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from http://www.housingwire.com/2008/05/27/cant-sell-your-house-raffle-it-off Miguel Marina said he hopes to be able to pay off his mortgage, worth 80 percent of the value of his property, by selling 64,000 tickets at 5 euros each, promising his home as the single prize to the winner of a draw... "I'm going to raffle off my flat," Marina wrote, describing how he suffered sleepless nights trying to work out how to pay off his debts on the property he bought in 2005 before losing his job selling houses as Spain's real estate market went into a tailspin. "I've tried to sell it, but no buyers call," he said.  comments: there have been several attempts at this around the country, some legitimate some not so much. Some have been sued by attornies general. I am director of a mid sized not for profit who has been watching the raffle process to see if we could raise funds that way or if the local United Way could do so. This is the really only legititmate way to do it, that is, have all but the basis in the property go to a 501 (c)(3) charity. I'd buy a ticket if I could. It seems to me unfair that an ordinary person can't do this to save himself from crippling debt. After all he's not robbing anybody. I am very interested in raffling off my home. I bought property in the thought I would be abole to build my dream home. What a joke. I have been thinking of raffling off the property. I also would like to know if this is legal.  I just set up this website to sell my home for $1.00. It's a twist on the house raffle which appears to be illegal... No one is bailing us out so why can't we help ourselves? It's harmless. Is holding an essay contest another possibility? ...Most writing contests require entry fees. It is I *think* a legitimate way to go about this. From what I've been told the essay contest is based on skill not chance so it's suppossed to be legal... My concern is that if 'they' decide to get you, they're going to get you on something, somehow. I am trying to raffle off my house in New Jerseye... The only problem I am having is finding a charity to help me with the process.  We own and operated an automotive shop for 12 years we closed this buisness in 2007 due to the crippling economy... We are very interested in raffling this property. We live in Illinois does anyone know if this is leagal in our state? I am trying to find a charity in Oregon to partner with on this. There was a couple in White Rock, NM who tried holding an essay contest to raffle off their home... I assume they declared it legal because the raffle played through to its end, but they didn't make enough money and had to return all of the essay contest fees. My home is in Buckeye Arizona and I am working on raffling off my house... It was picked up by ABC Channel 15, who came out and did a segment for the news about raffle. I got many calls and I am now working with a non profit.  I live in Florida and am seriously contemplating doing this with my home. We want to raffle our land in Palm Beach county,fla. Near the ocean. I am interested in Raffling off my home in Florida. Unfortunately, in Florida, this is Illegal.  I am getting out of the military and need to sell our house within 8 months. How can I raffle off my house? I live in San Antonio, tx and this past summer, my friend saw this lady on e-bay raflled her house off... What I am wanting to raffle is my 2006 car, so I won't get it repo'd, but I'm still looking in the raffle rules and regulations for texas. I have a huge house in Virginia (4200 sq. ft on 5.2 acres) that I want to raffle off... What happens if you don't sell enough tickets? i am looking for help from a charity interested in helping me raffle off my house in virginia. send me info please. I'd like to know more about this and the legality of doing so in Virginia.  I am very interested in trying this approach to selling my house. I just had triplets in March and found out in May that my husband wants a divorce... I cannot work, I have no money, and I have a mortgage payment in Wyoming that I cannot afford. I would like to know if it leagal to have a raffale for that also in the state of texas or even on Graigs list? I am also wanting to raffle my home. I live in East Tx... My husband was laid off and we are about to go into foreclosure. I believe house raffles may be the ONLY viable option for some... We're creating a new generation which I'm calling GENERATION F, it's all the left over people that won't be able to live normal lives after foreclosure. The big F follows you for a minimum of 10 years, you can't own a home or buy so much as a pack of crakers on credit during that time unless you want to pay 30%+. What will these people drive, where will they live, how will they get auto insurance, jobs, etc. when everything is based on credit score! That's not even mentioining the animal problem we're creating since all of these homeowners are abandoning or giving up the pets now too. There's a list of links for learning if raffles are legal for your state at: http://houserafflesecrets.com/house-raffles-are-they-legal-in-your-state/ But even if a raffle is legal, a house raffle may not be. Or you may not want to because of the policies. For example, Hawaii doesn't allow a fixed ticket price, only optional donations! 
