Monica Kochelee Method and Madness
 
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How many welders does one man need?

December 15, 2011
by Monica

Yesterday I was looking for my missing drill by rummaging around the garage. My husband has a habit of borrowing my drill from time to time and forgetting to bring it back to me to put away in the craft room closet. And he was using the drill to help repair a couple of dining room chairs by replacing some of the seats, so I really can’t complain when he borrows it. (Although I always wonder why he can’t find his own drill!) So I was looking for my drill and found it in a box with three miller welders in it. I was very surprised because in all of the ten years we’ve been married I have never seen my husband weld anything! So tell me, how many welders does one man need, anyway?

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Charitable Donations

October 23, 2011
by Monica

I had no idea that there was a need nor the option to donate timeshares these days. Apparently there a lot of special needs children that can benefit from charitable donation gifts such as a timeshare, which I think it really cool. Not only can you donate the typical car or truck, but you can donate just about any kind of transportation item including boats, tractors and airplanes and tractors, now how cool is that?

This is the time of the year that people are really starting to think about donating things, with the end of the year fast approaching and the need to donate things in order to use them for tax write off purposes is strong. So donating anything is a win-win situation all the way around for everyone involved. It isn’t often that anything that you do has that benefit, right?

So if you haven’t thought about donating yet, now is definitely the time to start, before you know we will be totally involved in all of the holidays that keep us on fast forward and things get really crazy.

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Price checking

April 25, 2011
by Monica

Every year my hubby tells me that he wants to do some comparison shopping of car insurance rates for our vehicles.  He’s always inspired by all of the commercials on television about how many companies offer cheap car insurance, and he is always looking for ways to save money on things like that so he can spend money on other things that he wants to do.

I can’t blame him for wanting to get cheaper car insurance, but I really suspect that since all of us here in the household have gotten speeding tickets in the past two years, that switching to a different company might not save us money at all.  Once they see we’ve all gotten tickets we might not be able to even be covered at the rates we currently have!  But I’ve told him to go ahead and check if he wants to; it’s no skin off of my nose, and if he can save us some money, well then I’m all for it!

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Roof repair

September 25, 2010
by Monica

My hubby was looking at my car a few days ago and declared that we need to take it to an auto body shop to have the roof repaired.  He said that they were going to have to remove the windshield and cut away part of the roof due to rusting.  He has done a lot of auto body work himself, and said he was not comfortable doing this himself; he wanted to let the experts handle this job. 

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Thanks for the help

June 2, 2010
by Monica

My hubby told me that he was going to spend the weekend helping me get the house ready for expected company that is coming next weekend.  He was going to dust the ceiling fans, dust the top of the refrigerator, do a few minor repairs here and there, install some timer switches on the bathroom exhaust fans, and help pick up the clutter.

Well, he ended up getting a phone call from my brother yesterday morning saying “I’m riding to Richmond on my Harley, want to come join me on your Harley?”  Well, hubby was out of here like a shot and didn’t come back until about 9pm.  They got caught in a severe thunderstorm on the way home and had to wait it out under a bridge for about an hour, but they seemed to have a good time overall.

I thought it was funny because my hubby swears he will never ride in the rain, and will never ride if rain is forecast, but the forecast yesterday said only a 10% chance of rain, so he went.  Now he says he won’t ride if it is even a 10% chance of rain.  I told him that there is ALWAYS a chance of rain, so he ought to just buy himself a rain suit and some motorcycle bags and be prepared!

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