Archive for February, 2008
Home is Where the Heart is – Valentine’s Day 2008
Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. And if the National Retail Federation had it right some $17 BILLION sluiced into the economy on items like cards, chocolates, candies and other sundries.
And to think, the namesake of this holiday died a martyr’s death at the hands of Claudius more than 1700 years ago for refusing [...]
Places to Insert One Thin Dime
There are any number of places where you might insert one thin dime. But one place I hadn’t considered is a gap in a hardwood floor.
Earlier today I met at one of my under contract new construction listings to meet with the buyer’s agent and my seller’s flooring guy before he started stripping and staining [...]
Stamp of approval – “Forever Stamp” Provides First Class Postage
When does 42 cents cost a penny less?
When you use a “Forever Stamp” you buy today to mail letters after May 12th.
The cost of sending a first class letter will climb by one cent this May to 42 cents. But the way to skirt this increase (and any others down the road) is to buy [...]
Baby it’s Cold Outside – Ready for the Chicago Winter to End
Cold? Yep.
It’s that time in the Chicago winter when the allure of snow has faded and been replaced by a simmering discontentedness.
As the mercury vacillated in the past several days above and below freezing, finally settling on the negative side of the freezing level, what we have here in Chicago is a mass of rigid [...]
Will the Federal Tax Rebate Have an Impact?
I read the news today, oh boy…
And with the dulcet tones of the boys from Liverpool serving as a backdrop, I’d like to draw your attention to the plan to stimulate the economy adopted yesterday by Congress and to be signed by President George Bush next week.
Evidently 137 million Americans, give or take a few [...]
