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Golden,
I agree . I only have carpet in two rooms and the stairs . But even with hardwood , two rooms have a big area rug to keep it warmer . 🤷‍♀️
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((((way))) that's one reason I have hardwood floors. After years if vacuuming carpet I vowed I would never have it again. Vacuums break down, mops and brooms don't.
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Uggh , the vacuum broke today when I had half the staircase done . 🙄🥺😤
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Pam,

What colors did you choose for painting your rooms?

I love looking at paint colors. I can never decide by the little paint cards.

I usually buy a sample can and paint it on a poster board and hang it up on the wall for a couple of days before I decide whether I like it or not.
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Pam,

Yay! Your renovations will be finished soon.

Exercising regularly helps us to feel our best. So many of us start to lose muscle mass as we age. We need to do something to build muscle.
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They finished my bathroom,, hooray!! now hubs can rehang the fixtures and stuff and at least that will be back to normal! Painting starts tomorrow on the main level, which is open floor plan so except for the laundry room I'm hoping to see it done by friday or Monday?
Yep, I am still going to exercise classes and i enjoy it alot. It is a mix of balance and strength. Yoga moves, light weights, bands and stretching. She mixes it up every day.
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Ana,

Oh okay, I was visualizing that a stylist cut your hair into an ‘old fashioned’ style that made you look 20 years older! LOL 😆

This wasn’t a pretty purple, it was a strange color! My girls have done the pink, purple and blue hair thing! I think the blue is really pretty.
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Need, I’d be cool with purple hair. Although I’d prefer green or blue. My elder daughter just dipped her ends teal. Mine is natural - mousy light brown with grey. I have no regular stylist. It’s still long - just past my shoulders instead of past my waist. Surely the senior thing was a funny coincidence.
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Ana,

The most embarrassing thing I experienced a while back with my hair was, I selected the wrong hair color.

I ended up having to attend my daughter’s play with PURPLE hair instead of auburn! LOL 😆

I decided after that to let my natural hair color grow out. It’s just about all silver now and I love it!!
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Ana!

Geeeeeez! Did you try a new stylist? Or was your regular one having an off day?
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Just got my first haircut since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Left the salon, went into a shop, and was given the senior citizen discount. 🤬
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Pam,

The inconveniences will be all worth it when your renovation is over.

Are you still exercising at the senior center? What kind of exercises do y’all do?
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Pam - BTDT and swore I never would do it again. I had the whole house renovated one summer about 12 years ago and it was dreadful.

I'm glad you have the lower level to hide in. I had the main and second floors done and not so much in the basement except the bathroom so I lived there for several months but at one point had to run up two flights to the upstairs bathroom. Never again!!!
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My house is a war zone. We are having the main level repainted, and a crack and some nail heads fixed. Stuff is everywhere,, pictures, furniture moved out, you name it . today was sand and repairs, tomorrow begins the painting. Plus they are painting my bathroom so I am using the second one upstairs and I am all discombobulated! Luckily my lower level is untouched so I can hang/hide out there! Plus I can escape to exercise class mid day. They are very nice, and in a week I should be mostly back to normal. But I hate this! Luckily the end result should be great!
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Here's one I bookmarked yesterday (apologies for the long link)
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I looked up Versa Cart. It looks like a great product, but it doesn’t give you the flat access to see your shopping that is important in a supermarket shopping trolley.

Because of my crooked spine, I wasn’t allowed to carry a school bag in my teens, and to take books home for homework I had to pull a shopping trolley behind me, two handed. The Versa Cart is just a better version of that. Very familiar!
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There is a product called Versa Cart that is a shopping cart based on the frame of an umbrella stroller. Lightweight, foldable and very sturdy.
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I shouldn't really admit it.. but as car-less share-housers we would bus to the bigger (cheaper) supermarket to shop & 'borrow' a trolley home.. It needed 3 of us to be sucessful.. we'd walk out pushing the trolley. One to push, one each front corner. Casually pushing it along through the carpark 😙🎵.. then a quick lift-up-&-over the magnetic strip that stopped the wheels then down-&-continue casually on. (I'd be sweating with guilt all the way home).

But it was a pain to walk the trolley all the way back & so lazier housemates kept bringing trolleys home but not retuned them! I remember 3 of us wheeling 3 trolleys back to the supermarket along a busy road - oh the shame!

After that we just took a trolley to the bus stop loaded up with backpacks, caught the bus & left the trolley there. A lesser crime.
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Way,

Awwwww, the kiddie shopping carts sound precious!

It cracks me up when I see a tiny dog in the shopping cart! Many people take their dogs everywhere with them!
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Ok , so I’m oblivious .lol.🤦‍♀️ I just told DH about the carts that stop if you try to leave the parking lot . He says they have that by us too . He said he saw a sign and the carts have like a boot on one wheel . He does not know what technology they use to trigger the break . He said he only just noticed it recently at the grocery store that we usually go to .

We also have the cutest little carts for kids to push around at one grocery store . They have a flag that sticks up at eye level ( so you see them coming and don’t run them over ) that says shopper in training .
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Way,

Not much, either a quarter or fifty cents. You drop the coins in to release the cart.

It is supposed to be a deterrent, you’re right.
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Need,

How much money to use the cart ? If you don’t bring it back , and you don’t get the money back , it’s still cheaper than buying a cart . Charging rent money to use the cart isn’t really a deterrent from stealing it .
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Remember when we carried our luggage around? Then a brilliant person added wheels to suitcases!

We just got rid of our old luggage without wheels. I have seen people convert them into custom dog and cat beds.
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Ok y’all, I just looked up the price for a shopping cart. They are over a thousand dollars! Yikes!

Key in ‘shopping carts’ and look at what pops up on Amazon. Very interesting products!

I see people using the foldable carts all over town.
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We have trollies that brake when you leave a short distance from the supermarket. There is a visible strip embedded in the pavement that somehow stops them moving forward. No discarded trollies around! And several supermarkets now have trollies where the top ‘basket’ is recycled plastic, with a sign saying ‘you are now pushing 55 recycled milk bottles’.
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Kellse,

I have seen the carts that you pay money to get them out and you get the money back when you return them to the parking lot.

I haven’t seen the ones that have brakes, interesting 🤔…
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The shopping carts up here have brakes on them that go on if you try and take them out of the parking lot
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That’s another thing that has changed dramatically since my kids were young. I am amazed at some of the baby strollers that I see. I bet they cost a fortune now too!

I am not a grandmother so I don’t know the prices of baby items nowadays.

I really feel for young people who are building their lives in these days. Everything is incredibly expensive.

School tuition is so much more than it used to be. Most leave college owing money.

Cars are expensive, rent is high.
They can’t afford to buy homes with today’s housing costs.
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cwillie,

If you had bought an expensive shopping cart I hope you had a shed or garage to lock it up , or my guess it would be stolen if left outside.

Yeah , a baby stroller design may be better than some walkers as well .
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Once upon a time I actually wanted to buy a shopping cart, then I saw how much they cost 😲
Seriously though those little folding shopping carts they market to seniors are terrible - short handles, flimsy baskets and cheap plastic wheels only fit for apartment hallways. I've noticed there are finally a few being made similar to baby strollers, it's about time there was some innovation there.
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