No one has good credit anymore
I went to a business meeting earlier this week. The guest speaker was a realtor who was talking about the current housing market. He was talking about how this was a good time to buy, or a good time to rent out an existing property. This is not a good time to sell! He said that the way things are right now, houses could be on the market for up to twenty years before they sell! I don’t know, maybe I should put my house on the market now! I might want to actually sell it in twenty years!
He was talking about how almost no one has good credit anymore. That got me to thinking about one of my aunts who has been talking about getting more information about credit repair. She told me that she has been getting a lot of telephone calls from a credit repair service. Seems that for some reason they’ve been calling her every day, telling her that they can help to fix credit scores and they’ve been trying to get her to sign up for their service. She’s decided to get a copy of her free credit report before doing anything else.
Gimme five!
An Improv Everywhere scene – giving out high fives on a busy escalator! I’d love to do an Improv stunt someday!
Personalization
I enjoy driving around different neighborhoods and seeing the different address signs that people use to personalize their road frontage. There are so many different types of address plaques in use. Sometimes I’ll see an address plaque that really tickles my fancy – maybe one that has a fancy image of a deer or a tractor on it. I’ve been thinking about buying a new address sign for the farm. Seems that the old one got run over by someone a few days ago. I don’t know if it was a reckless driver, a drunk driver, or a farm machine that wiped it out, but it was seriously damaged and needs to be replaced.
Maybe I sould just get one that mounts to the top of our mailbox instead of one that stands independently on the opposite side of the driveway. I always did have my concerns about whether it was a good idea to have a stand=alone sign out there or not. I would surmise that it was NOT a good idea, since it has been damaged!
Happy birthday Ted!
Too funny!
Multi-purpose
I really admire people who can multi-purpose items. For example, my cousin spent a lot of time and money baby proofing her house when she started having kids. She bought several baby gates to keep the kids out of places where they didn’t want them to go, and put child safety locks on their kitchen cabinets and appliances. I used to tease her about how much her house had changed from her “pre-baby” times to her “after-baby” times. There was a major change!
I figured that once her children had grown up enough that she no longer needed to use most of those things, I found that she still used many of the safety items to keep her pets out of trouble. I thought that was pretty clever of her to multi-purpose those things. For example, the baby gates now confine the dogs to the kitchen area when she goes out, so they don’t tear up the rest of the house and get into trouble. She sure knows how to get the most bang for her buck!