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lady_alicia Zone 5/6 PA
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Comments (23)That is great! In addition to the handlebar streamers don't forget one of those little baskets on the front of the little bike. A little white basket with flowers or maybe a stuffed puppy peeking out the top :D...See MoreWhat plant(s) surround your mailbox? Showoff!
Comments (22)It's not the site turning the photos, it's the direction the photographers were holding their phones or iPads when they took the photo. Their devices can identify the correct orientation for the photo, but this site will orient them in the direction the photo "should" have faced if the device were held in the correct direction when the photo was taken. Similar devices can orient the photos correctly. They all look fine on my iPad. But PCs can't adjust, since they only see the world from one orientation. Martha...See MoreNext door neighbor has not mowed once this year. Is this going to
Comments (11)Are you sure the house is still lived in? In our area, an abandon house may sit un-inhabited for 3 to 6 months, before the bank can do anything about it. In a similar situation, I started mowing the front yard. I was not concerned about the rodents, which which would disappear as soon as the yard was maintained, but my concern was the ticks. The house had sat empty for about through the winter. We heard the bank had taken over the house and had auctioning it off. In the spring no one was doing anything about the yard, and the grass was about 8 inches tall. I decided to take matters into my own hand. I cut the side yard that adjoined my property and the front yard. I got caught, by who I first thought was the new owner, but who turned out to be the man from the bank who monitors the house to ascertain if they were truly abandon,or the people just stop paying the mortgage. After the bank guy stopped and talked to me, the bank moved ahead on the foreclosure, and a short while later bank started to maintain the yard....See MoreA hate affair with my mailbox and taxes - help!
Comments (22)When I was very ill with depression, I became overwhelmingly behind in my paperwork. Here is the simple filing system that helped me get caught up! I file routine stuff by date. I have 12 file folders - one for each month. I rotate them so that this month's folder is always at the front and I keep it in front for a few days into the next month. Anything bill that is automatically paid just goes into that folder the minute I open it. The envelope and anything else in the envelope just goes into recycling after I have glanced at it to see what it is. At the end of the year, all the folders have stuff in them. I just reuse them for the next year. I make a big brown envelope with the year written on it and as I move each month's folder to the front, I immediately put last year's stuff into the brown envelope. This means that when tax time comes, I have all that stuff in a folder by year and I can go through it and remove anything needed for tax purposes. I used to keep back copies of bills for a few years but truly I have rarely needed them. If I need one urgently, I can get it from the company. So now I only keep them for a couple of years. Because they are in their own envelopes, by year, I can just take the whole envelope and shred it some time when I'm feeling industrious. When I was getting caught up, I just filed EVERYTHING in the monthly folders. After things settled down, I broke out a few categories. I have an INCOME TAX file that I put stuff in that I know is tax related; I have a file for savings/investments that I track regularly and I have a file called 'cards' where I keep additional copies of car insurance cards, health insurance cards etc. I find it easier to keep up this personally simplified filing system. I rarely need stuff from the monthly files but if I do, I can usually recall approx. when I did what so it's not that hard to go through them. Good luck getting caught up. I have a friend who is a professional accountant and believe me, he is used to folks who are in a panic about their finances and there are huge numbers of these folks. So I would advise you to get a professional tax prep. person to help you if it doesn't work with your sister as they are non-judgmental and used to dealing with folks who have your kind of concerns....See Morelady_alicia Zone 5/6 PA
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