how to bury a saint
in a difficult position with your head in darkness until this house is sold. Joseph was a man who knew about moving on a moment's notice (e.g., the flight to Egypt), and providing for a home for his family. He also knows what it's like to have housing trouble (remember the manger? and being turned away from the inns?), and so is likely to be sympathetic to people with trouble getting or leaving a home.  "I have had so much trouble trying to sell my home, the mortages is killing me and I have trouble sleeping.... So I was so happy when I got this statue sent to me from my sister, she sent it to me with such a nice letter! I buried it today and I will pray every day." "The statue really was a blessing. We bought it and buried it according to the instructions. It took us a few weeks before we got any bids, and a few months until we sold it. But instead of feeling rejected by the market and unsecure, we transformed every day into a test of faith, waiting for our reward. That made it just so much easier." "It feel really good after burying it. Now I really feel how we are going to sell our house. Thank you St Joseph"  Centuries from now, when archaeologists sift through the ruins of southeastern Wisconsin, can't you just picture them scratching their heads as they begin unearthing hundreds - maybe even thousands - of St. Joseph statues? ...They're buried inside shoeboxes, empty mayonnaise jars, plastic bags and pieces of aluminum foil. They're concealed beneath garden plots, flower beds, shrubbery and patches of crabgrass in front yards, backyards and every plot of land in between. ...Marion Nelson of Milwaukee sent me an old newspaper clipping about a New Jersey woman whose husband was laid off from his job at a stone quarry near the turn of the century. The woman owned a small St. Joseph statue, tied a long piece of string around its neck and hung it from her roof in the middle of winter, with the vow that she wouldn't remove it until her husband was called back to work. The statue got quite a beating from those wicked East Coast winds. A few months later... well, I'm sure you can guess how it all ended.  [The] owner of www.catholicstore.com says he sells about 400 statues a month, double the amount he sold a year ago. Roman Inc. of Addison, Ill., which sells four styles to stores, has seen its sales increase 33 percent this year... The Society for the Propagation of the Faith of Boston, which runs a small store downtown, reported no trouble getting rid of its monthly supply of 100 statues or more. It's a... landmark for Philip Cates, a Modesto mortgage banker. He just sold his 100,000th statue of St. Joseph, helper of home sellers and a patron saint of patience. ...Banks, dumping repossessed properties, now account for three-fourths of home sales in Sacramento. Presumably, St. Joseph isn't part of their corporate tool kits. Cates said he plans next month to start going after national builders and banks.  There's also the story of the guy who got impatient when his home didn't sell. He harvested his St. Joseph statue and tossed it in the trash. A few days later, imagine his surprise at the headline, "Local Dump Sold." Although I know some people who swear by it, I cannot in conscience recommend the practice of burying a St. Joseph statue upside down in order to sell a house. Seems a little rude to me. Just what in the world are you people reading? It just can't be the same bible I read. Burying a statue, probably made by a Chinaman, and then praying to it, is nothing more than a pagan practice... Superstitions are not in the bible people. And why in the world would you pray to Joseph, who is dead? Indeed, a small bottle of St. Joseph baby aspirin cost me $2.79 at the local CVS. Thank you Jesus! Time (and daylight) was wasting, so I got busy.  Q: Is a stuffed eel pout REALLY an old tradition to sell a house? Yesterday, my friends at work gave me a mounted stuffed eel pout that they swear will sell my house... So St. Francis is buried in the front yard and the eel pout is hanging over the downstairs fireplace. What else should I do?  eel pout: a minnesota thing A: Maybe you just have the wrong saint buried there? St. Francis is the patron saint of animals I believe. Reply: I just had Saint confusion. It's really Joseph buried in the back yard. Addendum: Maybe it's working? We had a showing today! A real showing! The people flew in from San Diego just to see my house... There may be something to this eel pout thing.  wait, what?
it's the farm
this is the view i used to have out the back window of the car, shedding tears. 
generations. hey, mom!
