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Lessons Learned From My Cats

It’s a new year!  Happy 2010!  With every new year comes plans, resolutions, promises, new goals and ideas.  This year is already nagging at me.  I’ve been feeling a strange unease for the last few months that is telling me that something needs to change.  Is it the usual stuff?  Do I need to quit [...]

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One Sweet Deal But For New Customers Only

And what a sweet deal it was.  Our local newspaper called us last weekend to offer us their “One Sweet Deal” promotion.  One full year of seven day per week home delivery of the newspaper for $108.90.  The caller also told my husband that the subscription price would be going up on Monday for everyone and we could lock [...]

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Selling on Ebay – Is Fixed Price with Free Shipping the Answer?

I decided today that I would suck it up and just work within the parameters of the convoluted rigamorole also known as eBay’s Best Match.  If you sell on eBay (or anywhere else really) you know that getting seen at the top of a search is what it’s all about.  Best Match is eBay’s way of matching the [...]

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Hillbillies, Saggy Boobs, a Witchy Wife, and Tied Up Kids

Any postcard that I’ve ever mailed was when I was on vacation and it was the standard “Greetings from West Bejeebus” type of card.  These humorous postcards are way more creative.  No need to be on vacation.  No need for a status report.  These cards are more of a long distance way to share a chuckle with [...]

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Buttons, Buttons, Who’s Got the Buttons? I Do

This week I’ve put all kinds of random finds up for auction.  I’ve got clip-on ties, more great vintage postcards – most about 100 years old – an antique Braille book, and … buttons.  Lots of buttons.  Hundreds of buttons. There are so many different kinds of metal buttons here.  Like these. And these too. Don’t [...]

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A Blackberry in My Hand is Worth Two Cows in the Field ???

  It is a rare sunny and gorgeous day in Central New York.  I had to get out the camera because these kind of days are so rare.      I think I see a few reeeeallly far away.  Guess they showed me! I got the last laugh though.  Look what we had for dessert?   [...]

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