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Rose White’s Newsletter 10-1-09

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The topics covered in our newsletters include excerpts from all the books written by Rose White. Most books are currently available for free or for sale, although 3 of the 8 books are still being written. To read additional excerpts and reviews on each book, you can click on a book cover on the home page of www.ebooksandmoreforyou.com or go to the tab “Rose White’s Books” and scroll through the list.

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1 – American in Turkey
2 – Easy Gardens A to Z
3 – Easy to Earn Rental Income
4 – 1000s of Ways to Save $1000s Yearly (still being written)
5 – Open a Daycare Center in Your Home (soon to be published)
6 – From the Inner Heart – Illuminating Meditations on the One
7 – Southern Poems from Early 1900s
8 – Child Abuse Recovery – download your FREE ebook

1. American in Turkey

I just arrived in Turkey from good ole USA. It is still hot and sunny here, even into October. Now I am getting the summer I did not have in my cabin in the Pennsylvania mountains where the days are warm and the nights are cool.

The weather here in Turkey reminds me of Los Angeles, with its cool mornings and hot afternoons. Where I live is a small town on the Mediterranean Sea and the beaches look like Hawaii. Fruit trees (like pomegranate, orange, lemon and olive) and flowering bushes are everywhere.

I especially appreciate the sweet fragrance of the jasmine which is like a delicate honeysuckle and the red or purple bougainvillea vine which reaches the 3rd floor balconies. Even though it does not go below freezing here, the leaves will still fall off the deciduous trees before winter. The 50-foot tall skinny cedar trees dotting the landscape will remain green, though, throughout the year, as will the palm trees.

A few years ago I planted a palm tree which is now over 6 feet tall, a lemon tree which produces lemons and a red bougainvillea which will grow up in front of my living room window on the 2nd floor as well as up to my neighbor’s home on the 3rd floor.

The city is filled with 10-year-old condos and apartments. Each concrete building here in town is painted 2 or 3 pastel shades of blue, yellow, pink or green, and has lots of balconies and a red tile roof lined with a solar panel for each apartment. Each building has 6 apartments – 2 on each floor with garages underneath. Some of the buildings are taller and have duplex apartments on the top 2 floors.

The upper level includes an extra kitchen, bedrooms and several covered porches. Since summers here get temperatures above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (40 or 50 degrees Centigrade), these are used as cool bedrooms. Other flat roofs have grapevines growing up from ground level to cover an arbor to be used as additional bedrooms.

I was here one August and it was so hot I slept on my balcony several nights. Since the apartment buildings are close together, you can hear each other as they barbeque, eat or sit and talk on their porches.

One night there were 2 (count them – 2!) football games and all my neighbors were cheering them. Football in Turkey and most of the world means soccer and our football is called American football.

The children here are like kids anywhere in the world – laughing and playing soccer or jumping rope in the street. You hear “Anne” (Mom) or “Abi” (brother) or “Abla” (sister) all day. The adults are very affectionate with children and so the larger children are very affectionate with the smaller ones, hugging them or holding their hands.

They wear uniforms to school like those worn in private schools in America. The students either attend classes from early in the morning until early afternoon, or from early afternoon until early evening. They also attend special classes on Saturday and even Sunday if they are preparing for college entrance exams.

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2. Easy Gardens A to Z

Be sure to turn off the water to your outside water pipes and empty your hoses of water so that they do not freeze and burst during the first frost.

Some annuals, perennials, roses and other fall and winter flowers are still blooming, including mums (chrysanthemums), cyclamen, heather, coreopsis, lady’s mantle, sedum autumn joy and New England aster.

Also, pansies, cosmos, daisies, mums, ornamental cabbages, primroses and other flowers are still blooming. The winter daffodil bulbs which look like large crocuses bloom in the fall.

Sometimes roses and other summer flowers bloom throughout November and December. Most plants don’t like frozen roots, though, so move them next to the house or to a window box where it is several degrees warmer than out in the open.

Fall is the time to prepare your garden to rest and nourish itself over the winter. Take out all the dried annuals after they quit blooming and all the vegetable plants after they quit producing. Throw them onto a compost pile to keep regenerating free soil, enriched with vitamins.

Cut off sunflower heads for the seeds and you can eat them or feed them to the birds. Root vegetables like potatoes and turnips are now ready to eat.

Annuals and veggies which have finished producing need to be thrown onto the compost pile as they will not live much longer.

Be sure to save the seeds of plants you want to grow the next year; many hybrids will not sprout, but you can try.

Do not throw seeds into your compost pile, though, as new plants or weeds will grow where you do not want them.

In warm climates, you must dig up your tulips and other bulbs and let them dry out if you want to enjoy them the following year.

In early spring, place them in the freezer and then plant them outside 8 weeks before they are scheduled to bloom.

Do not store bulbs in a refrigerator if fruit is stored there as fruit gives off a gas which hurts the bulbs.

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3. Easy to Earn Rental Income

Before I sold my rental properties and moved to a summer cabin in the woods and a winter apartment in Turkey, I managed rental properties for 20 years in Philadelphia.

For 10 years I visited Turkey each year and stayed in friends’ homes and never paid rent. Now that I have an apartment on the Mediterranean and do not stay in it during the summer months, my Turkish friends stay in it while I am in America. And of course I do not charge them rent.

But when I lived in Philadelphia it was a wonderful business to have. I worked out a 2-page list of house rules (which is included in my book) and had new tenants sign it after we read and discussed each point. I also posted electric, plumbing and handyman phone numbers in case of emergencies so that I was free to travel to Turkey or to go camping at the shore.