 If the data are objectively assessed, which age-slice of today's working-age adults really does deserve to be called the dumbest generation? ...It's Americans in their 40s, especially their late 40s - those born from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. ...Obviously, we're talking averages. No one would apply the word "dumb" to Barack Obama (born in 1961)... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (born in 1964)... is more representative of this group. ...On... reading and the math tests, and at all three tested ages (9, 13 and 17), the lowest-ever scores in the history of the NAEP were recorded by children born between 1961 and 1965. The same pattern shows up in SAT scores. The SAT reached its all-time high in 1963, when it tested the 1946 birth cohort... Then it fell steeply for 17 straight years, hitting its all-time low in 1980, when it tested the 1963 cohort. ...According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans born from 1958 to 1962 have the highest share that has never completed high school... They also have the lowest share with a four-year college degree... and they're tied for lowest in graduate degrees. ...What explains the smartness deficit (and the related income gap) that has tracked these early Xers throughout their lives? Some say it's demographic pressure... They got crowded out in the competition for parental attention, good teachers and good colleges. Later on, by the 1980s, they arrived too late to enter the most lucrative professions and the cushiest corporations, by now glutted with boomer yuppies. Their only alternative was to pioneer the pragmatic, free-agent, low-credential lifestyle for which Generation X has since become famous. ...Graduating (or not) from school in the early 1980s, they saw themselves billboarded as a bad example by blue-ribbon commissions eager to reform the system for the next generation... Angling for promotions in the early 1990s, they got busy with self-help guides (yes, those "For Dummies" books) to learn all the subjects they were never taught the first time around. And today, as midlife parents, they have become ultra-protective of their own teenage kids. ...Early Xers have certain strengths that many more learned people lack: They're practical and resilient, they handle risk well, and they know how to improvise when even the experts don't know the answer. As the global economy craters, they won't keep leafing through a textbook. ...Just don't tell the early Xers that today's youth are the dumbest generation. Not only is that jibe factually untrue, it also calls into question all the family sacrifices the early Xers are now making on behalf of these youth. Let Generation Jones keep the "dumbest" label. They know it fits, and they're tough enough to take it.  Generation Jones is a term used to describe the generation of people born between 1954 and 1965... [It] stems from the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", which means a yearning or craving. Jonesers were the people who as teens in the 1970's made this slang word popular, but beyond this historical claim, many believe the concept of jonesing is among this generation's key collective personality traits. Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the optimistic 1960's, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age in the pessimistic 1970's, leaving them with a certain unrequited, jonesing quality. ...This is the situation described by Sex Pistols bass player Sid Vicious, who said that he had missed the Summer of Love because he was too busy playing with his Action Man.  The name Silent Generation was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time...(which defined the generation at the time as born from 1923 to 1943), [and] found its characteristics as grave and fatalistic, conventional, possessing confused morals, expecting disappointment but desiring faith... The typical grandparents were of the Missionary Generation; their parents were of the Lost Generation and G.I. Generation. Their children are Baby Boomers [and] Generation Jones. Their typical grandchildren are of the Generation Y (a.k.a. Millennials). ...No generation has so small a reputation as does the Silent... Silents are about 95% retired at this point. In a few short years virtually no Silent will command an industry, a battlefield, anything at all... There will be no President of the United States from this generation. ...Many revolutionary leaders in the civil rights movement came from the Silent Generation, along with a wide assortment of artists and writers who fundamentally changed the arts in America. The Beat Poets, for example, were members of the Silent Generation... This generation is comparatively small when compared to the surrounding generations because people had fewer children in the 1920s and 1930s... As a result, members of the Silent Generation were uniquely poised to take advantage of economic opportunities, thanks to the reduced competition. Many of them went on to harness the scientific and technological advances of the Second World War. ...TIME Associate Editor Gerald Clarke, 32 (in 1970) wrote: "We are renters still, taking as our own the values of both old and young - and not thoroughly comfortable with either... We want to enjoy, but deep down in our pre-Spock psyches, we feel we shouldn't." ...The major contribution of the Silent Generation was to humanize their world and now, they want to help ensure a safe world for their grandchildren. 
