A few days ago, I posted about our heating-and-air unit being on its last leg. The technician who came out thought that our electric panel had issues that made a new unit impossible until we had some major electrical work done. Well, an electrician came out to our house a few days ago and determined that our electricity is, in fact, up to code. As it turns out, our electric panel was just mislabeled. We will still have to shell out a few thousand dollars for the new heating-and-air unit, which won't be fun, but at least the whole project will not be as expensive as we had feared.
( Stuart Miles / FreeRangeStock.com ) Question: Someone gives you a present. You open it, give the gifter a sincere smile, and say, "Thank you," but you know that gift is something you'll never use. Not once. What do you do with it later? Me? I keep them. I just can't shake the feeling of guilt that goes along with regifting or selling them. As a result, my family and I have lots of items we either haven't used in years or have never used at all: An electric knife, electric griddle, a big mixer, something called Yonanas. The list goes on and on. But the bottom line is, Yonanas and electric knives don't fit my family's lifestyle. They never have, and I doubt they ever will. So I think I might need to get over feeling like it would be ungrateful to get rid of them and post them in places like Craigslist or some of those online sales sites on Facebook for sale. That way, at least we can have the cash to pay toward part of our debt. Wouldn't...
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