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2011-03-10T05:32:00.000-08:00

This morning, it's still snowing, I came across this last night, how kids have it so good today and what we had in our day.
All of this is true and lot of you can attest to that, but were still alive and kicking.

So this is for those who were brought up in 40's 50's 60's, after reading this share it with your kids,

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Koolaid made with sugar,
but we weren’t overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms…….. WE HAD FRIENDS
and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them. CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!

Have a great day everyone.

2011-03-09T07:04:00.000-08:00

This is not a

joke, I can't believe the profits they are making and the Government, won't help there raking in all that tax money!
Of course, were in Canada were so passive, it's disgusting, our old way of measurements, was Imperial Gallons which right now that means we are paying about $5.00 a gallon.
Man....... I remember when you paid 39.9 cents a gallon.
O.K. this was the sixties of course, but I can tell you on a fixed income, it hurts.
We are being ripped off, by the corporations and by our own governments provincial and federal.
The governments are lucky that we don't have the mentality of the Europeans or Middle East.
This is my take on this bullshit.

2011-03-09T06:44:00.000-08:00

Well today there saying we should get about 15cm of snow.

Do I have cabin fever..........YES.........I had cabin fever in October

2011-01-29T12:15:00.000-08:00

Started listing on delampe.net again, not a bad site for coins plus it's seen in quite a few countries.

2010-09-24T08:07:00.001-07:00

Googles adsense, blogs and webpages

Well yesterday I signed up for Google Adsense and was approved, which is great.Adsense is sysrem where Google pays you per click, for ads that they put on your blog or your web page.Anyone that as set up an Ecommerce Web Site knows how much work it is, if you don't know what your doing, like me, but I learned fast, as I had no choice.
To set up a web site like I am building right now would cost a few hundred dollars of which I don't have at the moment.

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2010-09-22T07:00:00.000-07:00

Good morning everyone, raining this morning, I guess I'll do a little listing on ebay this morning,found baseball and football cards I forgot I had.
Yesterday "bonanzale" changed there name to "bonanza" they also bought 1000 markets, which was a crafts type auction site, which is a good niche market,
1000 markets which was a little like etsy.com, nice little site very clean cut and simple.
The sellers at bonanzle as well as I, are pretty excited about the change, all I hope is that it does work out. Well that's enough for today I have to try and make a living, somehow.
Richard

2009-07-26T11:13:00.000-07:00

Sunday very quiet on the Auctions, Epier as a new Discussion Board but it seems nobody is using it unless there's nobody left on that site. (:(
You know I just came back on the Auctions and for some reason I find this site very different as far as sellers and buyers is concerned, I think epier is loosing ground as if they had ground to loose,in the first place, it's a shame you know this little site had the chance to be #2 if, they would've played there cards right.
I remember when I first started on Auctions there were 2 that controlled, which was Ebay and Yahoo, Epier would have had that #2 site, for sure it's an easy site to work and they had a good base at one time.
Well that's enough for today.
Good Bye

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