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The Middle-Aged Nesting Instinct
I AM DEFINITELY NESTING. What I should be doing is organising the insidiously boring stuff involved with a house-move, like the utility connections (yawn!), but all I can think about is how I am going to furnish my new little apartment. I should be working too, but I keep getting distracted by Ikea and Freedom…
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Those Annoying and Expensive Online Shopping Mistakes
Now you know that I think that shopping is better than sex. The headquarters of eBay in San Jose, California. Photographed on August 5, 2006 by user Coolcaesar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) And you also probably know by now that I’ve been a tad skeptical of the whole on-line shopping movement since its inception. It’s hard…
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Downsizing Your Dysfunctional Home
3DMLW APartment example (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So, our big news this week is that we’re moving house AGAIN. We’re staying in the ‘safety zone’, which is how Kurt describes our suburb, but we’re taking a massive leap into the unknown for dysfunctionals, and downsizing prematurely to an apartment. There are many reasons for this move,…
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