how to have a real professional real estate house-for-sale-listing photoshoot
squeeze behind the photographer, holding the coffeemaker. 2. put the catbox and the garbage can behind the back door. 3. stack your stereo and cd's and everything on the end-table and drag it out into the front hallway, so you can flip back a corner of the carpet to show there's hardwood flooring under there that you didn't know about for the last three years, because if you did know, you would have gotten rid of this ratty carpeting a long, long time ago. 4. stack the laptops and external cd burner and external hard drive and mouses and cords and box of blank cd's in the linen closet. close the door. 5. hide the dreamcatcher and your book "Psych ER" and the tarot cards under your pillow while the photographer's in the other room. 6. it's okay to leave the crucifix on the wall and the bananas on the kitchen table, because they are Normal. 7. do not get upset that junk by the back porch never did get thrown away. it is mostly buried in snow anyway, and besides, when spring comes, your narcissus will all be blooming, and won't that be nice?  you can have a nice glass of chablis when it's over.
things how to do you really needed to know
 How to Get Rid of Depression and Anxiety 1.See a therapist. 2.Exercise regularly. 3.Eat healthy. 4.Sleep better. Tips: Refrain from scary or depressing movies. Tell your loved ones how you feel. Spend some time with friends.  How to Bury Your Burdens 1.Ask all the mourners to arrive in their black clothes so the ceremony can begin promptly. 2.Give each person a pen and note cards. One burden per note card. 3.Go to the burial ground and circle the grave. 4.Light the candle. Explain that it symbolizes surrender and trust. 5.Begin with one of your burdens. Read it out loud, light the card with the candle, and let the ashes fall into the grave. While burning, say, "Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. I relinquish my burden because I must." (Say it together after each burden is read.) Pass the candle to the next mourner. 6.Cover the grave. 7.Lead your procession away from the grave. 8.Go on in life without your burdens and be happy. Tips: Dig the grave before the other mourners arrive. Write burdens that are intangible things - not PEOPLE. Warnings: Remove any nearby weeds and water any plants in the area before the ceremony. When burning the papers, drop them into the grave before the fire gets to your fingers. Things You'll Need: burdens a candle a match a gravesite  How to Hug 1.Approach the person. 2.Lean forward and wrap your arms around the person. 3.Family Hug: You can keep talking when hugging. Smile when letting go. 4.Friend Hug for Girls: Close your eyes and think about how much you love your friend when hugging. Do not clap them on the shoulders. 5.Friend Hug for Guys: Embrace strongly, and clap each other on the top of your backs. If it's an emotional moment, keep in the hugged position for a moment and do not clap each other's backs. 6.Lover Hug: Carefully sliding your hands down from the shoulders, put them on the person's waist and slide them around their lower back. Put your head on their shoulder. When separating, look into their eyes and smile. 7.Don't hug too tightly. 8.Don't let go too early. Tips: Make eye contact, but also make sure to follow the movements of the other person, to avoid clumsy mishaps. If the person requested the hug, then be warm and loving and make it feel like the person you're hugging is safe from anything else. Warnings: Do not confuse a friend hug with a lover hug. Things might get awkward. Unless you've hugged the person before, don't hug them without asking first. Hug only when the person you want to hug has their arms out.  How to Comfort Your Friend 1.Compliment your friend about their other great abilities and skills. 2.Tell your friend nobody's perfect. Ask them, "What can we learn from this?" 3.Sometimes all your friend needs is just to be able to vent, so be ready to listen patiently. 4.Tell your friend that you love them the way they are. 5.Give your friend a hug, pat them gently on the shoulder or back. 6.Tell them this world would be nothing without them. Tips: Be an active listener. When your friend pauses and looks to you for a response, repeat what they just said, but in your own words. Politely dismiss other people who also want to say something to you. Your friend will appreciate this. Warnings: Avoid talking about your own problems, even if they are the same as your friend's. Avoid saying "Life sucks" or "Everyone has that problem." Never say "Me too" or "I know."  How to Stop Cutting Yourself 1.Tell someone you trust about your feelings. Talk to this person when you have the urge to cut. 2.Keep a hotline number with you. If you can't open up yet to someone close to you, then call the number when you want to cut. 3.Remove cutting tools from easy access. Put them wrapped up and sealed in boxes on hard-to-reach shelves or deep in storage spaces. 4.Identify the trigger. The moment you have the urge to cut, stop and think of what has just occurred. Write it down and remember it. 5.Substitute. Wear a thick rubber band around your wrist and snap it instead of cutting. Hold ice cubes on your skin. Take a really hot or cold shower. All of these cause some immediate pain, but are less dangerous. 