Tom Henske makes total cents.
That’s not a typo.
It Makes Total Cents is the name of Tom Henske’s podcast.
Now in its fourth season as a Westport Library Verso Studios production, the dynamic, well-respected and always-on-the-money Westport financial expert — and an impressive array of guests — teach youngsters (and their parents, guardians, and grandparents) everything they need to know about financial literacy.
This year, the podcast will include video. That makes a lot of cents.
The first episode features University of Virginia professor Chuck Howard discussing expense prediction bias. Future episodes will focus on compound interest, borrowing and credit, college savings and more.
Episodes go live biweekly. They’re available on the Total Cents YouTube channel, plus Amazon, Apple and Spotify. All episodes and channels can be accessed through The Westport Library Community Partnership Podcasts page.
The podcast is an extension of the Total Cents blog, which includes conversation guides and e-news updates taken from Henske’s book, “It Makes Total Cents: 12 Conversations to Change Your Child’s Financial Future.”
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Alert, and warm, “06880” reader Jonathan Berg writes:
“This is no longer any of my business, as my last kid graduated from Staples last year.
“But I just drove past the school bus stop. There’s a wind chill of 16 degrees right now.
“I know from my kids that no one uses lockers, and they don’t want to drag a coat around all day.
“So they’re out there waiting for the bus in 16 degrees with no coat on, shivering.
“There’s a lot of sickness going around. I would think kids are going to get sicker out there every morning. I don’t really have a solution here, other than maybe drive your kids to school when it’s this cold if you can.
“Just a thought from a habitually concerned father.”
I don’t have kids, so I’m just a habitually concerned random guy. But here’s another solution: Tell your kid to wear a coat, toss it randomly in the cafeteria along with all the sports equipment and other stuff kids leave there, then pick it up at the end of the day.
Or else jog in place until the bus comes.
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The next Downtown Plan Implementation Committee public meeting is Thursday, January 23 (8:30 a.m., Town Hall Room 201/201A). 1
The agenda includes parking lots reinvention, the downtown design Master Plan, and parking study strategy presentation and review.
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Brand Nu Apparel popped up last summer, on Post Road West. Marcello DeAguero’s temporary shop offered athletic wear and street wear, “designed for creators of all kinds — athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, and dreamers.”
Now Marcello has taken the next step: a long-term retail location in Westport. Brand Nu Apparel is now open at 877 Post Road East (the building between Pizza Lyfe and the Sherwood Diner). Click here for details.
Brand Nu Apparel
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The Westport Business Networking International chapter’s next Visitor’s Day is January 23 (United Methodist Church, 7 a.m.; networking, business meeting, coffee and homemade baked goods).
Westport BNI has 55 members, with only 1 per category. Classifications available now include estate attorney, residential contractor, salon, restaurant, hotel, home security, personal trainer, photographer, caterer or bakery, commercial real estate, florist, event/wedding planner, travel/tour operator, automotive repair, roofer, nutritionist, physical therapy, promotional products and more.
In the past year, the group has passed over $3.3 million in closed business.
All visitors must pre-register. Contact Matthew Cummings of M&T Bank at (mcummings2@mtb.com) to sign up in advance. Click here for the BNI website.
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The holidays are over. But it’s never too late to give a wreath
Wreathing for Community‘s latest gift is Bridgeport’s Thomas Merton Family Center.
The wreath was created by Montira Earley, in collaboration with Neighbors & Newcomers of Westport, with donations from area residents.
The Merton Center is important to Montira, so she nominated it as a recipient.
From left: Amanda Figueroa-Camilo and Montira Earley, with the Merton Center wreath.
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There’s always something new at Compo Beach — and in the sky above it.
Today’s “Westport … Naturally” feature was captured there by Mark Sikorski.
(Photo/Mary Sikorski)
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And finally … in honor of Tom Henske’s “Total Sense” podcast (above):
(Speaking of money … you know the drill. Please click here to support your hyper-local blog. You’ll help the world go ’round. Thank you!)
Mary Sikorski picture is amazing.
these downtown meetings, scheduled during the day, ???? why? some evening meetings? meetings recorded and posted? minutes taken and posted? a barrier.
The struggle is REAL when it comes to teens and coats… I seriously don’t get the desire to freeze. I have 2 high school students and despite our best efforts, they refuse to wear them. I figure, if they are really suffering, they will wear their coats… they will also smarten up eventually.
Back in the day (as Dan well remembers), Staples consisted of 8 or 9 separate buildings connected only by covered walkways, and we all wore and carried coats or jackets as appropriate for the weather. (The lockers were pretty much ignored, as they were assigned near our “home-rooms” which we visited only once in the middle of each day to take the official “attendance” for the day.) We didn’t freeze while changing classes on cold days, though there were a few “heat days” when the inadequately-buried steam pipes between the buildings froze and they had to close the school!
A little bit of period trivia (I just completed a “dementia cognition test” (fully covered by Medicare) I PASSED!!!!)
Staples’ 1958 building design was advocated by the “pushy” parents of that era because “our kids are SO much brighter” it’s a great idea to give them “early exposure” to the challenges they’ll face when they go to college (like frostbite).
But telling the superintendent who to hire and who to fire was “a bridge too far”, even for them.
HEY!!! Westport PARENTS!!!
LEAVE SCARICE ALONE!!!!
How could you forget ABBA?
(Money, Money, Money)
“There’s nothing going on but the rent. If you want to be with me, got to get a J-O-B”
Re: teens and jackets. Back in the early ’80s, while the girls obsessed over designer jeans, the boys obsessed over CB Sports ski jackets. It was *essential* to own one. We wore them all day long and showed them off with pride. I really had to lay it on thick with my mother to get her to cough up the money for that purchase!