As a staunch minimalist, I cannot help but be appalled by the state of most American’s garages. With no statistics to back this up, I would say most Americans own at least a one car garage, if not a two, and the majority of those cannot get a single car inside. Unfortunately, my house is the same way. I’m working on building a bike rack complete with pulleys to raise my wife’s and my bike off the floor and out of the way.
The first, and best, way to organize your garage would be to get rid of anything you don’t absolutely have to keep. Personally, old mattresses, 10 CRT monitors, an old piece of furniture, some landscaping pipe, and more are cluttering our garage. The mattress is getting thrown away, the monitors are getting sold or donated, and the piece of furniture is supposed to return to its original owner.
But what do you do with all the stuff that’s left over? Gardening tools? Regular tools (wrenches, screwdrivers, drills, etc…)? Kids toys? The things which really do belong in a garage, but are still cluttering up the place.
My first approach is to get a small out building for things like my lawn mower, the landscaping supplies, etc…
However, some garage cabinets might also be a nice way to go.
Whatever you do, start by pitching all the crap you’ve got. Then organize the remaining non-crap into whatever will clean the place up the best, and make you the happiest with your garage. With winter coming up, you (and I) are going to really enjoy having your car in that garage you’ve been unable to use for years.
Rest assured you’ll be satisfied with a cleaner garage, and that you won’t be scraping off your windows like everyone else who can’t fit their car in their garage!
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If you do not currently have an online backup solution, you need to look into it immediately.
I used to think I did not care if I lost my data, and you might currently share that opinion. Then a fatal hard drive crash occured, which wiped out over 100 gig of information. The only backups I had were over 6 months old, and held on over a dozen CD’s. It was nearly impossible to recover, and I’ve backed up my data ever since.
If you own your own business, you CANNOT AFFORD to lose data, and doing a constant backup of your files online is one of the most affordable, and best ways to go.
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As a web designer, data backups of my files, and client’s files, are crucial. Don’t wish you had backed up later. At least take the time to fill 2gig worth of important files on IDrive’s free, and secure, servers.
No one ever cares when things go wrong, it’s when the solidified waste hits the oscillating device that people start freaking out.
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That’s the way it began.
That’s the way it ended.
Working for an organization where you are unable to discuss “how your day was” became, and remained, my dream.
I worked hard, studied, practiced, trained. I spoke four different languages.
I could run a 5 1/2 minute mile, fire 1,000 rounds with unerring accuracy, hold my breath for 3 minutes, and solve a rubix cube while under live fire.
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Four years working for the Agency.
Four years of zero mistakes.
One mistake later, and there are no more years.
The media constantly choked the air with conspiracy theories, lies, hidden documents, secrets, and corruption in the government. None of them could have been true. Reporters lie to get headlines and directors must sell movies. Never in my wildest dreams could I have conceived such horrible rumors could prove valid, and worse, that the stories were fairy tales compared to the truth.
One door, one sight, one mistake later and not only am I fired, I’m going to be dead soon.
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April 15th came and passed. However, that does not mean your stress those Taxes created is gone. Uncle Sam might have stuck his hand in your pocket this year, or every year, and you feel helpless.
Like warfare, preparation is key! Now, you may not be a general, but you can have people on your side fighting to help you win.
If you are already in debt there are a range of solutions which can help. To get information on tax debt help and nationwide resource for taxpayers, please visit Secure Loan Consolidation’s website.
I personally live in Missouri, and there are several businesses who can give you tax debt help.
If you have questions, make sure you also check out their F.A.Q.
I blogged just a few days ago about PayPerPost Blogging and how awesome it is. Since then, I’ve already made $15, and counting! You can make money blogging, which you probably do already. It’s great!
Adding to my joy, I also just found out about PPP Direct. What’s the difference? Well, PayPerPost allows me to log into their website, “Take an Opportunity” and then write about it on my blog for the prescribed $ dollar amount.
PayPerPost (PPP) Direct allows bloggers to add a button to their blog where ANYONE can hire them for a fee set by you! Why does PPP do this? Well, they do take a small (10%) fee of what you charge. But that is noting compared to a few of their competitors, some charging as much as %50 of your fee!
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Check out this website: XYZ Bikes.com – cruiser bikes.
My first bike, which I bought, was a single speed model from Wal-Mart, but I loved it. After it, I graduated up to mountain bikes, and every bike I’ve bought since has had more gears. However, I’d been thinking here recently about getting one of the old school bikes, which XYZ Bikes actually sells. Now, I wanted to find one that I could fix up and modify a bit, but these folks have reasonable prices, most bikes are around $100, and they ship internationally.
The website has a F.A.Q. and Blog for your reading pleasure.
Their website could do with some updating, but they seem like a solid place.
Like I said, I would love to get my girlfriend and I a pair of these bikes for light trail riding and just around the neighborhood for exercise. They are marketed as for the beach, but there aren’t any beaches in Missouri! 
When I was younger I used to bicycle 35 miles every Saturday with another friend of mine, and I loved it. We traveled on the Katy Trail here in Missouri from Columbia to Rocheport (pronounced Roach Port). It would take us about 4 hours on average, but was incredibly relaxing, and we got to have good conversations while peddling. Bicycling is a great hobby, wonderfully relaxing, as well as being great exercise.
My significant other and I are definitely wanting to get into Bicycling. We have been walking a lot recently, but walking is much harder on the body, and you don’t get to travel as far before being worn out. You can cover much greater distances on a bike, it’s much more cardiovascular, and much easier on your body thank walking or jogging.
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Thanks for Reading!
I came across a handy website which offers online filing service to start corporations in all 50 states. The name of the site is INC Paradise. As I’m getting started in Web Design I have had to start looking into options for creating a company. To begin with, I’m just going to set up a Sole Proprietorship as I have no liability to speak of being a free lancer. However, whenever I start growing and looking into hiring other people to work with me, and possibly needing business loans, an L.L.C. will probably be my best bet.
The site has a F.A.Q. covering the differences between entities like an LLC, Corporation, S-Corp, S-corp. and so on.
Also, there is a page which will help suggest which business structure might be best for you, and your new business.
Information for incorporation in all 50 states is readily available and easily accessed. Check out their pricing list for details.
Their cost of only $89 + state fees for doing all necessary paperwork to start a corporation in any state is incredibly reasonable. I worked for a lawyer for a short period of time, and set up several L.L.C.’s and I can guarantee you would be looking at spending well over $1,000 to do what they are offering for a few hundred.
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