No fancy new restaurants to protest (they change the "character" of da hood, man ;)  As a consequence, our "representative" supervisor has gone bat sh!

Phase two, just going to the door for my first contact and making sure I wasn't dressed like a banker.

The vinyl siding (yellow or cream) will be staying, the roof will be replaced with a new architectural shingle...Asking for color ideas for stucco and any other inexpensive exterior dress up ideas..

Why do woman dress to attract guys?

It seems that most who come dressed as a mentor want paid though.

Pros: Funny guy, tries to write free booksCons: Thinks I dress my dogs in sweaters and he makes his cats work in his office.I'm not sure how private this really is......

Fancy seeing you here!

The rehab I am doing is much more basic, not as fancy.

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.  

The only reason I have a bit of unsecured debt today is because it's the only way to keep any sort of credit score.I'm sure there is some fancy guru out there with 'sound advice', and three more to contradict him.