When Allison told me that she was thinking about starting her own business in Raleigh, she asked me if I would do her bookkeeping for her. I told her that I was very flattered, but I really do live too far away to be comfortable doing that for her. Sure, we’ve been friends a long time, but I suggested that she contact her Raleigh CPA Carson Thorn for a recommendation for some kind of local bookkeeping service. I told her that if he said that he thought it was “doable” even at this long distance then I’d give it some thought.
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When my sister Lil told me that she was probably going to have to resort to applying for one of the bad credit business loans that she learned about from an online search engine I became really concerned. What concerns me is the interest rate that she may have to pay. Unfortunately the people who need the money the most are the ones that have to pay the highest interest rates because of the higher risk that the lender is taking. I understand the reasoning behind it, but it just makes it so much more difficult for people to pull themselves up by their boot straps when they run into hard times.
When we agreed to let my sister’s family move into the downstairs apartment, we really did not realize exactly how much plain old junk was going to come with them. We really did think and hope that a lot of their things would have been sorted through and sold, given away, or trashed. After all, when we moved here we spent a lot of time doing just that. That is the reason why we had enough room to create a small apartment downstairs.
Having made that apartment, our own storage space is now extremely limited, and I have to admit that I get frustrated when I go downstairs to get something out of storage that when I have to move a ton of someone else’s stuff out of the way to get to my stuff it can get annoying. None of us are in show business anymore, why am I tripping over an old microphone stand that has been bent up and is missing the base from it? I fear that my sister is a hoarder, and it is going to be a struggle to keep her hoard out of my space! At least all of her stuff is down in the basement on cement floors so I won’t have to worry about the floors rotting and giving way under all of her junk!