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Tips For Staying Cool In Portland Without AC

The Portland area is great. We don’t get too hot and we don’t get too cold. We (usually) get a week or so of snow in the winter and a week’s worth of high 90’s and 100 degree days in Summer. A lot of homes in the area don’t have air conditioners. I have written […]

Is Smaller Better?

I originally wrote this in 2008:  Small is really big now. (Terrible play of words but I had to.) Somehow as families got smaller, homes got bigger.  In the 50’s the average size home was about 1300 sf .  Now it is over 2000 sf.  Thanks to credit we could buy more stuff and we […]

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