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overhere @overhere (515) • United States 19 Feb 09

I am starting to get worried I appear to have, without knowing it, started to collect Garden Gnomes!!!!!!!! Argh what would I have said if someone 20 years ago would have told me I would have begun collecting Gnomes for the...

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overhere Love the pic you posted :-) I still have many gnomes increasing in number everytime I get the opportunity to adopt a new one ;-)

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overhere @overhere (515) • United States 19 Feb 09

I am starting to get worried I appear to have, without knowing it, started to collect Garden Gnomes!!!!!!!! Argh what would I have said if someone 20 years ago would have told me I would have begun collecting Gnomes for the...

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overhere Go see/rent the new film Gnomeo and Juliet :-)

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overhere @overhere (515) • United States 19 Feb 09

I am starting to get worried I appear to have, without knowing it, started to collect Garden Gnomes!!!!!!!! Argh what would I have said if someone 20 years ago would have told me I would have begun collecting Gnomes for the...

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overhere Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it

10 Apr 11

koalatbs @koalatbs (2229) • United States 17 Feb 11

I love the show Mystery Diagnosis... probably because I felt like I belonged on the show for many many years. At one point I was told there was a 50% chance I might have Multiple Sclerosis but then about 2 months ago a neurologist...

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overhere I love the show and am truly amazed that some of the people can keep going on and on from doctor to doctor being rebuffed and at times almost laughed at (that is the equivalent to a doc saying it is all in the mind methinks) and yet stilloften times with...

21 Feb 11

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 7 Nov 10

Have you discovered that some elderly people have this tendency talking to themselves? I don't know whether it is an aged thing that is normal to everyone. I saw a lot of people, especially older people would do something like...

chatting

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overhere I spend half my life thinking I'm talking to myself for all the notice anyone pays to what I say LOL. In truth with my elderly mother it's almost as if the older she gets the more the thinking becomes thinking aloud and then outright talking to herself. I am...

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overhere @overhere (515) • United States 30 Mar 08

I really want to give up smoking. I know it's killing me - just got over a bad dose of bronchitis - but don't seem to be able to make that final ;leap of faith. How did you manage and even better how did you do it without putting...

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overhere Scary to think i started this discussion over two years ago and I am still smoking and still thinking about giving up Maybe there is just no hope for me LOL

4 Jan 10

moonchild117 @moonchild117 (1990) • Philippines 16 Sep 09

I guess it's early to ask something related to Christmas, but I'd like to know when you stopped believing in Santa Claus and how did that came about. As for me, I learned that the "Santa Claus" who's giving me gifts every year...

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overhere Can't really remember, guess I was about 7 or so ........with an older brother and sister myths tend to get shattered earlier. Sure wish he did exist though as this year things are going to be very tight and this "Santa" is going to struggle to pull it off for...

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buchi_bulla @Buchi_bulla (8298) • India 31 Aug 09

I love to have garden around my house and have all sorts of plants whether flowers or vegetables. In my childhood, we had good space in the quarters that we lived and had a big garden. Each one of the family member had some...

garden at home

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overhere I am an English woman relocated to America I would be lost without a garden. For me it is flowers first and a few vegetables as a mere after thought. We have almost an acre surrounding the house which was wood and lawn when I arrived and is now, much to my...

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sandymay48 @sandymay48 (2030) • Canada 6 Apr 09

THis is a question that Im not sure I really have an answer for yet. I was adding up the cost it would have been for my daughter to attend university a few years back. It was between $15000-$20,000 a year. Then I read a story...

prision education

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overhere Perhaps we are coming at this from the wrong side. Is it fair that your child has too pay so much for a decent education? As far as the prison inmate is concerned I am a great believer that it is the loss of liberty that is the punishment and that prison...

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koalatbs @koalatbs (2229) • United States 6 Apr 09

Gosh... I haven't had to deal with this in quite a few years! We have a tornado watch until late this afternoon along with severe thunderstorms. It hasn't hit yet but is supposed to at anytime now. I guess I'll have to get off of...

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overhere Having moved to the states from the UK the occasional tornado warning is something I will never get used to. I wish you a safe and event free day, hopefully the bad storms will go above and below you across unpopulated areas. I find the promise of bad weather...

