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3046 County Rd. 44, Spencerville $369,900
Restored, stunning stone home circa 1880 on 2.2 acres, park-like setting, unique 3 bedrm all in character with the old days with modern conveniences.. many updates MUST SEE MLS 878415
7152 County Rd. 15, North Augusta $199,900 Ideal for home business, 2 storey building 45ft x 30ft plus separate workshop appr0x 20’ x 24’, 10ft ceiling, 2nd floor 2 bedroom living quarters spacious throughout & nicely finished. MLS 878553
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2405 Brouseville Rd., Spencerville $335,000
72 ACRE FARM – Log home set back from road, rolling land & private setting for this pioneer style home (1980), several log outbuildings, this is one of a kind… Must be seen! MLS 890890
228 Wallace Street, Merrickville $398,500
Stunning 1769 sq.ft bungalow on 1.5 acre lot with lots of curb appeal, wraparound veranda, open concept well designed floor plan with fully fin. basement. A must see call for appt MLS 886844
26 Charles Street, Crysler $179,900
3 bedroom single family home with in-law suite, corner lot 66’x99’, some upgrades such as windows, kitchen counter top, flooring… 2.5 baths, main floor laundry ! Call for appt MLS 892310
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134 Lake Street, Graham Lake 2+2 bed and 1 bath, above ground pool and generator on 1.58 acres. MLS # 080600001524500
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$299,999-Spencerville-Glen Smail RoadSet back 350 ft from the road is your brand new 1176 sq ft hi-ranch with lower level walkout overlooking your private 50 acre estate16 x 24 ft garage-metal roof-hi efficiency propane furn-7 year new home warrantyOpen concept grand room-Custom kitchen with centre island & quality cabinetry-add $50k for 1400 sq ft + dble garagewww.aFantasticPlace.ca
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Christmas tips
Face it. Year after year people, intelligent, responsible, creative and mature people, go into loads of debt over Christmas. Special foods, gifts, and decorating take their toll when, in January, the bills start Liz’ Tips By: Liz Quinn of Design’in-Mind rolling in. But there are ways around that... Maximum Impact with Minimal Investment Brockville, Ontario
Decorating a home with beautiful holiday decor does not have to be expensive. Beauty is a combination of aesthetics and the stirring of people's memories and emotions. Stores intentionally scent the air with cinnamon and spices to make people feel good and recall their past memories. You can do the same thing in your Holiday Home! Candles Are Inexpensive Simplicity is elegant. That is why Coco Channel sold so many versions of her "little black dress". A simple pillar candle can be beautiful if it is setting in a bowl of cranberries, or peppermint candies. Some candle ideas are: 1. Fill a mason jar with cranberries, or starlight mints (or even cinnamon candies) and set a votive on top. Make a grouping with several jars of varying sizes. 2. Use a basket to fill with red and green apples. Put a pillar candle on a holder in the middle of the basket. You may need to raise it up some with an overturned jar. If your basket is big enough, use three candles of varying heights. 3. Use a large pillar candle centred in some greenery in the middle of a table. 4. Set pillar candles of various sizes on saucers and surround with potpourri. Arrange across a table or mantle. 5. Put a votive in a antique tea cup and sit it on a saucer atop several vintage holiday books. Use What You Have You probably have a lot of things around the house that would be happy to get some attention as Christmas decorations. Think about your own memories and what they include. 1. A rag doll or teddy bear seated atop a stack of your favourite holiday books (even cookbooks!) 2. A basket or bowl filled with metal holiday cookie cutters and decorated with a festive bow. 3. Have a toy wagon or sled? put it by the front door filled with wrapped gifts (or even wrapped empty boxes). Add a few wooden or vintage toys and stuffed animals if you like. 4. Use your Christmas cards! Display them in groups, varying the height with books…or display them in a big wooden bowl or basket. 5. Hang ornaments or even cookies on ribbon in the windows.
6. Download a Christmas screen saver on your computer. 7. Bowls of in shell nuts are great, either with just nuts or with oranges in the bowl as well. 8. Fill a glass or crystal punch bowl with Christmas balls that you don't need for the tree or that have lost their hangers. Bring the Outside In Most people have evergreen trees of some sort (real or not) available to them. Even the twigs and small branches of hardwood trees can look festive with a little care. 1. Gather pine cones and arrange them in a basket or even a Christmas gift bag. For a casual look by the fireplace set the bag on it's side and allow the pine cones to spill out. You can spray paint them bronze, or gold, or you can glue glitter on them for a frosty look, or spray them with fake snow. 2. Cut boughs of evergreen and wire it together to make long swags to go up the banister or around the door. This takes a little practice but the results are beautiful. 3. Make an evergreen wreath in the same way. 4. Mass evergreen boughs on a fireplace mantle, atop kitchen cabinets or on china cabinets and armoires. Run the small twinkling lights through them if you like. 5. Spray paint twigs and small branches gold and gather them in bundles tied with ribbon. Thrift Shops and Garage Sales Thrift shops are an absolute treasure chest when it comes to holiday decor. Some people get new things every year and cast off their old. Sometimes the old ornaments and decorations just need a little sprucing up just like the poor little tree on Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown! 1. You can paint old glass ornaments. Clean ornament and use a little fine sandpaper to get the loose paint off if necessary. Spray paint with your colour of choice. 2. You can also roll in glue and cover with glitter 3. Spray with fake snow to flock it. 4. Glue ribbon around it. 6. Decoupage Christmas wrap on it.