I maintained my 20-room house which was 100 years old by hiring an experienced handyman (only 1 woman ever applied for the position) for the work I was unable to do, and then I would be the helper. In this way I was able to learn many new skills and save money by not having to pay a helper.

I also discussed maintenance needs with salesclerks and other customers in do-it-yourself stores.

The ad read: “Handyman, $15/hr., P/T, must know electric and roofing, [phone #].” I wrote electric because I wanted a skilled, intelligent person and I wrote roofing because I wanted someone strong.

My first ad just said “Handyman, $15/hr., P/T, [phone #]” and my voice mail filled up with over 100 calls. One man came for an interview and said he only wanted to sweep, so I changed my ad quickly.

The book “Easy to Earn Rental Income” includes everything you need to know to get started renting out rooms or apartments in your home, how to locate and select good tenants, how to get along with tenants, how to maintain the rental properties and how to buy and sell rental houses.

You, too, can start your own business with little or no money and retire early if you wish. I always thought I had a book inside me that I wanted to write and was surprised to find 9 of them.

What is your dream?

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4. 1000s of Ways to Save $1000s Yearly

Now is the time to save money during these uncertain financial times. Besides, it is always a good time to now throw away money! Look in your grocery basket, closet, fridge and trash to see how much you throw away weekly. 90% of our purchases end up in the trash eventually.

We can change that percentage to include a wonderful home life with savings and financial security. It’s all on how you look at things. Consider paper towels – what if you used rags, old towels or cotton items from the thrift store? Even a cheap roll of paper towels adds up monthly or yearly when you consider that you have to use almost twice as many sheets as you do expensive paper towels.

Speaking of thrift stores – have you been to one lately? Check out the ones in your neighborhood or those associated with hospitals. Also browse through consignment shops for spotless clothes in style at a tiny fraction of their original price. And think how you can sell those new shoes which don’t fit right, or the jacket you don’t wear because the color is not flattering on you.

Look thru your book shelves for books (and movies) you can sell at your local used books and movies stores. Or sell them online on eBay, Amazon or half.com.

My favorite place to shop is at a yard sale. Since I live in the country everything is dirt cheap – AND the items are clean! But when I moved from Philadelphia I had a yard sale and made $5,000!

It was unbelievable to me, also. When I originally moved into my 20-room house there was a lot of old furniture which Salvation Army would not take from the previous owner so it was left for me. But 20 years later, the ‘old’ furniture was valuable as it was real wood and worth hundreds of dollars each.

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5. Open a Daycare Center in Your Home

You can have fun and earn money at the same time by opening a daycare center in your home. The first year I couldn’t believe people paid me to play with kids.

I put an ad in the paper and on the first day I received responses.

“Loving Child Care. Home-like environment. 6 am to 6 pm. [phone #].”

A family with a 9-month-old girl scheduled an appointment so I hurried to the library and took out 12 books which were appropriate for her age. Then I went to the dime store and bought several toys with education value: blocks with the alphabet on them, 26 plastic letters made up of little animals, colorful plastic rings of various sizes to stack together, etc.

From the very beginning I hired a lady who had had 5 children to replace me during naptimes. Since I was open from 6 am to 6 pm, I knew I would need a break. As more and more children arrived, I hired other ladies who also loved children. That was a requirement listed in my ad:

“Must love children, P/T, flexible hrs. [phone #].”

A couple of the workers brought their own child with them which worked OK if there were not too many children in the group. I seriously followed the State requirements for child care in the home.

I responded to ads selling used baby playpens, high chairs and walkers. I did not use high beds because I was afraid they would climb out and get hurt from such a height. Also, they could play in the playpen when I changed diapers on other babies.

I bought stacks of children’s books from yard sales but I always read them first to make sure the stories were valuable.

All the toys I bought were to develop their imagination and I had a collection of musical instruments so that we could accompany children’s musical tapes or march around the house. I also included a dress-up box for hats and costumes which the children could wear whenever they wanted.

Every day I would sit on the floor leaning against the fireplace and read lots of books to them while they climbed all over me.

We also made beautiful artwork every day using lots of colored paper and crayons. We played outside twice a day in my large back yard, and when it rained, we went blew bubbles under the covered front porch.

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6.From the Inner Heart – Illuminating Meditations on the One

These poems were “dictated” to me from my inner heart, sometimes as I awoke in the morning or as I was driving down the turnpike. Other times they would burst out of my heart and I would write the poem down, rarely changing a word. I wish I were able to write more poems just by intending it.

To watch a video of me reading one of my poems and to read some of my poetry yourself, go to www.ebooksandmoreforyou.com and click on the book cover for “From the Inner Heart.”

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7. Southern Poems from Early 1900s

My Aunt Blanche would recite these lovely poems to me when I was a little girl. She had a melodic voice and everyone loved her. We would sit outside on her breezeway on warm summer nights after she had finished a day of gardening on her little farm.

To watch a video of me reading one of her poems and to read some of her poetry yourself, go to www.ebooksandmoreforyou.com and click on the book cover for “Southern Poems from Early 1900s.”

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8. Child Abuse Recovery – Free Ebook

Be sure to download your FREE ebook on the home page of our website at www.ebooksandmoreforyou.com. It is important for everyone to be aware of child abuse which can occur from infancy on.

Learn how to identify the occurrence of abuse, how to prevent it and how to help the survivors of child abuse. Also, learn how to replace addictions and negative behaviors with more appropriate ones for this time in your life.

Now is the time—make your own happiness, choose your own family and set your own boundaries. You can take charge of your life and redesign it. Post affirmations where you readily see them to remind yourself throughout the day:

- “This is a beautiful day” - “I did my best today” - “God is love” - Write your dreams and celebrate your accomplishments.

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