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    October 22, 2003 - 9:58 am

    Congrats to the new parents. When do we get our cigars?
    If you react like this when you didn’t want a pet/s, I’d hate to be around when you got one (or more!) that you actually wanted!!!!!
    Do you think you’ll beat 18 [?] [?] [?]

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    October 18, 2003 - 5:17 am

    Muppet, we used to write that in autograph books when we were kids (when dinasaurs ruled the earth -in the days when we had to amuse ourselves with things that weren’t computerised) but we wrote it:
    11 was a race horse.
    22 was 1 2.
    11 1 a race.
    22 1 1 2.

    ~a bit like the 22 that should have been “20 too” in the riddle about the twins.

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    October 15, 2003 - 8:51 am

    Pinky, Do you and Arty live on a farm? Or are you like that guy in America who had a tiger and a crocodile living with him in his apartment? You must do well with your property investments just to be able to afford to buy and feed all your pets …. not to mention pay for all the tattoos. [;)] Or is that why you buy properties … to house all the animals?

    By the way muppet, I’m pretty sure Spike has joined his fellow Goons now too

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    October 15, 2003 - 8:26 am

    LuckyPhil, Have you considered that there might be a connection between the use of emoticons and getting a tattoo[?]

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    October 15, 2003 - 8:03 am

    Singing worked with my two, and now also with my granddaughter …. it doesn’t take them long to realise that the only way to get away from my awful voice is to go to sleep !!!! LOL [:D]

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    October 15, 2003 - 7:54 am

    What about “Race”? Then when you go to visit it you could say you were going to join/rejoin the rat Race! LOL [:)]

    Better still, when the visit is over you can honestly say you are leaving the rat Race behind!! [:D]

    Your cat must be very tolerant, or in need of counselling! [;)]

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    October 2, 2003 - 9:33 am

    quote:

    [:D]Forumites,

    I went and got another tattoo yesterday.[}:)]
    I get them in places where I can still put my business shirt on to cover them.[;)]

    I’m not going to comment about the tattooing.
    My mind just boggles about a business shirt that covers the tatt on your calf!!!!!!

    So I presume you don’t need to use a sock by the time you have that shirt tucked into your trousers!!! LOL

    Perhaps you can explain to someone new to the site, how does all this tie in with property investment? Do you use your profits from rent and property sales to pay for the tatts, pain-killing booze, and the specially made business shirts?

    I think I’ll find other ways to spend my millions.
    Hmmm…. I can think of plenty right now without any effort …. but I’ll keep them to myself for a while and savour them … besides, we’re not supposed to post things like I’m imagining [:O] [:P] [^] [:I] [:D] [;)]

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    October 2, 2003 - 8:58 am

    The fact that kids will make sense of a situation for themselves if it isn’t explained to them, was made clear to me when I was doing the weekly shopping with my son, then about four. I was on family leave so we were a family of four with just my husband’s income. We had incurred an unexpected expense that week so I had to keep to a strict budget.

    My son kept putting toys, biscuits, lollies, etc into the trolley as we walked along the aisles. I systematically put them back telling him “Not this week. But next week we will have some extra money so I will let you choose something then.”

    (I was told to never tell children “We can’t afford it” as it creates the pauper mentality; whereas the explanation given develops responsible financial planning.)

    However my son kept insisting “the lady wants us to have them”. He couldn’t explain what he meant, so I just let it go as we kept shopping.

    Finally we got to the checkout. I was told the total and handed over my EFTPOS card. I asked for some cash out as well. As the assistant handed me my docket and cash my son shouted out, almost in tears, “See, I told you the lady wanted us to have all those things. She’s paying you to take stuff away!”

    I saw the funny side, but it was also a serious lesson for me to learn. He had tried to make sense out of what he saw so often, but unfortunately got it very wrong! I tried to explain to him how EFTPOS works, but I don’t think he understood.

    It makes me wonder if that is part of the reason why his generation use credit cards so much, running up so much debt.

    So be warned, think about what your children see you doing. Talk to them about it to find out what explanation they come up with ~praise them if they are right; correct it if they are wrong.

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