Old fake greenery can be transformed with some fake snow, some ribbon and a hot glue gun. Just spray the snow on the greenery and hot glue bows to it. Old magazines and books may have just the pictures or ads that you are looking for decoupage projects or for laminating and turning into ornaments. Random Ideas 1. Cut an orange in thin rounds and dry in oven. Hang slices on the tree or windows or place in bowls. 2. Don't forget scent. Use scented candles in evergreen, orange, or spice scents. 3. Tie or attach bows to chairs, tables, light fixtures and door knobs. 4. Create garlands by stringing popcorn and/or cranberries. 5. Hang several pairs of mittens up on a "clothesline" across the window. 6. String buttons on a homespun yarn or twine. 7. One year I made an advent quilt by making a wall hanging with 24 stockings appliquéd on it and left open at the top. Each day the children got to have what was in the stockings. 8. Use candy canes in bowls, in vases…wherever you wish. 9. Make a gingerbread house! 10. Let the kids make garlands from pasta shapes. Spray paint them first if you wish. Use Your Imagination There are so many things you can do. Use your imagination to create a gorgeous holiday home that welcomes your family and friends. And that really is the key to a beautiful home. Remember it is not the things that are in it or how they are arranged but the warmth and welcome that emanates from it when you step inside. Concerned about the environment? Want to wrap Christmas presents in something that is both environmentally-friendly AND attractive? Buy wrapping paper made specifically from recycled content. You can feel better buying it, and can probably recycle or compost it when you are done. Buying wrapping papers from charity groups involved in saving rainforests will salve your conscience and is a nice gesture. Buy a bundle of pretty gift bags from your local dollar store, and reuse them each year. Tie the handles together with some ribbon so gift-getters have something to "unwrap". These bags come in all designs and look very nice under the tree. They are also a boon for wrapping odd-shaped gifts. • Along the same lines, you can pick up a bunch of used but pretty baskets from your local Goodwill or thrift store. Put the gifts in the baskets and presto! Nothing to chuck. Everyone can use a basket or two in their lives. • Make lovely, reusable gift sacks from cloth material you have lying around. Fold material in half and sew up one bottom and the other side. Leave the top open, insert gift, and tie shut with a ribbon. These sacks can be as simple or extravagant as your talents/interest allows.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
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$157,900
Great starter home! - Affordable bungalow sitting on a nice big lot in the country! Located just minutes north of Ingleside. 3 bed rm's 2 bath, with hardwood and ceramic and a beautifully finished basement, along with a breeze-way and attached garage. Updates - all windows, oil furnace, tank and chimney insert all installed Jan. 2013
4967 County 14 Rd., Ingleside
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Just minutes north of Ingleside you will find this all brick raised bungalow, with a three bay - garage/shop with an overhead loft or second level. With 3+2 bed rms and 2 bath rms, tons of living space along with a good sized kitchen, formal living rm upstairs and two rec rms on the lower level, it's perfect for the growing family and the hobbiest looking for some room to create.
18 Dale St., Long Sault
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Beautiful 3+1 bed rm bungalow, with 3-4pc bath rooms and a full apartment/granny suite in the basement. Attached two car garage, with a bonus storage or garden shed with an overhead door. Full apartment in the basement has its own entrance and kitchen. Centrally located in Parkview Estates in Long Sault, on a over-sized lot, this home has alot to offer.
Looking for affordable living, down sizing or go south for the winter - this could be the spot for you!! **wheel chair accessible** mobile home on leased land sits on a corner lot with lots of privacy, maintenance free all steel roof installed in 2011 with 25yr guarantee, updated windows and propane furnace - plus a bonus detached heated workshop.
12077 Julia St., Mariatown
1 Merkley St., Morrisburg $295,000
$349,000
Well maintained, spacious all brick bungalow just a block from the St. Lawrence River. Over 2,000 sq. ft. of living space, formal living and dining rooms, spacious kitchen, main level laundry and family room with gas fireplace, 3 nicely sized bedrooms and fully renovated main bath. Master has 4 pce ensuite. Lower level rec room, mature landscaping, dbl garage, paved drive.
Spectacular views of the St. Lawrence River are right out your front door, you can almost reach out and touch the gigantic ships that pass by this all brick bungalow, that has a two bed rm 1000sq apartment /granny suite attached to help pay for the view! The bungalow is a 1+1 bed rm 1.5 bath with mostly hardwood and ceramic, it also has a finished basement with gas fire place. *Recently installed new septic system!
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15 Things You Shouldn’t Buy Used
Here’s information on why you shouldn’t buy those fifteen things used.
