Daily Archives: November 19, 2007

Day 79: Doctors and Birthday Gifts

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 19, 2007
Doc­tor — $25.00 Co-pay at my internist’s office.  I’ve been try­ing to get my Clar­inex pre­scrip­tion refilled for almost two months now — first I didn’t have cur­rent insur­ance cards and then, when the cards finally came, my pre­scrip­tion had expired [see post].  So they gave me make an appoint­ment for this morn­ing, I go in and [...]
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Maintenance Monday: Squeegee Me

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 19, 2007
I am of the “qual­ity, not quan­tity” phi­los­o­phy. But qual­ity will only get you so far; proper main­te­nance of your pos­ses­sions is a very impor­tant com­po­nent to get­ting the most value out of the qual­ity prod­ucts you buy. My Main­te­nance Mon­day “col­umn” of sorts is where I share a main­tance tip that I employ to help keep my [...]
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Elder Care Thoughts

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 19, 2007
I just ran across this inter­est­ing arti­cle, Cost of Elderly Care Is Dou­ble Prior Esti­mates, in the NY Times.  It speaks to a sub­ject that, while not yet a part of my life, looms like a dark cloud on my hori­zon.  Actu­ally, in my case, it looks like an impend­ing first-class storm.  And some­times the prospect of how [...]
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