10/29/2009
The last time I gave my teenage son my credit card to do some shopping online, he bought some offensive t shirts. I could not believe that he thought I would be alright with that, but apparently he did. When they arrived on our doorstep, I had no idea what was in the box but was curious so I opened it. When I pulled the offensive t shirts out, one by one, I was just shocked.
I put all of the t shirts back in the box and sealed it back up. When my son got home from school, he told me that he was excited to see that his funny shirts had arrived. I asked him to show me his funny shirts and his face went white. I sat there as he pulled them back out of the box that I had already opened earlier. He was not laughing at the t shirts, since I was not very happy with them.
Needless to say, all of the so called funny shirts went back and my son is not allowed to order anything offline unless one of his parents approve it first. He has decided to just start shopping back at the mall, where I know they do not sell offensive t shirts.
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10/13/2009
I am really psyched about the new store opening at the mall. I heard that they are going to be selling funny t shirts. They are also going to have a back room where they have adult t shirts. I am finally old enough to go into the back room of any store, and I plan on doing it. I am not sure if I am going to buy any adult t shirts or not, but just knowing that I can may be enough.
I have always worn funny t shirts ever since I could get myself dressed. I would pick them out of all the other clothes in the store and my mother never told me no because she believed in expressing yourself. I even dabbled a little bit with making my own funny t shirts with some plain pocket T’s and some fabric paint.
I sold them to my friends in middle school and tried to come up with creative ideas so that they would keep coming back for more. I think that in the two years that I made and sold my own funny t shirts, I must have made about two thousand dollars profit. I wish that I would have stuck with it, it might have been something that could have been really big.
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When we decided to tear off our old wooden deck and replace it with one of those new composite decks, we were not sure which Minnesota composite decks company to hire. I had seen a few different ones that had worked in our neighborhood before but was not sure who had done the best job. I decided to ask a few of the neighbors and get their opinion.
I found out that the Minnesota composite decks company that had no complaints from the family that had used them had also done some water damage repair for them too. I guess that they do more than decks. I guess that it would be nice to have a company do work for us, that is not limited to just one area. That way if I would need them for anything else around the house, they could do it.
I was hoping that I would never need them for water damage repair but we had thought we may be adding on an additional room for my mother to use, sometime in the next year. If this Minnesota composite decks company could do the deck and the additional room that would be great. It would also save me some time from calling other contractors to do the work.
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10/11/2009
I found some term life insurance rates on a website advertisement. I really was just curious if they were accurate or not. I thought that they may have been putting them low on the ad, just to get people to click on it. I decided that it did not hurt to see what the term life insurance rates would be for my wife and me. I was shocked to find out that we could really afford to purchase enough life insurance to pay off all of our debt, and cover our funeral costs if something happened to us.
My father had not ever checked into getting no medical term life insurance and when he passed away, it was very difficult for us kids to take care of his estate and pay for all of the hospital and funeral bills. We had to get his house sold very quickly and then pay for everything else from the proceeds from the sale. I think that we just covered everything.
If my father had planned ahead, he would have gotten no medical term life insurance and made sure that all of his affairs were in order prior to him passing on. I do not want to leave any kind of issues for my children to have to deal with when I pass on. I am getting term life insurance this week and planning for anything that may come my way.
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