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Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?

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From: Seerialmom
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 20:06
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On May 17, 6:49 pm, "beadsbyirene" <sanerthan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "FrediFizzx" <fredifi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:699ej7F3219vmU1@mid.individual.net...
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> > Yep, ditto on our house also.  Bought for $23K back in the early 70's.
> > Very good for keepin' the rain off your head. ;-)
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> > Fred
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> > "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message
> >news:482f72c3$0$5707$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> >> The house we are presently living in now.  We got it at a great price,
> >> and it has since appreciated in value considerably from our purchase
> >> price, in about eight years.
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> >> "Joe" <cyan...@post.com> wrote in message
> >>news:8f2702cc-afb9-4964-bf0d-8425adb35b82@1g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> >>> Exlcuding anything to do with admirable things like making a
> >>> charitable donation and / or paying for education (be it yours or
> >>> someone elses), what so far is
> >>> the best purchase you've ever made and please elaborate on why you
> >>> think so.
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> You guys are so materialistic.  The best purchase I ever made was a marriage
> license for 3 bucks 48 years ago.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

In that case...the best purchase was my divorce filing fee.  Regaining
sanity...priceless! :-D
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From: Seerialmom <seerialmom@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living,aus.invest,soc.retirement,misc.invest.stocks
Subject: Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:06:02 -0700 (PDT)
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