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How would you like to live here?
It doesn't have much of a yard.
It's good to have a daughter that works at Walmart, because if I'm paying cash and she's with me, I can use her discount. They don't get a discount on everything (food is excluded), but it adds up on non-food items. Today the discount was $5.80. I'd have to use quite a few coupons to save that much, so it's worth it. I waited for her to get off work and she checked out with me so I could get the discount. Actually only employees and spouses are supposed to use it, so we can't use it with my check card. Where it comes in handy is on expensive stuff, like in the garden department. Round-Up is not cheap.
She's heartbroken....Manuel is on vacation this week 
After I got home, I decided I'd take Sandy out in the front yard for a while. Beth played with her some. Then we brought Trouble out and let him run, and I put Pepper on the leash around a post. She'll run off if she's not on the leash. The kids across the street started barking at her to get her barking. It worked. She'll bark at her own shadow. So that set off the 3 dogs in the back yard.
So much to do....so little time. I have some errands to run - post office and grocery store. I've been vaccuuming this morning, which is making me sneeze my head off. Steve just came home for lunch and Beth should be here in a little while. Then Rachael is coming over. This is her day off, so she's out running errands, too.
One of the reasons they are moving is the rent was going up quite a bit. There are other, newer, much nicer complexes for the same rent or less than the new rent. They've been doing a lot of maintenance work at the complex - rebuilding balconies, landscaping, remodeling apartments. The one they have was just remodeled before they moved in. But the work was never finished and they've been living there 5-1/2 months. The maitenance people are incompetent. Brandon had to tell the AC guy how to fix the AC. One of the maintenance men broke some of their dishes while fixing plumbing under the sink.
But the apartment complex seems to delight in making stupid rules for everybody to follow, and they are tired of it. Brandon and Rachael have 3 balconies - one at their front door and one off each bedroom's sliding glass door. They are not allowed to put anything on the balconies. They cannot have any patio furniture on them. Our question is, "What are they for, then? Decoration?" We understand not getting to use their grill on them. I'm sure that's pretty standard fire code everywhere. But they cannot even have it sitting on the balcony. It's not ugly....it's a brand new stainless steel grill with a cover over it.
They do have some rebels over there. There is one woman who set a blue patio chair on her balcony after they said not to.  Lots of people have had furniture out on them. It makes it easier to sit down and enjoy the balcony  Otherwise, people would have to stand while watching the football game at the stadium next door.
So they'll be moving in June. They'll be able to get all their debt paid off by January. Then they'll be saving for a house. The header on Brandon's Xanga says, "Debt is dumb, cash is king, and the paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice." I will be so glad if they can get a house without having a huge debt to pay. We know what it is like to struggle and I don't want them to have to do that. I'm glad they are learning from this financial management course while they are still young. Beth is, too.
I'll be around to see everybody after I get back.
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TRIPLES with EMMA
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| | Posted 4/30/2007 12:47 PM - 4 views - 9 comments
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