Yes, Mermaid I am still alive and kicking

What I am blogging about is the parity of the Cdn.$ and US Dollar is it good or bad. To our mind it is a very good thing will mean cheaper expensive goods down the way for Christmas. It is a pain for the companys who quote in US $ to get business and then find the cost of doing business is that much harder on them. Our Fiance minister says- "It will help make our Manufacturing that much more efficient".

I think He, maybe blowing smoke out his budget shoes.

We are planning on trying to cash in on the American Dollar decline by buying a chunk of it once it gets beyond parity. As a few years ago we had a 60 cent dollar so buying and selling on Ebay in US $'s made money. It makes no sense to try to sell on Ebay at this juncture as it would ultimately cost us. It is the same for the small business community here in Canada. The US is our biggest trading partner and when the greenback is down so are the imports from Canada.

The banks take 2% off the top when you purchase so we would have to be in the $1.02 CDN. and above to make the move and transfer it into our very modest American Dollar account. I checked a week ago $1,000 CDN would then buy $940.00 US and today $965.00 US. I imagine that it would be a very tight window of opportunity to take advantage of the exchange rate.

The Cdn Government likes the Loonie high so when it pays down the debt it is using less of the budget to do so. So it has more money to spread around in troubled ridings. I should have listened to Mermaid years ago about buying gold , she is quite right in her hunches. I am listening now

Do you wish you were younger?

How many times do you say over the course of a month. " I wish I was 18 again with what I know now." For a lot of people out there they just be as clueless as a young person as they are as an older person. IMHO

The only way it would work would be to go back in time, to when you were actual 18 and have the knowledge that you have now for it to be an advantage. It would be kind of freaky to have the mind set of an older person ( esp. with stuff that doesn't even exist as of yet) in the body of an 18 year old. I know if that happened to me when I was 18. I probably would have thought. " Man that was some pretty weird stuff I took last night."

Or I be so freaky to all my peers that they would shun me. ( I guess for me nothing has changed.) LOL

To have all the knowledge that I have now is possible with any 18 year old. All the facts and figures are out there on the net. After all it is just History. The only difference is one's own personal experiences and nuances that are unique to each person.
That is something no one else can really experience regardless of how much one studies someone. You are only looking in from the outside and not looking out from the inside.

Do I wish I was younger. No not at all. I wish I was thinner but that is a different subject.

What do you think?