My wife says she’s not sure if leasing is the best option for us.  She doesn’t like the idea that at the end of the lease agreement, we don’t end up owning the car.  She doesn’t think it is a good investment.  But, I like driving new cars!  So we need to discuss this out between us.  She says that put a lot of miles on our cars every year, and the mileage overage charges could really hurt us a lot.  But, to humor my sister-in-law and me, we have been checking out leasing a car.

From time to time we find ourselves looking at interior design magazines and webpages, and today we were looking at an interior design webpage that had a link to a partner webpage that was talking about decorating with hand-me-down furniture. Basically it was an article about how a handful of designers love some old furnishings that bring back special memories of people that gave them the item. The article was in slide-show form and had several pictures of the items in question. One of the items was of an irregularly shaped coffee table that my wife liked so much that she asked me if I could try to create a similar table for our family room. I suggested that she put that on her “honey do” list and I’d see what I could do.

Fortunately, another person I knew, a relative, had a ton of these patches and was able to give me a couple of dozen extras. As you know; everything is expensive today! I didn’t tell the doctor that I was putting two on a day! But I did mention the lasting effect or lack thereof, he scratched his head for a second and said “I’ve got something new, I guarantee you’ll like these, they do work!” And he gave me a sample.

I tried them they really did work good! They are supposed to last for up to 12 hours then you throw it away. It doesn’t say that you can or can’t put another one on, it just says remove after 12 hours. I don’t really care; because I’m getting 8 hours out of this patch and I’m quite satisfied with the exception of the price! They are extremely expensive! And nobody has any extra ones of these!

When I tell people down here about that laptop program for the kids in Maine I’m told that the kids down here don’t need them because there are plenty of computers in the school already. That’s all well and good, but the laptops were taken to and from home so that the kids did not have to lug tons of textbooks home, and they could do their homework on their laptops. Many kids around here are from families that cannot afford to have a computer at home for the kids to work on. So I think that as much as people like to think that this is a progressive state, I have to disagree on that point.

As most people, my parents have acquired way too much stuff. Easy to do when you have lived in the same house for over 50 years together, while raising a large family and now housing grandchildren. That house has provided shelter while my mother prepared the food and has always been a safe haven to many family members through out the years and they have a real need to do a big sweep of the place and start using some good quality Steel Storage Sheds. It’s all good.