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Even in real estate hard-times, dream home raffles aid good causes
It’s exciting to know that, even in real estate hard-times, “dream home raffles” for charity generate aid for good causes.We’re having a “Dream Home raffle” to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, in the area where I live, and it seems like a terrific idea to me. I haven’t followed how ticket sales are going (for $100 you get a chance at a newly built house in a nice subdivision which has been valued at $375,000), but I hear a lot about the raffle (the drawing is next month) on local television newscasts, so I assume it’s doing all right.
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Is the world filled with people who only know how to PANIC at the news?
Is the world really filled with people who only know how to react with panic when they read or hear the news?I ask because everything negative or dangerous going on in the world seems to inspire panic or near panic, whether we’re talking about economic trouble or swine flu. From the 24/7 cable channels to Internet blogs, no one seems to pause and reflect on ANYTHING. Instead, everyone runs around screaming: “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”
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More from the recession front lines: Even luxury car sales are declining
Alas, economic hard times are even hitting luxury car manufacturers and sales, according to an online article I read recently at a Tampa Bay area newspaper website. (You remember newspapers, don’t you? Those large pieces of paper with lots of words on them that many of us used to read for daily and weekly news in pre-Internet days? You do remember, don’t you??)Read more on More from the recession front lines: Even luxury car sales are declining…
