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    Setting priorities

    if you want to pat off debt pay off the highest intrest first. also in canada we have a programe where we can put money into a retirement found and get a tax rebate i beleive in doing this and using the tax rebate to pay off dept
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    How do you use your space?

    sounds like us how much sun does a vegtablie garden need
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    Suze Orman on Oprah!

    we already do all these also. guess we are just smarter than most
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    Needing advice on what to do for money.

    tx my job alowed my wife to stay at home and raise our children. looking back now the reward was more than she would have gotten from any job. be patient once the kidds went off to school she got a job that she was well paid for and very satisied.
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    Suze Orman on Oprah!

    i agree with you cassandra it seems that all the advise on tv is more just networks trying to attract viewers with the WOW rather than helping us regular people out
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    what would you do different

    yes i guess i would buy a farm also and help others out
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    what would you do different

    i am kinda new and dont know if this topic came up before but here goes.my wife bought lottery tickets today and ask what i would do if we won. i told her nothing i would no change much thtas why i dont buy them. last spring i walked out to my favorite fishing spot with my golden retriever and...
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    What are your SS goals for 2009?

    i plan to build a chicken coop and get some chickens my wife is going to start a garden. i am also going to keep coming here for ideas
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    My favorite use for a pop bottle.

    I have filled my pop bottles with water and froze them using them as ice packs. It gets very cold here in the winter and i can freeze them outside and use them in an ice house for keeping stuff cool untill almost june. The advantage to this is there is not the water you get from block ice.
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    What did you do to save $ today?

    once again i sugest if you want phone service try skype it is not perfect but if you have internet and a mic you can phone for about $2 a month anywhere in north america i think
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    Your Weather

    here in nortwestern ontario it is averaging about -20 c we have snow all most everday however not areal lot at one time
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    making use of the world's oldest free lighting source............

    it gets light here aroend 6:00 am and dark before 5:30 pm this time of year so you can see we have to stay up later than sun down. now i have freinds in yellowknife the land of the midnight sun so they have the problem solved for them
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    What would you give up?

    i would give up satalite tv but would still want news and nfl coverage but before giving up long distance if you mean phone look into skype it works on the internet and is very chaep about 3 dollars a month
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    Ontario, Canada

    cedar lake is very close to where i live it is beautiful but have to agrue about most beautiful on the planet. there are three tourist camps on the lake i live on most americans here come from ohio illinios and idaho not many from indiana
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    Ontario, Canada

    kenora is on lake of the woods and yes i am abot 3 hours from kenora
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    Home made......

    no one could bake pies or tarts like my mother they were the best in the woel she died when i was 18. i married a wounderful girl who it turns out can bake as pies and tarts as well as my mother could and no one in the world makes better homemade bread. she also did a wounderful job of raising...
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    Quitting my job

    i to am thinking of quiting my job but my goal is more retirment and farming as a hobby. i only have about an acre and want to be self sufficient other than utilites. i rember my mothers stories of the great deprission they had very little but wer never hungry. i think that is my goal nothing...
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    Maximizing heat from a fireplace

    a wood stove is muck better thsn a fire place also dont go cheapon the chimney. we got 15 cords of poplar for free so the next few winters will be very economical even after purchasing stove and chimney for about 3000 installed
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    Thermostat--your winter LOW

    we burn wood now but before that 68 while not at home and 70 when at home. i think turning down to low the up to what my wife calls comfortable (70) was costing more to reheat then it was saving
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    Ontario, Canada

    ontario also about half way between winnieg and thunderbay then north 170 kilometers. and what is byc
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