6.When you want to cut, express your emotions - Draw or scribble - Paint - Listen to music that relates to your emotions - Journal - Write songs or poetry - Scream into your pillow. 7.Distract - Go outside and run until you can't breathe - Put on loud music and dance like crazy - Play a video game - Spend some time with your pet. 8.Protect - Write the name of someone you love on the place you want to cut. Use the Butterfly Project - draw a red butterfly on the place you want to cut; you don't want the butterfly to die, so it will have to slowly wear off to fly away free. (If you decide to cut anyway, you will have to wash the protection off the skin entirely first. You can change your mind, and re-write or re-draw the protection onto your skin instead.) 9.After a day or so, analyze what you have done. Identify the trigger, substitutes, distractions, how you expressed your emotions. How can you avoid triggers? 10.Recognize that cutting is just the symptom of a root problem. Now you are ready to seek help. No matter what your issue, age, gender, or background, never feel ashamed to seek help. 11.Love yourself. No matter what anyone else tells you, or how you think they regard you, you should love yourself. Warnings: Cutting can lead to infections. If you have an infected wound, or run a fever, go to the doctor right away. If you begin bleeding profusely and cannot stop it, seek medical care immediately. The visual effects of the cuts can hurt and frighten people you care about. Be careful of the example you set for kids who trust you. Avoid websites that support and encourage cutting.  How to Be Extremely Out There Without Feeling Discomfort 1.If you aren't already confident, find confidence. However, you don't necessarily need to be confident in order to be out there. 2.Be open-minded. Learning to accept other's stories, tales, misgivings, etc., will make others more willing to accept yours. 3.Mean what you say, and say what you mean. 4.Realize that being more out there, doesn't guarantee that people will think you're cooler. 5.Know that people aren't as judgmental as you think they are. Tips: Take a chill pill. Don't be so on edge. Be more out there at a gradual pace, all at once might freak someone out. Go with the flow. Warnings: Don't overdo it. Don't lie. Things You'll Need: An "I don't care" attitude or the ability to develop one. An idea of who you are. Spunk.  How to Get Rid of an Immature Reputation 1.Start with the premise you were, in fact, a weird and/or immature individual. 2.Acknowledge and own your past behavior. 3.Correct them if they refer to you in the same old way. Don't get angry. 4.Give them time. This is one of the reasons why your parents cautioned you against developing a reputation like this - it takes a long time to change peoples' perception of you as an immature, strange individual. A really long time. 5.Accept that some will never revise their opinions. 6.Make sure you don't relapse into weirdness. 7.Don't let others' resistance to change stop you from moving ahead. You're the one living your life, and it really isn't any of their business in the end. Things You'll Need: Determination Patience Motivation  How to Wish on a Star 1.Think of all the things that you want to wish for. 2.Narrow down your wishes, to maybe just one or two special ones. 3.Look up at the sky, and look for a bright star or a shooting star. 4.Close your eyes, and make your wish. Tips: Always close your eyes when you are making your wish. Help your wish come true by actually doing things. Never tell anyone what the wish is! You can tell someone your wish after it has already come true! Warnings: Choose your wish carefully, for you might get exactly what you wished for. And sometimes that does not work out as you planned. Don't wish for something too out of the normal. Never EVER wish on a Monkey's Paw. They're EVIL!  How to Cope when Someone Discredits the Thing You Love 1.Try not to freak out and get rid of any evidence that you ever loved this thing. 2.Relax. The object is what was discredited, not you, and not everything else that you love. 3.Chill for a bit. 4.Don't completely block all thoughts of the object. 5.Accept the fact that the object is not the way you thought it was, and move on. Tips: Don't get mad at the person who discredited the object. Don't get re-attached to the same object. Just let it go. Remember that there's nothing wrong with you and that it is perfectly normal to feel this way. Warnings: If you find yourself seriously considering suicide, get professional help immediately.  How to Keep Calm when Many People Are Yelling 1.Make sure you are in a safe place. If the yelling is coming toward you, find a doorway to stand back in until the people yelling pass. 2.Don't jump to conclusions. You don't know why the people are yelling unless you are a part of the situation. 3.Resist the temptation to panic, cry or worry everyone else around you. 4.Stop worrying and start listening. You need to see if the yelling is about danger, about a fight, or about drunken hooligans playing around. 5.Make a decision to leave or to do something helpful. If you are feeling rising panic, it is probably best to leave. If you decide to help, make sure you have the inner strength to cope with yelling. Tips: Some people are so scared of yelling that they don't leave their houses. This is a phobia and it should be treated by a specialist.  