We were deciding on what type of material to use to make a building on our property to use as an art studio. We wanted plenty of skylights for natural light, and we needed a garage door to get raw materials for sculpting and the finished pieces out. We looked at the cost for masonry [...]

I have always had a flair for understanding government rules. I have done my own taxes since I got my first full-time job at 18. I even helped my friends with their 1040-EZ returns back then. I was amazed how they could be confused by such a simple document. Then I found myself giving my [...]

My best friend from high school is getting divorced after only two years of marriage. She wants to move away from our hometown to make the divorce easier on herself so she won’t have any reminders of her ex-husband. I suggested that she move to Brandon, FL so we can live close to each other. [...]

My grandfather called me in a panic one night. It was 11:30pm, and he was crying and said that he didn’t understand why my grandmother had not come home yet. The thing that was scary about that is that she died over 20 years ago. Nothing I said that night helped him to believe me [...]

My husband started a new job not long ago, and he was really amazed at the software that they were using. The company employed nearly 20 people, yet he was the first one who spoke up about it. He did it in a way that was courteous, and he brought up a lot of good [...]

I have been flying for a by the seat of my pants at the company that I work for, and I don’t mind that one bit. I was lucky enough to get the job because my uncle hired me. Most places will not hire you when you don’t have a lot of experience. Since my [...]

My boss is really making a mess of my life, mostly because he can not seem to decide where I am going to work in the morning. He moved me to the other side of Ontario about three months ago and then almost immediately they decided that I was more vital where I had been. [...]

My boyfriend and I wanted to try some new things in the bedroom and we went right into anal region play. My boyfriend was surprised how dark everything looked back there. I thought it was funny at first, but then I started to think about how it might be better to use some anus bleach [...]

I used to have a membership at a gym. It was good, and I liked the variety of exercise machines offered, but I eventually got tired of paying for it. I wanted to have my own gym at home and the ability to work out whenever I wanted without paying any money beyond the cost [...]

When my parents retired, they decided to really enjoy themselves. They had spent years building their business together, so they did not have a lot of spare time to just enjoy life. They have always had a nice house, but it never had a swimming pool. They had an in ground pool installed about two [...]

In a former life, I used to be a plumber. It was pretty good money, more money than I would have thought when I got into the profession. However, I had to give it up after I began to develop arthritis in my hands. A plumber with arthritic hands is a rather useless individual, at [...]

I usually buy the generic versions of medication when I need them. The name brand varieties can often be too much for me to afford. The generic versions work just as well as the more expensive stuff, so I see no reason to pay more for the medication if I don’t have to do it. [...]

When I took a new position in charge of the school system’s audio visual department in the Midwest, I knew I needed to look for an av system design immediately. The department was a mess. Although they definitely had the room for it, there was no centralized audio visual set up. They had equipment spread [...]

I was placed in charge of the new computer section of the community center. The section was made so that people in the community could come and access the Internet and use the computers for various education and business tasks. The section is also used to teach the young and elderly about computers on the [...]

My mum decided she wanted to have a website. She has been in business for well over 20 years, and she has always resisted this move to modern times. I have tried to tell her so many times technology is her friend, but she just did not seem to understand that until recently. I knew [...]

Our anniversary is coming up in the middle of June and I have decided that it would be wise to go ahead and start planning for it. This is a big one, Jan and I have been married for ten years now and you obviously need to make a big deal out of it if [...]

I take great pride in keeping my home beautiful. I invested a great deal of money into keeping it in perfect shape. This my first home. Recently, a bad storm came through my city. It rained very hard. There was some minor flooding in my part of town. There was a lot of thunder and [...]

The marketing tactics of the past don’t really have the same weight as they used to in the days before the existence of the Internet. Exposure to the Internet has decreased the level of patience that customers have, because they want to have everything as quickly as possible. The longer a potential customer has to [...]

What do you get for someone who already has everything they could possibly want? Well, I don’t know if anyone truly has everything they could want, but I know quite a few people who really do not want for very much at all. My parents are two examples of this type of person, which makes [...]

Moving to Texas came with a very real surprise. Texas electricity rates are far better than they are in most of the country, a fact that would have had me moving down south had I been informed sooner! I’ve been doing everything that I can possibly do to save money as of late and moving [...]