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  • Rotten Dead People Owe Babci

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    Tweet A few posts ago, I revealed that we are going to start house hunting in an effort towards implementing “Operation Live with Babci.” The last few weekends have been great fun. We’ve seen at least 2 dozen homes and driven past about 30 more and even have a few favorites.  The problem is that…

  • Risk Taking – Going Back into Debt

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    Tweet During my last Coffee Talk, I spoke about how one of my downfalls was my conservative nature when it comes to spending and investing.  Given the stock market scares me and I already do most of my retirement there, I was looking for an outlet for the extra cash we’ve been saving.   Between wanting…

  • Babci on Remodeling: Do 1 Room per Year

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    Tweet The 3 family house my parents bought in the 1970’s was $10,000.  They paid cash for it and it was near condemned.  The 3rd floor apartment had  a toilet right smack in the middle of the kitchen where the sink was supposed to be and it had a ladder to access the 3rd floor…

  • Cutting Babci’s Hair with Dog Clippers

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    Tweet Babci’s hair has been a constant source of discontent ever since she moved to my town 7 years ago. No matter where I take her, she finds fault in the hair salons I take her.  The last time she was due for a haircut, she decided that hair dressers didn’t know how to cut…

  • Some Materialism is Good For You

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    Tweet On this blog, I make Babci sound like some kind of super granny.  She is awesome that’s for sure, but there are some things about her simple living philosophy that make me go absolutely bananas.   As I analyze why Babci would do some of the things that press my hot buttons, I try to…

  • Returning Cabbages

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    Tweet So we’re at the farmer’s market a few weeks ago and it is Krauting Season.  This means that we usually draw a big crowd at the farmer’s market.  People saw us filling up pillowcase after pillowcase of cabbages and couldn’t help but ask..what does one do with 200 pounds of cabbage?  A couple of…

  • Babci Doesn’t Own Measuring Cups

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    Tweet Babci doesn’t own measuring cups or spoons for that matter.  One of the things that I often hear from my friends is this.  Babci is such a great cook.  You should write down all her old world recipes so they don’t get lost.  To which I respond: “Recipe?  What is this strange word you…

  • Babci on Death

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    Tweet Today was a rather odd and sad day for me.  At about 9:30 in the morning, my little cul de sac was overrun with police cruisers, fire trucks and ambulances.   We had a relatively new neighbor move into our little pine covered street and I just found out she died sometime in the last…

  • Freaky Home Remedies and Ask Babci

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    Tweet Babci talks a lot.  In fact, she talks non-stop when I’m around her.  I understand why she does that.  She grew up with a dozen people in her house and now it’s just her, so whenever I come over she feels like she needs to get all her talking in to make up for…

  • Babci does have her mushrooming standards

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    Tweet I did another quick mushrooming drive-by with Babci last night.   If you read this week’s article, you probably laughed that she was willing to have me risk life and limb to jump over an electric fence to grab a few mushrooms.  I wouldn’t and she’s still bitter about it.   As we were driving through…