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Building a House Day-By-Day

By: Tad Phipps

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You've looked at plan books and dreamed. Maybe you've bought land or have had some passed down to you. You think you are ready to build. Don't know where to go from here? How can you pull off juggling your job, personal life and building a house all at the same time? Taking the first step to building a house can be scary. It's like jumping into freezing cold water then looking for sharks. There are so many things to consider-contractors, permits, banks, subcontracting, materials, pricing and so much more. Follow along as the author takes you step-by-step into his building process from start to finish. You'll learn from his mistakes and successes as you go day-by-day into what it's like to build the house you've been planning all along. At the end of the build, you too will have the confidence to go forth with your plans. When you finally move in, you'll know it can be a tough and grueling experience, but worth every effort!

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Cheerful Money

Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor

By: Tad Friend

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Cheerful Money

Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor

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From longtime New Yorker writer and author of In the Early Times, Tad Friend's "side-splittingly funny" Cheerful Money is both a gorgeously written family memoir and a sharp cultural study of the decline of the American WASP (Mary Karr). Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of College, and at Smith his mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W.H. Auden -- to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Tad noticed that his family tree, for all its glories, was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics. Yet his identity had already been shaped by the family's age-old traditions and expectations. Part memoir, part family history, and part cultural study of the long swoon of the American Wasp, Cheerful Money is a captivating examination of a cultural crack-up and a man trying to escape its wreckage.

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0316071447

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9780316071444

Building a House Day-By-Day

By: Tad Phipps

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Building a House Day-By-Day

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