May 2023

Shopping for upholstery

Shopping for upholstery I stopped over my girlfriend’s house one day and a little while into our visit she asked me if I would like to accompany her to the upholstery store. Well I really didn’t want to go to the upholstery store however I did want to spend time with my girlfriend so I […]

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Working part-time?

I heard on the radio this morning that some people are working part-time jobs in addition to their full-time job because costs of well, just about everything, have risen due to the pandemic.   What? Work more hours? Sacrifice my physical and mental health just to make ends meet? I don’t think so! I am

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The story of the night guard

I was at my semi-annual teeth cleaning appointment some years back and the hygienist asked “are you aware that you grind your teeth?” “Hum? I was not aware that I did this?” I thought to myself and then said aloud. She suggested that perhaps I was a teeth grinder as I slept. So she recommended

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Being frugal vs. being cheap

There’s a difference between being cheap and being frugal. My mother was cheap. She bought things because they were cheap (I was going to say inexpensive but a lot of things were just cheap). There was a lot of “junk” in her house. I sorta get it. We did not have a lot of money

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