Monday, December 29, 2008

Find Inspiration where you can...but find it


Sometimes just getting by seems thats all we do, sometimes it's good enought, sometimes it's not.

There are always moments when you wish to be inspired and in todays day and age we get slamed with information from different sources that really is unusable at that moment.

Until you take the time to put it all together...

Watch this video and you will see what I mean...

Inspirational Speeches

Thursday, December 25, 2008

1962 Remember When…


I have a crazy habit of saving things…Letters, post cards, Christmas cards, hell even hand written notes.

I do that because if someone has taken the time to write a few words to me, then it’s important and I value the time that they took to do this.

Anyhow, as I was putting some things away in an old trunk, I decided to see some of the cards that I no longer recognized and I found a B-Day card from my sisters that summarized all the events that occurred in the year of my birth.

I guess I don’t have to tell you what year that was.

As I thumb through the pages I found a section called “1962 COST OF LIVING”…So, here I go…I hope it puts things in perspective…

LIVING
New House…………………………………………………………12,550.00
Average Income………………………………………………$5556.000 per year
New Car………………………………………………………………$2924.00
Average Rent………………………………………………………$110.00 per month
Tuition to Harvard University……………………………$1520.00 per year
Movie Ticket……………………………………………………………$1.00 each
Gasoline…………………………………………………………………0.28¢ per gallon
United States Postage Stamp…………………………………0.04¢ each

FOOD
Granulated Sugar………………………………………………0.89¢ for 10 pounds
Vitamin D Milk……………………………………………………$1.04 per gallon
Ground Coffee………………………………………………………0.85¢ per pound
Bacon……………………………………………………………………0.69¢ per pound
Eggs………………………………………………………………………0.32¢ per dozen
Fresh Ground Hamburger………………………………0.40¢ per pound
Fresh Baked Bread……………………………………………0.21¢ per loaf