David Bixler

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Michele Bottroff

Michele Bottroff Glad you like Australia.... enjoyed the interview

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Thanks so much! I had a great time talking with Richard Aedy. Cannot wait for a reason to visit your country again!
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100 Thing Challenge A must read.

www.pgpf.org
PGPF just released its latest edition of The Citizen's Guide to the State of the Union's Finances. This updated publication is a handy reference for Americans concerned about the economy; it provides a concise summary of where our nation stands financially and where it is headed fiscally.
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100 Thing Challenge Will be talking with Richard Aedy of Life Matters on the radio in Australia in just a few minutes. I like Australia, though I've only been once.

7 hours ago
Corbyn Small

Corbyn Small I am getting SLAMMED with emails from every online company I have ever bought something from about black friday and christmas shopping opportunities! AHHH I want to Spam them back asking them to plant a forest for $100 bucks through Plant With Purpose!

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Joy

Joy More from the "just a few pennies... voila!" postage stamp garden... This double-headed Zinnia surprised & amazed us!

Joy

Joy More from the "just a few pennies... voila!" postage stamp garden... the bees were back this year!

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100 Thing Challenge Photo contest almost over. Win $100. Submit pictures!

Yesterday at 10:05pm
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100 Thing Challenge Thinking about national debt today. This will make your eyes bug out. And your heart sink.

Sarah Moore Chia
Sarah Moore Chia
eh... it's all fake anyway. can't put too much trust into made up money.
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100 Thing Challenge “What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter,” said William H. Gross, managing director of the Pimco Group, the giant bond-management firm. “The United States is not only not saving nuts, it’s eating the ones left over from the last winter.” The chart in the story is frightening.

www.nytimes.com
The ultralow interest rates the U.S. has been paying on its colossal debt may not last much longer, and the White House estimates that the tab will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019.
Nikki Harding
Nikki Harding
As in, it's OVER already. Doesn't *anybody* get this? We are not at the brink of disaster; we are waaaay past that.
Yesterday at 12:01pm
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100 Thing Challenge Just got an email from Amazon, "Black Friday Week Deals Start Now." I guess that means I cannot shop at Amazon all week long :-)

Yesterday at 9:47am
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100 Thing Challenge A thoughtful essay about the difficulties and hopes for helping the world's poor. Worth the read. And I've love your thoughts.

www.nytimes.com
Humanitarians are fiercely divided about what helps poor people. It’s clear that doing good is harder than it looks.
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100 Thing Challenge So how many of you are considering shopping the day after Thanksgiving? Is it "ok" to shop on Black Friday?

Sat at 7:30pm
Conrad
Conrad
I never have and never will shop the day after. Id rather spend it hanging out with family and having real fun! boo on shopping!
Sun at 2:49pm
John

John "Make yourself part of that local food chain, even if you’re just the consumer frequenting your local farmers’ market. Reconnecting to the land will lead to a number of unexpected consequences. The more you tie yourself to a local lifestyle, the more you open yourself up to new opportunities, alternative ways of thinki...ng (even new forms of work) that ultimately change your world view. And it all starts with what you serve on your table."

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Louise Frantzen Julig
Louise Frantzen Julig
I'm all for this. Becoming a member of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm is a great way too. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" was a great book for opening my eyes, not that I can do what they did, but every bit counts
Sun at 11:51am
Tamara

Tamara Question for the 100 Thing community: My husband and I are moving in two weeks. We have done a pretty good job of paring down our possessions (we are moving from/into a 1 bedroom apartment, so we just don't own that much to begin with). But. I have a smallish suitcase of letters, cards and paper stuff. Letters from my ...mom to her mom, back in the 1960s. Fourth grade report cards. Postcards sent from my dad to mom. Stuff like that. I am not a sentimental person, nor one to dwell much on the past. Still, trashing those things makes me uneasy. Yet I don't want to lug the stuff around much longer. There's no one in my family to give it to. Thoughts?

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November 20 at 5:45am · Report
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1st. Keep them if you cannot find another place/person to keep them safe. Don't even get me started about how years ago I threw away my wife's love letters to me. Regret. Regret. Regret.

2nd. What about a local history archive? I even wonder if the Library of Congress takes letters like yours? Sounds crazy, but historians love local history. I bet you could find a home for the letters.
November 20 at 7:02am
Joseph
Joseph
Scan them, then donate them to an archive.. if you see a particular love letter or card that really is artfully attractive to you, do just that. Turn it into a framed art piece for your new place. But before you even begin sorting, make a deal with yourself that you will keep only X number of things. Then start from there. If you do that and stick to it you will be more discerning about what really moves you.
November 20 at 1:16pm