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Alright, I’ll admit it, I’m a nerd and a fan of Star Wars…
This week I found a free Star Wars audio book that I have been listening to while painting the ceilings under our house. I’ve actually found it to be really good to listen to an audio book while painting.
You can download the free [...]

A few weekends ago I decided that we needed to add some extra storage in our garage. There are some fancy and expensive options available at Bunnings or places like Howards Storage World for storage and shelving solutions for the garage. Since I was after a simple shelf I figured that I should be able [...]

There is a great discussion going on right now at Get Rich Slowly about how to handle a door-to-door salesman.
Here are my favourite 7 suggestions of how to handle a door-to-door salesman:

Don’t Answer the Door and Definitely Don’t let them Inside
No Soliciting and No Trespassing Signs
Just tell them “No, not interested” and close the door
Tell [...]

When I wrote about our last garage sale here in Townsville I mentioned Community Garage Sales (also known as street garage sales).
In Calgary there used to be one weekend a year when the whole community would hold their garage sales. It worked really well as everyone knew that on this particular weekend you could head [...]