And I think the house will do the job. It is not perfect by any means. The bathroom is placed in a most awkward place, between two of the bedrooms. There is no regular heat in the basement just a couple of space heater and there is some weird faux stone paneling on the porch. Also, lots of unfinished drywall in the basement rooms, but … for the price, it would be worth it to get in there and with time, spruce it up, or .. in a few years, rent this one and buy something else. The main thing is to stop throwing money away on rent and to have a place to live with my boy and my two girls. Then, maybe it can be the beginning of my new real estate empire. Mwahhahahaahhahaha.
jaguthin's Life List
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1. Bike from the top of New Hampshire back home.
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2. Buy a Zen Alarm Clock
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3. Finish building Shrimp Boat model.
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4. Finish building Hodad model.
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5. Finish building Covered Wagon model
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6. Post a rules of the house.
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7. Learn to juggle
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8. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
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9. Make homemade soda.
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10. Create "Who I am as a possibility" plaque
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11. Take voice lessons.
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12. Learn to dance
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13. Get my daughter back and raise her with love.
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14. Retire by 45
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15. Incorporate exercise into my daily life
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16. Remove "should" and "should have" from my working vocabulary. Encourage others to do the same.
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17. Buy and learn to play the strum stick.
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18. Visit Prague
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19. Save $2500
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20. Finish web page.
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21. Read every Kurt Vonnegut book there is.
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22. Get rid of everything in my life that I don't want or need.
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23. Clean off my bookshelf.
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24. Learn to speak and read German.
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25. Camp for a week by myself.
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26. Take the duck tour.
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27. Make 2009 relationship free.
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28. Hike all the Peaks of the White Mountains.
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29. Join toastmasters.
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30. Hike the Monadnock Sunappee Greenway trail.
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31. Clean out the basement.
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32. Make a walking stick.
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33. Draw!!!
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34. Grow bamboo!
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35. Make 250,000 dollars per year with my business.
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36. Buy a piece of land.
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37. Volunteer with suicide hotline.
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38. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
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39. Take guitar lessons.
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40. Buy a House
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How I did it: So, since I decided to stay off IM I have: Finished the book I was reading, Read another, started a third, got all four laptops that were on my workbench taken care of. Cleared up some work tickets. Did all the dishes. Did all the laundry and put it away. Have started work on the new file server, cleaned up the bedroom/office ... Read how I did it…
How I did it: My minimum payment was some ridiculously low amount, but I had to have the sucker paid off by a certain date in order to avoid interest. I jacked the payment as high as I could go and made that payment religiously. I had it auto withdraw from my account as well. Now, it is paid off and I have an extra $300.00 a month to go toward other things Read how I did it…
How I did it: The truth is, I didn't actually pay it off. Nor will I. I have simply shifted things so that I can build my credit. Instead of making a payment to this card and buying groceries, instead I use the card to buy groceries and then use that money to pay the card. I simply make sure that I am paying more each month than I am actually using. The payments are high, what gets charged gets paid off each month, and eventually, there will not be an … Read how I did it…
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after I finish the book I just started. I am averaging about a book a week. I hope to continue that.
As of today, I have read 25 books since creating this goal. Now that is twenty five books on the shelf to be cleaned, not in total. In total there are many more. Where it was packed with them, there is now a good 18 inches of clean space. Half empty. I don’t expect I will finish it this year, but by spring of next year I will. Then, maybe I will have saved enough for an amazon.com shopping trip and can start making progress on my Kurt Vonnegut goal.
Nice to have the downtime.
