Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

There is a Gremlin in our house.

Ever since the girls left for college, it hasn’t been hard placing blame when lights in the house are left on, or doors left open, or certain food items you wee saving in the refrigerator to eat later suddenly went missing.

Or at least that’s what we thought at first.

It was amazing how much money my wife and I saved on water bills, electricity, and the need to buy paper towels and toilet paper. So even though we had massive tuition bills to pay coming from Madison, the regular household was much easier to run.

But lately that has been changing again...