Category Archives: Everything Else

Happy Hanukkah everyone! Today is the first day of Hanukkah Hope you have a Happy one filled with light and laughter! We are having a white one….over a foot of snow…the most snow I have had at home since I … Continue reading →

Home staging is the fine art of making your home look like it is everyone’s dream home so they will make that offer. You have a minimalist approach to furnishing and decorating to enhance the space but get buyers to … Continue reading →

One more installment in my house sale saga. We seem to be getting lookers, but no offers. So we keep going back to the drawing board. Why is no one offering? The house is spotless, large open floor plan, beautiful … Continue reading →

If you hve been reading this blog, you know that I have been trying to sell my house. This is going rather slowly, but we have been getting a lot more traffic than before, which is good news. What is … Continue reading →

Hi Everyone, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!! I am lucky enough to not have to cook this year. We have wrangled an invitation for a bird and all the trimings and good company to boot. I … Continue reading →

Well, it has been awhile since I talked about my house. It is going slowly. My luck was to list the house just before the housing bubble burst and it has been sitting there for two months with only a … Continue reading →

Well, I have been making some incremental, but slow progress on my site rehabilitation plan. I have now started posting to my blog for my Elvis Collectible Store Blog So far, I have two posts. I tried to set up … Continue reading →

Hi All, Well all is quiet now that the goblins have gone up and down our street with wide eyes, open bags and the ancient chant of “Trick Or Treat”! Not too many came this year because of the weather, … Continue reading →

I recently wrote about several of my sites getting delisted by Google and gave a brief synopsis for Soggy’s site rehabilitation plan. Update: . Step 1 is to block the Google bot – This has been done for all of … Continue reading →

I recently started noticing decreas ed traffic on several of my sites. To my dismay when I looked at the external links in Google Webmaster Tools, I saw “0″ external links. Panicked, I checked around only to discover that this … Continue reading →

I am trying to use some traffic generation methods to sell my house.  Some of the things I have done are write about it here in my blog.  I have a Lens on Squidoo. I have also been posting it … Continue reading →

I already know that I get good traffic from my Squidoo lenses to my BANS sites.  We have been having discussions about blogging and social networking as ways to add content to our sites and draw traffic.  So why the … Continue reading →

This market is driving me crazy.  Stocks are down, up, down some more.  My stock portfolio is disappearing then reappearing then disappearing again.  My house, which I am trying to sell, is getting few showings.  What’s a girl to do?  … Continue reading →

Hey All, I am making a Really Shameless Plug about selling my house in Olympia Washington. If you live near here or are considering living here, check out my house. The house is beautiful! See the pictures at – My … Continue reading →

Yes, I have been trying to get into the swing of having a blog attached to my website. I have one attached to my site Victorian Antique Shop Blog I do believe that I have noticed a slight uptick in … Continue reading →

I recently opened a Twitter account at the behest of my son.  I have seen that some of you have “Follow Me On Twitter” postings on your websites and blogs.  I don’t have much experience with it yet and would … Continue reading →

Well, I am finally back from Israel.  My grandson did wonderfully with his Bar Mitzvah portion–thank you very much!!! (What else would a proud grandma say?!)  I really had a good time, but I am still jet-lagged.  Still, I had to … Continue reading →

Yes, my vacation in Israel is well underway.  I have now been to Jerusalem for the third time since I have been here.  This time to finish my shopping for gifties for friends and family.  This time it took me … Continue reading →

Well, I’m in the Middle East….Israel to be exact.  The Sabbath is over and the sun has just come up on Sunday.  I plan on maybe going into Jerusalem to go shopping or to the beach or to the stalagmite … Continue reading →

Hi Folks, Well I am  on vacation.  I’m mostly visiting family but plan to do some touring.  I hope to be back in about two weeks.  Will post some more a little later on.