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Front Yard Landscaping: Spring Clean Up!

Family Balance Sheet

We spent the past weekend yanking weeds, trimming the edges, spreading mulch, and sprucing up our front yard landscaping. In place of wood chips, we buy leaf compost from our township. It has been a problem area ever since we re-did our landscaping in 2007. While plants in other areas of the landscape have flourished.

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Hunt For Happiness Week

Shereen Travels Cheap

It helps you appreciate different things - If you feel like you don't love where you live, or even if you do, traveling to a different landscape can help you appreciate your home city more, but also enjoy new weather and scenery.

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4 Crazy Hard Things To Check On When Buying a Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You probably should be buying your home for the long term. will save you the inconvenience of slicing through them while putting in new landscaping (this actually happened to us). Road and highway changes, population density, new sewer facilities, and development licenses granted all mean more traffic, more fees and more noise.

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Book Nook - Opening Closed Doors: The Story of Josie C. Murray

Motherhood Moments

Buy from brandylanepublishers.com About the Author Award-winning writer Linda Harris Sittig was born in New York City, raised in northern New Jersey, and put down her adult roots in Virginia. With the use of chalk pastels, her artwork mainly consists of portraits and landscapes created in traditional art style.

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Don’t be a Buy-It-New Snob

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Are you a ‘buy it new’ snob – one of those people who shudder at the thought of using someone else’s cast off stuff? After 10 years of not having enough money to buy new things, I found my dream job and started getting high pay. I paid hundreds for a slightly better model at Best Buy years ago.

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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

Family Balance Sheet

Find a free court, borrow or buy rackets and balls, and go play some tennis. Gardening and Landscaping: Summer is also a time to garden, rejuvenate your landscape, and enjoy an adult beverage in your cozy backyard. Front-Yard Landscaping: 15 Tips To Help You Design Your Landscape and Save Money.

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Why You Should Celebrate St. Patrick's Day In Ireland

Shereen Travels Cheap

Take a trip through the gift shop and buy a nice bottle for the rest of your trip or send some home for you, family or friends. You can volunteer to do a taste-test, and if you are chosen it includes 3 Irish whiskeys, a Scotch whiskey and an American Whiskey and then a fancy diploma saying you took the taste test.

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