How to Calm Down After Messing up Something Important 1.Check to be certain: are you really beyond hope? There may still be some extra work you can do, or a loophole in the system. 2.Go ahead and be angry. Try to push yourself to cry. This process is natural, and you can't pretend to bypass it. 3.Repeat this phrase ten times: "Life is crazy, but I am sane". Do it as a favor to yourself. 4.Accept the worst. Go ahead, be morose. Imagine yourself dying alone in a gutter as a result of what you've done. Imagine all of your favorite things being stripped away from you. These thoughts are natural. 5.Make a new plan. 6.Think about details. Think about all the stuff you have on your plate. Heck, you can even think about what you're going to eat later. Start planning teeny tiny details. 7.Take two hours. The bodily fight-or-flight mechanisms are hormonal, so you need to let that buzz wear off. Find something still & quiet to do with minimal human interaction, like solitaire or vacuuming. 8.Maybe tell people about it, about the specifics of what to do to achieve the next option. Don't indulge in discussion of how bad your life is. 9.Move on. Do something else. Screwing up royally is a good indication that you should quit. Tips: Stay away from people for most of this process. Exercise doesn't actually help. If you have a comfort item, like food or music, get serious. That stuff isn't going to solve anything. Face the problem head-on. Warnings: If you have been prescribed anything by medical professionals, be certain to continue to follow their directions. Don't use other people to gauge when you should give up: they will lie to you. If you want to punch something hard, don't. It just hurts your fist and it doesn't make you feel any better.  How to Listen to Annie Lennox to Calm Yourself Down 1.Find one of her albums that you think are okay with you calming yourself down, like Diva or Songs Of Mass Destruction. 2.While you're listening to her album , try to think about the plans you have going on, or pray to God about what happened, and that you don't want it to happen again, or anything that makes you relax. 3.Listen to the Annie Lennox song as many times as you want/need until you feel calm. Warnings: If you EVER want to tell your friends that you found this way to calm down, be absolutely, positively, extra sure it's what you want to do!  How to Appear As if Thinking 1.Squint your eyes and look down. 2.Bite your lower lip, and tap your hand on the desk or your leg. Look up while tapping your hand. Occasionally close your eyes for a few seconds. 3.Write something down on a piece of paper. Once you've written something, look back up and repeat. 4.Rest your head in your hand. 5.Go on a computer. You can also wear headphones. Nod your head often while listening to your headphones. 6.Read, or pretend to read, a book. Consider a book that would be very difficult to read. Tips: Please be aware that it's good to actually think once in a while.  How to Look Entirely Emotionless 1.Let people indirectly know that you know what they are thinking. Be observant and learn their habits so you can predict what they will say or do. 2.Act calmly at all times. 3.Make your eyes as emotionless as possible. 4.Silence is the key to look entirely emotionless. 5.Do not show any tone of voice. When you're talking, never use a question mark or an exclamation point. 6.Always answer questions; refrain from asking them. If someone just gave you a hard question, say "Why." When they answer, say "Thank you." Then answer. Tips: Take a moment to consciously relax the muscles in your face. You'd be surprised how tensed-up they can become even if you aren't experiencing any emotions. Let them know that you read books. Quote lines from various books. Music always has emotion. Choose your music wisely. Warnings: Never shoo away anyone. Being friendly is not an emotion. Things You'll Need: A broad imagination so that they would think that you are futuristic or prehistoric.  How to Deal With a Sociopathic Friend 1.Deal with the initial denial. 2.Deal with the anger that follows. 3.Break the friendship. As a matter of fact, breaking friendships with sociopaths is easy. To them, the friendship has been practically meaningless. It was only special to you. 4.Rescue your other friends, who also befriended the sociopath. 5.Move on with your other friends. Warnings: Do not try to change your sociopath friend by yourself. Avoid your sociopath friend at all times. You cannot change him, because he is mentally ill. Sociopathy is considered a permanent mental illness. It is incurable. Avoidance is the only help for you.  How to Wake Up from a Bad Dream 1.Realize that this is a dream, and nothing can harm you. 2.Decide if you wish to avoid or face the object(s) of your fear. 3.To escape the dream into a different dream, try to begin spinning in place. 4.If you just want to wake up, try reading something, like a book or a sign. 5.You can attempt to fly away. Crouch and jump as high as you can, as if you were at the bottom of a pool. 6.Try opening your eyes as wide as you can. This will make you open your eyes in real life. 7.Run straight into a wall. You won't be hurt, but you will wake up. Warnings: Don't try this over and over if it doesn't work.
