Is a good bargain worth paying for?

Written by Caroline McGaffin


Most of us love a bargain. But is itrepparttar joy ofrepparttar 130645 chase orrepparttar 130646 joy ofrepparttar 130647 purchase that really motivates us? Is a bargain hunt without allrepparttar 130648 trappings of hard work, negotiation, bluff and counter bluff any fun at all?

I hate to bargain. Evenrepparttar 130649 mention ofrepparttar 130650 word brings me out in a cold sweat. Of course, it’s not my fault, it’s my mother who is to blame – she made me this way.

My mother, Nancy is a part-time property developer, art dealer and car buyer - and a full time bargain hunter and dealmaker. She’ll go to any lengths to get a bargain and she’s very good at it.

The only problem is that during our childhood, she always insisted on taking me, my brother and my sister along, either to applaud her latest deal or to learn from her expertise – I’m not sure which.

But what I am sure of is that my childhood memories are dominated by long boring trips from neighborhood to neighborhood, frustrating waits in stuffy offices while my mother argued with one realtor after another, and then meticulous room-by-room examinations once a property had tweaked her interest.

These marathon sessions were followed by long discourses to us kids onrepparttar 130651 journey home, and then still more discussions with my father once we reached there. And our home life was a bit nomadic - a change and a jump torepparttar 130652 next rung ofrepparttar 130653 property ladder came around every two years or so.

My mother is a truly remarkable woman. Now in her seventies, she has lost none of her zest for buying, developing and then moving on – she’s doing it again as I write.

She plans her forays intorepparttar 130654 property market with military precision. Firstrepparttar 130655 extensive research, then a careful assessment ofrepparttar 130656 lay ofrepparttar 130657 land, thenrepparttar 130658 determined approach torepparttar 130659 helpless vendor,repparttar 130660 relentless prodding for weaknesses in said vendor’s defenses, followed almost invariably several weeks later with a triumphant roar as she putsrepparttar 130661 phone down after squeezing every ounce of value from her latest victim.

Finally, Women Have the Advantage

Written by Jennifer Lester


Throughout history women have had to fight harder then men in politics,repparttar workplace, and even relationships. We still don’t see a woman president, and it was much later that women wonrepparttar 130643 right to vote then men. Inrepparttar 130644 workplace we often find we have to work harder then a man inrepparttar 130645 same position to makerepparttar 130646 same amount of money. As far as relationships went, by tradition we had to wait. Wait for someone to ask us out and wait for someone to propose marriage. Well, times are changing.

One ofrepparttar 130647 big changes that we see is in dating. In dating now, women feel freer to berepparttar 130648 aggressor. We can ask men out on dates. We can initiate intimate contact. We can even pay forrepparttar 130649 date (if we want too). We also haverepparttar 130650 biggest selection of online singles.

Inrepparttar 130651 online dating industry it is statistically true that most services have a higher number of male members then women. That gives usrepparttar 130652 advantage. We have a larger scope to choose from, and our personal ads get exposed to more men. We can easily initiate first contact or sit back and watchrepparttar 130653 flood of emails that come in from our personal ad. Then, we can play it out on our terms. Women get to finally start relationships on emotional levels instead of sexual levels (again…if you so choose).

It is a fact that men are driven by sight, while women are driven by feeling. It is no fault of either sex, just a fact of life. Inrepparttar 130654 offline world of dating, face-to-face introductions can easily lead to physical contact too quickly for an emotional baseline to be built. Relationships usually fail when they turn into sexual relationships too soon. Believe me, I know far too well from my own dating experiences. Online, we have a chance to take our time getting to know someone. Women can keep communication with a man going for as long as she feelsrepparttar 130655 need before she goes out to meet them face to face. This gives usrepparttar 130656 advantage of getting to know someone, and building something with them beforerepparttar 130657 chance of our own lustful urges giving in. It givesrepparttar 130658 relationship a chance that it may not have otherwise.

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