1. Helmets – In a crash, the thick foam inside a helmet costs run much higher for plasma screens and for more absorbs shock and protects your head. After a crash, the helmet may look fine, but it often has breaks or tears inside the foam. The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons recommends replacing a helmet after any crash – even a minor one. Otherwise, the helmet might not protect you in the next crash.
2. Laptops – If you take great care of a laptop, it can last through years of heavy use – but you can’t know how someone else treats their stuff. Maybe they dropped it or spilled coffee on it. The laptop could work great at first, but break down after you take it home.
3. Video cameras – The same goes for video cameras. You may not see any visible damage, but it could have been dropped, exposed to water, or otherwise mistreated. Video cameras are costly to repair, so it isn’t worth buying one used.
4. Mattresses – A used mattress can come with a lot
of extras you don’t want – dead skin cells, bacteria, hair, and every other gross thing you could imagine. It might also have bed bugs. Bed bugs live off human blood, leave itchy bite marks, and can cause skin infections. And they multiply: Females can deposit one to five eggs a day, and may lay 200 to 500 eggs in a lifetime. Under normal room temperatures and with an adequate food supply, they can live over 300 days. Bring a bed bug-infested mattress into your house, and you’ll pay a hefty fee to an exterminator.
5. Shoes – You need a good mattress and a good pair of shoes – since you’re usually in one or the other. The problem is, those used shoes may have been great for the original owner, but they’ve conformed to his or her feet. They might not be great for you. Used shoes that don’t fit just right can lead to feet or leg pain and back problems.
complicated issues. Even at the lower end, it may be more cost-effective to buy a new TV under warranty than a used one.
7. Hats – The inside of that hat could be brimming with someone else’s dead skin, hair, or worse – lice. Head lice feed on blood and cause itchy and painful reactions in the scalp. The nearly invisible bugs also travel quickly onto other people and your stuff. Getting rid of lice requires two treatments of pesticides on everyone in the household. Then you’ll have to clean your bedding, linens, clothes, mattresses, and any other soft fabric in the house. The treatment can take hours or days of hard work – all because you bought a cheap hat.
12. DVD players – DVD players often cost more to
repair than replace. For example, you take your DVD player to a repair shop because the DVDs wouldn’t load. The repair shop tels you you’d need a new DVD drive tray. It would’ve cost $55 for the repair. You bought a new one for less.
8. Swimsuits – Swimsuits hug the body. The close 13. Stuffed animals – Children love to stick stuffed contact can transmit bacteria and other diseases – which may transfer to you when you wear the suit. Swimsuits are also fragile. If the washing instructions aren’t followed, the straps might rip or the swimsuit might lose its shape. So you could be buying something that may fall apart after only a few uses.
animals into their mouths, dirt, and gooey substances. Since the stuffed animal has a fabric surface, bacteria and dirt are absorbed in the fibers. Do you really want your child putting that teddy bear in his mouth if you don’t know where it’s been?
14. Blenders – Blenders are subject to loads of abuse.
9. Vacuums – Vacuums take a lot of wear and tear. (It can break trying to force-feed frozen strawberries and (Slamming it into the wall three times trying to reach some dog hair in the corner.) That can lead to costly repairs. Considering you can buy a new vacuum for under $100, it isn’t worth the risk to buy a used one.
10. Tires – Thin tread isn’t the only safety hazard for tires – old and used tires can pose a safety risk. As tires age, they lose elasticity. As a result, the tread could separate from the tire, causing an accident. Even if the tire isn’t that old, it could have been treated poorly. Bottom line – you can’t tell a tire’s condition from the tread alone, so don’t buy a used one just because it looks good.
11. Software – Software comes with a product code, 6. Plasma and HDTVs – Old tube-style TVs held and most software manufacturers put a limit on the numup a lot better than modern flat-screens. While MSNBC says TVs cost an average of $500 to repair, the repair
used, you have no way of knowing how many times the product code has been used. For example, if the code has a three-time limit and the original owner used it twice, you’ll only be able to load the software onto one more computer before it’s no longer good.
ber of times you can reload it. When you buy software
ice through the blades.) Not to mention most blenders have not-always-invisible old bits of food stuck to the underside of the blades and in the blending bowl. Since you can buy a new blender pretty cheap – $25 for one at Target – the savings isn’t worth it for used ones.
15. Costume jewelry – Children and adult’s costume jewelry can contain poisonous substances like nickel, cadmium, and lead. The problem was so prevalent that testing and subsequent legal action by the Center for Environmental Health in 2004 led to the recall of more than 150 million pieces of jewelry for kids. While lead testing is stricter now for new products, the used costume pieces you’re buying may have lead or other chemicals. Those are the 15 things you would never buy used.
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BUSINESS CARDS
500 Business Cards, AQ coated, full color, 1 sided : $5000
1000 Business Cards, AQ coated, full color, 1 sided: $6500
Postcard Calendars
with magnet strip on back (8.5"x3.5") 500 / $19500 • 1,000 / $29500
Rack Cards (4"x9") 5,000 / $38500 • 10,000 / $70000 Taxes not included. More sizes and quantities available upon request.
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