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overhere @overhere (515) • United States 22 Sep 08

We have one very sick dog! She has walking pneumonia and worms. The problem is we are having a major problem getting and keeping her meds down her. The antibiotics are pills so thats a hand down throat (she threw it up last...

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overhere Oh yes she is back to her bouncy, trouble finding loveable self!

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ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 6 Mar 09

Prs. Obama insist that his administration will be as transparent as the Secret Service and National Security will allow. Yet he insists that his Blackberry is off limits to anyone but himself. He is not the first president in...

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overhere The Blackberry issue had nothing to do with anything being kept from public record . He was/is addicted to the beastie which I guess shows what a generational change we have in our new President. The issue was one of security in that they are hackable - an...

6 Mar 09

orochi @orochi (318) • Denmark 6 Mar 09

I heard in a news saying some of the first things Barrack Obama wanted to do was closing guntanamo and in my oppinion he should have thought that one through first because the rules goes like this. 1. He cant send them back to...

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overhere In all honesty Obama has no option but to close Guantanamo it is the glaring beacon that lights the way to all that was wrong with the Bush administration policies. Obama has stated he WILL close the prison camp withing 12 months. Apart from in the eyes of...

6 Mar 09

ClassyCat @ClassyCat (1214) • United States 6 Mar 09

Former governor Tommy Thompson, was head over the Dept. Of Health & Human Services, and I've just been curious as to what has happened to him. Haven't heard a thing about him anywhere. This is a subject that some of the...

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overhere A quick google search brings up a wikipedia listing for him. It would appear that after dropping out of the 2008 presidential race he's just reverted to the standard list of business dealings. I did find it amusing that he once excused some pretty appalling...

6 Mar 09

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loved1 @loved1 (5328) • United States 5 Mar 09

Have you been to Walmart lately? I do most of my shopping there and have noticed something strange going on. In order to save money I like to buy the walmart "great value" brand items when they are available. However, that brand...

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overhere I work and shop at Walmart and have heard nothing about them getting rid of their Great Value brand certainly all the things that I buy on the GV label are still available. Dont forget that Walmart matches any others stores advertised prices so all the flyers...

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laydee @laydee (12798) • Philippines 5 Mar 09

I'm just curious, at what age did you start working? and why? Do you think it's good for children to work earlier so as to appreciate the value of money? or does working (and earning) distract them and they'd rather work (and...

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overhere Absolutely correct and not only that but they never learn money managemnt. There is so much to be gained from having a little job and independence as a teenager, even the social skills you gain count for so much later on.

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momtrying2makeit @momtrying2makeit (3270) • United States 4 Mar 09

Which would you choose and why? I myself like Kmart better always have to me walmart is always too packed and for some reason they never have what I am looking for. For example I went to Walmart not too long ago and I was looking...

kmart

savings verse quailty

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overhere I do not know what the attraction of K-Mart is we have one here and it totally SUCKS. The only thing I have ever bought there are the trainers i wear everyday as they are comfortable and really cheap! But on the whole whole our K-Mart is full of really tacky...

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mdawson @mdawson (70) • United States 3 Mar 09

What do you think about walmart? what do you like or dislike about walmart?

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overhere We got the discout on the food too over the Christmas period and it ws wonderful it very quickly adds up to a pretty massive saving.

5 Mar 09

laydee @laydee (12798) • Philippines 5 Mar 09

I'm just curious, at what age did you start working? and why? Do you think it's good for children to work earlier so as to appreciate the value of money? or does working (and earning) distract them and they'd rather work (and...

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overhere My sister, brother and myself all got our first jobs at 13. I am a great believer that if you have to earn your money you have a much better respect for its worth and value. I worked first in a toyshop and then on a market stall on Saturdays and babysat two or...

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Nancy312 @Nancy312 (282) • China 5 Mar 09

I don't like to go outside on weekends or holidays,generally,i will choose to stay at home.But if friends call me to go out with them,i will go.Or i will stay alone at home for whole days.Sometimes they feel that i stay too long...

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overhere When I was in England I never worked holidays and weekends so once I had any chores caught up with the time was mine. If the weather was good I would go for a drive to the coast if not I'd curl up with a book. I have always been happy with my own company so...

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