Archive for February, 2007
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
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I know these exist, but for whatever reason in my brain I forget about them when it happens to me. We live in a new neighborhood so last summer we got person after person after person trying to sell us home alarm systems. Of course after they would leave, I would feel stupid because what [...]
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
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I am 99% sure we have a handyman to do our laundry list of items for the other house. He is a good friend and helped us work on other projects when we still lived in the house. The only downfall is his moving in a couple of weeks. But hopefully we can get quite [...]
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
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One of the tips (that is quite obvious once I heard the words) as to fixing up your new home (new as in brand new construction) is to change out the fixtures. It is a great idea since up and down your street you can probably guess that everyone has the exact same stuff that [...]
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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I’ve mentioned before that we had friends help installing flooring and also had them help with other diy projects around the house. We have a handful of friends on our street and have talked about them helping us put up a fence when the time comes. I love having friends available to help. If we [...]
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
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I’ve been thinking of a way to keep better track of our rental – especially since we will most likely rent this house out when we leave. I’ve read that we need to use a separate bank account for each rental which we already do. I will have to think of what to do with [...]
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
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The payment for my DH’s credit card has cleared and it has a zero balance. That will be the last time we ever use a tax return (or any other large amount of money) to pay it off. He was carrying the card in his wallet but took it out and put it in his [...]
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
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There is a new show on DIY called Sweat Equity. I’ve recorded a couple of the shows and love what they are doing. The show is about a couple who wants to up the equity in their home by upgrading some part of the home. A realtor is brought in at the beginning of the [...]
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
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Let’s get back to talking about PayPerPost for a minute ~ or rather, the money made by being a Postie and including sponsored blog posts with my writing. I have been actively involved with PayPerPost since the end of October 2006. To join PPP, your blog must be 90 days old and you must regularly [...]
Friday, February 16th, 2007
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I talked to my baby brother earlier this week and he shared his purchase of a new vehicle for his family. They had a car that suited them – it was two door and he and his wife have two children. My sister in law stays home with the kids and one is in school. [...]
Friday, February 16th, 2007
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