housewife on July 30th, 2008

For the month of August, we are going to cut out any unnecessary spending. Of course, this scares this shop-a-holic, believer in retail therapy to death. But I’m hoping that this will help us keep more of our hard-earned money. I’m an impulse buyer but only on items under $10. If an item is $15, [...]

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housewife on July 25th, 2008

Sometimes I wonder just how I made it through a day without being able to search for something on the Internet. How did I find answers? I guess I just lived in blissful ignorance!
I can’t imagine not being able to look up information like bug bites, diaper rashes, or even Chicago personal injury lawyers. Ok, [...]

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housewife on July 25th, 2008

Probably the most stolen office supply is pens. They just don’t walk off your desk but are usually ‘borrowed’ by a co-worker who then proceeds not to return it. I’ve worked in some offices where people actually taped their name to their pens.
I never went to such extremes but I do have a few [...]

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housewife on July 25th, 2008

I bought Rae a golf set a few months ago. It naturally broke the day we bought it. I know it wasn’t like buying Cobra golf clubs but still I would have thought that they would have lasted longer than a few hours.
She hasn’t really played with it since we got it. I just knew [...]

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housewife on July 25th, 2008

After weeks of searching, I found Wii Fit at our local Wal-Mart! I was so excited to get it home to play. Now I can stop looking at Ephedrasil Hardcore and other dieting pills since now I have Wii Fit.
I might have a lot of faith in Wii Fit to help me lose weight, [...]

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housewife on July 24th, 2008

I have been miserable this past week. We have reached triple digits and it is unbearable. August will be worse than this. Some relief from the heat would be nice.
I would rather seek out foreclosure help than deal with these hot temps. The house does not cool off until about 6pm. That’s the trouble with [...]

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housewife on July 20th, 2008

Wanting to block the sun from coming through your windows and find that the mini-blinds aren’t getting the job done? Well, I had posted about using aluminum foil on windows. While it works well, it’s not an option for some people because of where they live. We have it on our back windows where we [...]

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housewife on July 18th, 2008

Country living is great but services really do lack. We really have only one option for broadband and that’s satellite Internet. It’s OK but definitely not the same experience as DSL or cable. It is much better than dial-up!
I keep hoping that one day we’ll have DSL or cable out this way but nothing so [...]

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housewife on July 13th, 2008

For us to go anywhere, we have to plan and then do some more planning. When we first got married we had looked into some different Vegas vacations ideas. 13 years later, we have yet to make it to Vegas. So if we plan to ever make it to Vegas or anywhere, then we need [...]

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housewife on July 13th, 2008

Our next game console will be an Xbox 360 mainly because of Rock Band 2. My nephew recently got a playstation 3 that really makes my husband want one. Of course, he also wants the 360, so we’ll have to do one at a time.
There’s more out for the 360 that we want to play [...]

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