As a non-watcher of the Price Is Right (because, you know, I work), I missed this until right now: Drew Carey lost 80 pounds! Good for him, although now he looks strikingly like my ex-boss, which slightly hampers my ability to find him funny.

Finders, eaters: There's organic, there's local, there's local-organic. Now: foraged, in which you search parks, woodlands and brush for edibles the same way you used to look for a four-leaf clover on the playground. So Logan reports. Will this trend catch on? Bundlers are divided: Mike, Angela, Moriah and Kate are worried about poisoning themselves, possible legal issues, and the sheer inefficiency/inconvenience. "Would it really save you money if you were spending half your waking hours foraging for food?" asked Moriah. Oh, but Emma loves a freshly-foraged fiddlehead fern (ok, yes, also a wee bit poisonous), and Bethany wondered if it would really be so bad if we had to work a little harder for our food than, say, yelling into a speaker and demanding dinner. She didn't put it that way, but that's what she meant.

Pick your poison - and pay tax on it: In what seems like a classic example of the prisoner's dilemma, most people agree on the need for taxes, yet they'll go out of their way to avoid them. See, for example, Presh's confession about dodging Chicago's 10.25 percent sales tax (do you blame him?), or Mike's recent post about the legislative loophole that allows shoppers to avoid paying sales tax on stuff they buy online. Feint and parry all you want, my savvy shoppers, but the states will get their money in the end. This awesome/geeky chart, posted by an anonymous Bundler, shows where the states get their money, and how they spend it. Not surprisingly, the low sales tax states get plenty of money from other places - property, income, licensing fees, etc. Are you really surprised?

Coming soon: Bundle swap mart: No, not really. But after reading about Emma's juicer-lust and Presh's juicer-neglect, and also Kate's recent post about top spending regrets, Logan's "Sell it or schlep it" series, and Moriah's suggestion that inter-city clothes sharing might be in our baggage-fee-avoiding futures, it makes me think there's a need for an efficient, more centralized swap meet. Or does this already exist, and is it called Craigslist?

Question of the day: What's next on your financial to-do list? (And did you do your last one?) Comment or tweet: #doit

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