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The new car needs a repair already

Posted by Tricia in Monday, August 16th 2010   
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My husband’s home again this week. He’s on another mandatory temporary layoff from work. He had a layoff week in July and then followed it up with two weeks holiday so all in all he’ll be off for four weeks this summer.
If they were all paid weeks off that’d be great, [...]




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Looking for ways to cut expenses

Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, August 10th 2010   
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If you read my last post you know that we had to bite the bullet and buy a new car. Well a new used car.
I guess we could have waited and gone carless for a while, but with family out of town and my husbands parents getting older (his dad is 82) we feel [...]




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Our old car broke down – now we have a new one

Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, August 10th 2010   
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Another busy day .. or rather another busy week!
Last week, Chris was on his last week of holidays and I spent part of the week at home on my own because Chris was off camping with his brother, and the rest of the week was spent traveling out of the city to Brantford [...]




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