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By Arthur Sneddon

Winter is just about over and spring is around the corner. Pretty soon it’ll be summer and before you know it winter will be just around the corner again. That’s when you start wondering where the year went to in such a hurry. Before you consign the year to the devil and declare it officially over before it’s even started you might want to take a look into spring. What does spring usually bring to mind? To me it tells me that I’ll have to get my spring cleaning done for the year before it vanishes in a poof of dust. That thought naturally gets me to thinking of the joys of going to the home improvement stores to celebrate the arrival of spring.

It’s really a big deal in our family and we’ve made almost a ritual of going to the home improvement stores with the arrival of spring. Through winter we just leave everything that doesn’t need immediate work and wait for spring to show its head. When this happens, it’s hello home improvement stores and goodbye savings.

Not that we regret this ritual of course. Along with spending our cash we also save by the mere fact that we don’t spend all out throughout the whole year. We might go out to the home improvement stores once in a while but mostly we try and save everything up for one really big spend in the beginning of spring.

That way we have everything we need to keep us going through the long summer months and that’s really when we implement all our home improvement schemes, which by the way, were hatched between us during the even longer, cold months of winter!

So we figure that it works out really well for us. In winter we hatch and we plan and save up with only an occasional visit to the enticing displays of the home improvement stores. In the spring we spend, spend, spend and go on a virtual shopping spree through all the home improvement stores in our area. During summer we put into action all our plans and restrain ourselves from visiting the home improvement stores.

Finally in fall, we just sit back, or more likely we collapse back, and survey our handy work. All thoughts of visiting the home improvement stores are completely gone from our heads. We’re tired and we have no more plans left to implement, and more importantly we’re broke until next spring.

Just because we tell ourselves that we won’t visit the home improvement stores in the months of summer when we’re into renovating though, doesn’t mean that we actually manage to restrain ourselves. After all who could restrain themselves with that greatest of all enticements: Sales! We know we can’t which is why we’re broke by fall.

Author Details:
Arthur Sneddon, copywriter for various websites including, The A to Z of Home Improvement, part of an ambitious project to cover various subjects.

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