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July 19, 2008
Volume 6, Number 14
ISSN 1554-6330

In this issue:

1. Carpenter Country
2. Top Drawer Article
3. Top Drawer Tips
4. Top Drawer Satire

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CARPENTER COUNTRY
What's Happening in Our Neck of the Human Experience

 

Here in Carpenter Country, the short one’s been sneaking away from her desk whenever possible to work outside. But this month it’s too hot and humid to pull weeds and plant flowers. Which means it’s time to stay indoors where it’s cool and spruce up her workspace.

So what exactly needs sprucing up?

A glance around the office offers lots of ideas. Clear the clutter off her desk. Organize files. Paint the walls. All good options except painting makes the short one sneeze and filing puts her to sleep.

How about buying some new furniture? That would give the whole room a different look and take the least amount of work.

A Google search turns up the perfect item – a recliner, (what could be better?) top half fabric, bottom leather. Except the leather only comes in dark brown. Well, that won’t match the burgundy colored desk chair she’s using now, and which she’s decided to keep as a spare.

Other web sites show the same easy-to-work-in-for-hours seat...with the same dark brown leather. Doesn’t anyone have something in burgundy?

It seems not.

How about a trip to town to visit a few stores? Maybe in person the colors will be more alike than different. Besides, seeing before buying is always good. What’s bad is that running around to office outlets will burn a lot of gas. And with prices at $4 a gallon...

Scratch driving, instead order the new recliner on-line and have it delivered. If the brown really is brown donate the old burgundy chair to charity.

Yep. That’s a go, and the best idea this old gal’s had all week.

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TOP DRAWER ARTICLE

Watching Out for Counterfeit Money
by
HL Carpenter

 

As a business owner, you’re always on the lookout for ways to reduce expenses and increase profits. But you might not consider how counterfeit money can impact your bottom line. Yet small businesses may be especially at risk, since the $20 bill is often a popular choice of counterfeiters, who buy small items and pocket the legitimate cash you hand over as change.

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TOP DRAWER TIPS
Topics and Tidbits

 

Tip: The Office of Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence works with the Treasury Department to provide consumer education on security features incorporated into US currency. You can learn about the latest improvements, as well as suggestions about how to detect counterfeit currency, on the US Treasury web site. The US Secret Service web site also offers ways to spot funny money.

Glossary Term: Counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is the manufacture or copying of an item in order to defraud someone by passing it off as an original. In addition to currency, counterfeiters create false items as varied as food coupons, postage stamps, checks, bonds, securities, medicine, cigarettes, musical and theatrical works, and designer fashions.

Financial Horoscope: Forget copying other people’s financial goals. When you forge your own course, the results will be anything but fake. Go for authenticity instead of chasing a pale imitation of someone else’s dream. Being an original is much more satisfying – not to mention completely legal.

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TOP DRAWER SATIRE

The Mattress Bank
by
HL Carpenter

 

There’s one bright spot stuffed between the twin slats of worry over soft credit markets and the sagging future of the US banking industry: The Mattress Bank, which is expected to report firm results in today’s quarterly earnings call.

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