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Build Memories and Spend Less on Your Grandchildren this Summer

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Hold a garage sale together. Carnival Savers web site has a lot of other ideas. These are just a few of many other types of productions you could do together. The complexity, length, composition and technical difficulty of the production will be a function of the child’s age and interest levels. Pick a duck.

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Save Taxes: Negotiate A Reduction in Your Assessed Value

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Improvements (such as a new garage or patio) or deterioration (such as hail damage to your siding). Find your counties government web site and review information on how it does assessments. What can cause assessed value to change? Real estate market movement. How do I know if assessed value has changed?

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Investment Methods

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I pick up a lot of them at garage sales for 25 cents to a $1. Greenblatt maintains a web site Magicformulainvesting.com. I’m always on the look out for investment books I haven’t yet read. One I obtained in that manner is “The Sound Mind Investing Handbook” by Austin Pryor. Technical analysis (chartists).

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Your Worst Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to ShrinkThatFootPrint web site, the average size of a newly built home in Canada in 2009 was one thousand nine hundred and forty eight square feet, and in the US it was two thousand one hundred sixty four square feet. No basement, no garage, no bathroom. There were two bedrooms, one living room and one kitchen.

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