"Our landlord turns off the heat on weekends, so we sprang for an electric kettle," said Eric Heist, 49, a founder of both galleries, as a space heater ticked in the corner.
We sprang for an over-the-water bungalow that had especially good views of the harbor and the thick green hills in the distance, but one night at about 3 a.m. the tide came sloshing in so loudly and violently beneath the floorboards that I bolted awake, thinking we were about to capsize in our bed.
We don't think we'll need it, but boy will our loved ones be happy that we sprung for it.
My husband spent a chunk of the year between jobs, we sprang for some much-needed (and costly) home improvements and, you might have heard, the newspaper business has fallen on tough times.
We were looking forward to going north, to Mexico, where we would spring for a real hotel and a little luxury by way of compensation for all the rough — but illuminating — living we'd been doing.
Yes, we did spring for a taxi or two (or three).
Losing our daughter left us broken; and now we had to figure out how much it would cost to cremate our baby, decide if we wanted to spring for the more expensive urn.
(We decided to use a Linksys network card but it refused to work with an AMD K6-processor on our desktop, so we had to spring for a 3Com card which worked just fine).
KT and I have applied for a variety of jobs, but we waited all spring for word from the Census Bureau.
This weekend, we even sprung for the butler service.
