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Our Road to Downsizing – with 7 tips to help you downsize
Are you at that age or time in life that it seems downsizing is appropriate? Have you recently retired or are thinking about retiring soon? Are you thinking about moving to the state that your children and spouses and grandkids moved to, hundreds of miles away? Whatever the reason, here are 7 tips to help you make that decision go smoother.
1. Making the big decision
The hardest part of downsizing was convincing my husband to move. I’m the person that handles the finances in our family. It took a lot of convincing, to get him there. I looked at many houses without him, since he can eliminate a house by driving by it and he didn’t want to move. He had his list of must-haves and his list grew as time went on. It started with a place to store his boat, an office area, and a garden area. Eventually, he added a pool to his list and solar panels. My list included three beds, two baths, and about 1800 square feet maximum. And I refused to have a house payment, anymore.
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Pinterest for Seniors, Beginners and Everyone Else
Pinterest has been around since 2010. It was created for people to share their ideas for projects and interests. Projects can be anything from how to build a potting table for your yard to how to clean your house in 15 easy steps. There are also businesses that use Pinterest to promote their products, so you may end up finding things that you would like to purchase when you are perusing through Pinterest. I use Pinterest for my blog, but also for myself personally. It’s the personal use that we will be focusing on in this training in Pinterest for Seniors, Beginners, and everyone else.
Do you have a Pinterest account? Would you like to learn the basics of using Pinterest and have it make your life easier? That is what I will be teaching you today. Get ready to start pinning.
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Hearing Aided by a Bone Conduction Implant
I love to learn new things. However, I learned about Med-El’s bone conduction implant the hard way. It all started with surgery in November of 2019 for a non-cancerous brain tumor. Since then I have been waiting for some type of hearing aid to compensate for the hearing I completely lost in my left ear. I never expected this would be the answer.
Med-El’s hearing aid implant is quite new. In fact, after I had my brain tumor surgery and I saw the audiologist, I had to wait until March for the surgery because it was not yet available in my area. Of course, March came and Covid-19 stopped surgeries so mine didn’t happen until July, four months later than I had expected.
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Credit Report Freeze – How and Why?
Some years ago there was a big push for everyone to freeze their credit reports, to prevent others from opening credit in your name. It seemed like a good idea at the time, so I did it.
Unfortunately, once I froze it, I forgot it. I mean, I really forgot all about it. And then came the letter in the mail saying I was turned down for credit because I didn’t have any credit history. I hadn’t unfrozen my credit report, so the company was not able to give me the credit card, for which I had applied. I was hoping to earn a large number of points with that card, so we could use them for airplane tickets to visit our daughter and family in Virginia. It didn’t matter that I had over 40 years of excellent credit history and a high credit score because my credit was frozen and unavailable.
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Estate Sales – Love them or hate them?
At the first estate sale I went to, I purchased a terra cotta bowl for storing my hose in. I think I paid $6, which was a good deal. The sale was in southern California and my son brought me there to entertain me since he knew I liked garage sales. Since then I’ve been to several more.
One of my recent purchases was a family of quail terra cotta planters. I think I probably paid too much, in my eagerness to own them. But they do look awfully cute as containers for three of my succulents.
Most items I pick up, I put down and walk away, because I am painfully aware that I should be getting rid of my clutter, not adding to it.
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