CELEBRATING IS OVER Issue 01

NOW IT’S TIME TO WORK, YUK!!! Post of the 03 Jan 08

Diary published weekly since 2001
Read this weeks FULL Diary on line HERE

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TIPS THIS WEEK

I received this email a while ago but it is especially appropriate during the start of a New Year. Not sure who shared it with me, but it is kinda cute… a look at the ‘LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE’.

COMMENTS MADE IN THE YEAR 1955 - 54 years ago!!
*** 'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.'
*** 'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.'
*** 'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous. NOTE: I did quit when they went to $.35 cents a pack in 1963.
*** 'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?'
*** 'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.'
*** 'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost $.29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.'
*** 'Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail haircuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.'
*** 'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in ‘Gone With The Wind’, it seems every new movie has HELL or DAMN in it.’
*** 'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call ‘astronauts’ preparing for it down in Texas '
*** 'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.'
*** 'I never thought I'd see the day that all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.'
*** 'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.'
*** 'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.'
*** 'Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more - Hollywood stars get divorced at the drop of a hat.'
*** 'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.' *** 'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Gov’t takes half our income in taxes’. *** 'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they’ll ever catch on.'
*** 'There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha any more for a weekend -- it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'
*** 'No one can afford to be sick any more; at $35.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'
*** 'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it!'

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Cathy shared these tips a while ago – I have NOT tested any…
*** Honey remedy for SKIN BLEMISHES… cover blemish with a dab of honey and place a Band-Aid over it. Honey kills the bacteria, keeps the skin sterile, and speeds healing. Works overnight.
*** Cleaning liquid that doubles as BUG KILLER… if menacing bees, wasps, hornets, or yellow jackets are a pest and you can't find the insecticide, try a spray of Formula 409. Insects drop to the ground instantly.
*** Hunt's Tomato Paste BOIL CURE... cover the boil with Hunt's Tomato Paste as a compress. The acids from the tomatoes soothe the pain and bring the boil to a head.
*** Vinegar to HEAL BRUISES... soak a cotton ball in white vinegar and apply it to the bruise for 1 hour. The vinegar reduces the blueness and speeds up the healing process.

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PROMOS THIS WEEK

This week’s RV Travel newsletter featured many positive tips and hints – To read more of the good, bad and ugly in the RV Life, go HERE and click on ‘current newsletter’.

Must read info to me is included below…
*** A short video about CHOOSING AN RV GENERATOR by Mark Polk of RV Education.com. See this Video Tip as well as several others.
*** RENT A SMALL NEW RV for as low as $ 24. – p/night from Cruise America beginning in March – worth a look.
*** Want to supplement your travels with WORKAMING? Take a look at a new online 6-session workshop – Workamping 101. Details HERE…
*** MAINTENANCE for RV STEPS – HERE both electric and manual.
*** A new device helps drive your RV in small lanes without hitting or scraping something. Wish John had one in place on the bridge crossing into the USA last Oct when the truck pushed us over. The RV Toy Outlet has the 'LANE SEEKER' on sale for $9.95 (reg $49.95). It looks like a neat accessory that we are considering. See video HERE…
*** I am late in posting the RV SHOW SCHEDULE for the 2009. Until I do you can read them all HERE… This is a super time to buy a new RV!
*** This story was in my RV Alerts this week as well as in the RV Travel.com newsletter. NUWA is no longer going to making ‘HitchHiker, Snowbird, Stow-A-Wa 5th Wheels’. The company stresses it is NOT going bankrupt and will continue to meet warranty claims of its customers. It will complete units in progress and keep the ‘Service Center’ open until at least 2010.

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Last week I provided a link to a Free ‘HOW TO BEAT RECESSION E-BOOK’. Several readers sent me an email thanking me and telling me they enjoyed it - while others felt it was Spam. If you are enjoying it, that’s super – but if you downloaded it and don’t wish to receive more email from the author Michael Green - either ‘black-list’ him or ‘block’ his email. In Outlook Express I simply go to ‘Message’ and hit ‘Block Sender’. It still comes in, but it goes directly to your ‘delete’ folder. At first look, the ebook looked valuable – although the majority were happy, some were upset that I shared the link. I will be more careful what I pass on in the future. If I offended anyone I apologize.