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Doctor’s Visit:
$100
Chest X-Rays Illustrating You Have Pneumonia:
$350
Co-pay for Antibiotics:
$5.00
Doctor’s Visit For Your Wife:
$100
Chest X-Rays Illustrating She Now Has Pneumonia:
$350
Pneumonia Resistant Antibiotics:
$5.00
Emergency Room Visit:
$400
Chest X-Rays Illustrating Her Pneumonia Has Spread:
$350
E.R Treatment (I.V. Antibiotics, Fluids, Inhaler Treatment, Blood Cultures):
$750
Combination Of Two “Powerful” Antibiotic Courses:
$10.00
Missed Work:
Um . . . $100/day (I think)
Knowing Your Supervisor And Colleagues Support You […]

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Periodically we’ll get a wasp in the house. You know how it is.
One moment, you’re snacking on toast with peanut butter and chocolate chips, and the next, all hell breaks loose because a wasp starts dive-bombing random targets around the room.
The toast? Fuggetaboutit. One eye’s on the wasp, the other, frantically […]

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Remember the joys of childhood?

Of uninhimited creation?

Of starting with nothing but an idea?

And creating something wonderful?

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From a consumer’s perspective, a garage sale is a great way to save money. Over the years, we’ve easily saved thousands of dollars on clothes and children’s books and toys.
Hosting a garage sale yourself is a great way to earn some extra cash. It’s not uncommon for a good sale to rake in […]

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If you’ve read my About page, you know one of the major challenges we’ve had as a family has been money. I’ll never regret the decision we made to focus on our family. But I’m not going to lie to you. Transitioning from no kids with a dual income, to two kids […]

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Our girls have a routine and checklist that they work through every night before bed. One of the things on the list is to get out the clothes that they are going to wear in the morning. It’s a good routine. The girls ask what the weather is going to be like […]

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How’s That Connection?
Managing relationships, is kind of like using a cell phone.
People who frequently do know where to get the best connection– where the signal is clearest–and they know where it’s not. An avid cell user can even tell you what the reception will be like without even turning the phone on. Geography, geology, […]

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. . .like maybe this guy.
Because if you’re not, I’ll guarentee you couldn’t care less. Only read this if you’re absolutely sure you have nothing better to do.
Come to think of it, even if you are a VLAR (very loyal and alert reader), you probably don’t care about what’s to follow. In fact […]

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Direct Buy and the Magic of Lead Generation
I don’t know how many times I’d seen it. That chipper blond, the irritatingly giddy couples explaining how much money they’ve saved, the irrefutable logic of being able to purchase things directly from manufacturers, avoiding all those costly markups.
If you’ve seen the infomercial, you know what I’m […]

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Pooh was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of something else, and when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking.
“Hallo!” said Piglet, “what are you doing?”
“Hunting,” said Pooh.
“Hunting what?”
“Tracking something,” said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
“Tracking what?” said Piglet, coming closer.
“That’s just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?”
“What do you […]

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