how to MOVE
Q: I will soon be moving from Virginia to Oregon. All of my belongings will fit in my car, so it will be just me and my geriatric chihuahua. The longest trip I have ever taken alone was 9 hours away. I'm looking for tips...  A: Stay ONLY on the MAIN highways, stopping ONLY at Fire Stations and Police Stations, using restrooms ONLY at libraries DO NOT VENTURE ONTO "COUNTRY ROADS" WHERE HELP IS FEW/FAR BETWEEN ALWAYS get gasoline at the half-tank mark at REPUTABLE STATIONS, NEVER GETTING OUT of the car Carry a sleeping bag with window "HELP"sign Don't rely EVER on public phones. Most are BROKEN Only get out of the car at police stations in LARGER TOWNS NEVER SMALLER ONES Do NOT carry snacks or water It's a clue that you are a "traveler" DO NOT DRIVE AT NIGHT!!!!!!  Your simplest needs should go into a BRIEF CASE (so as to appear to be a sharp business retiree) then your FEWEST changes of clothes into a nylon duffle bag Sturdy nylon/poly travel clothes, NOT floral/lacy/bright colored/new/sheer/or fancy Wear a baseball cap (or other manly hat) with your hair tucked under the cap Keep a few keys on a ring, one key between each finger, for use with a fist. DO try to jab with the keys so they have marks of identifying damage, or future scars for the police/doctors to notice A typical criminal scam is for a stranger to walk up to your closed window and motion for you to lower it and talk DO NOT OPEN THE WINDOW, JUST DRIVE OFF FAST  Around the neck copies of important data is one of the best ideas yet, but could be a tell-tale sign of a traveler, especially if the cord can be seen by others!!!!! To that necklace add A WHISTLE/PEPPER SPRAY CANISTER At each motel you stop, tell the front desk, "I am expecting to meet my family in a few minutes. Should they stop by your desk, tell them my room number, please" in case any motel staff is a criminal type Most suspicious types don't have jobs, but they often have "contacts" who do and who watch for un-suspecting travelers Say as little as possible to ANYONE, and keep your cool around foreigners DO NOT SMILE TOO OFTEN nor TOO WIDELY Being too relaxed can make for loose lips and mistakes USE WISDOM and EXTREME CAUTION because these days are dangerous and evil, different from the past  GET INTO YOUR MOTEL ROOM BY 6 PM EACH NIGHT, AND DON'T LEAVE your motel room UNTIL FULL DAYLIGHT Place ALL your luggage inside against your room door, so any uninvited guest will have a struggle EAT BEFORE YOU ARRIVE AT THE MOTEL AND AFTER YOU LEAVE, TOSSING ALL TRASH OUT OF THE CAR, KEEPING NONE OF IT EXCEPT PERHAPS NAPKINS I always remember to THANK GOD EACH MORNING FOR HIS BEING MY FRONT AND REAR GUARD, FOR KEEPING HIS STRONGEST WARRING AND MINISTERING HOLY ANGELS AROUND ME IN TRAVEL  oh my.
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