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This whole series has been about big things—things that you would do when money is no object, and you have much at your disposal.  The reason for this is that we, as guys, rarely shoot for the big things, and many times because we do not plan the big things we sometimes let even the small things fall by the wayside.

It’s important that our wives know that we love them—and we can show this using one of the 101 Ways to Say I Love You Without Saying It.  We can use one of the 31 Ways to Say “I Miss You” when we’re apart.  We can even be a geek and use the 101 Ways to Show Your Love to a Geek.  The point is that we must be doing something.

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Americans collect junk.  No, seriously.  If you look at any other civilization across the world, we’re the number one owners of junk—I believe—that can be found.

And I’m probably one of the worst culprits.

You see, I am one of those guys that likes to keep old school materials because I believe that someday my kids will get some use out of the math problems I did in school.

Stop that laughing—I’m serious! (or at least partly so.)

This generation of adults have more access to other people’s money than at any time in our nation’s history, and they believe that they need a house full of stuff just like their parent’s house, and they need it now.

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In college, we had a yearly event called a dating outing.  It was a time when my society got a chance to put on an event—either formal, at a park, etc—where the guys could invite girls to do something a little out of the ordinary.

One year we were at Paris Mountain and I was in charge of making a scavenger hunt for three different groups.  The idea was that they would go from place to place looking for clues that would get them to an end goal.  The cute part was that the three guys that were planning it sent their dates a clue that had to be read at one point in time.

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One of the things that I really enjoyed at my college was the dramatic arts there.  We were really spoiled in that we had Vespers—almost every other Sunday performance of drama, music, and readings—speech contests, Operas, Shakespearean theater, and small plays that we could attend.

Most of the time these were big events.  Guys would get out their best suits or rent a tux.  Girls would get out the equivalent of prom gowns.  They would get gifts of flowers and candy for each other, and they would get to escort each other to the place where the production was to take place and enjoy the night together.

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On Friday we talked about taking some time off away from family.  The problem is that if you’re really going to spend time at a location far from your children, you need somewhere to stay—somewhere that will have the amenities of home without the reminders of the stress.

One option is to find a bed and breakfast.  There are many that have all sorts of features: massages, breakfast (of course!) and quaint little towns.  Plus you don’t have to clean up the house.

Another option, if you want to stay away from hotels, is to find a place that does Vacation Rentals.  There are sites on the web that can help you find Florida Vacation Rentals or if you want to get off the mainland but still be in the U.S., there are Hawaii Vacation Rentals.

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Vacations can be lots of fun—but what usually happens is that you need a vacation to recover from the vacation.

There’s all these things that are stacked against you:

• The long car/plane trips
• The unfamiliar beds
• The late nights
• The early mornings
• The whiny kids

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My wife likes to camp.  I’d only been camping once in my life.  And that was in a POP-up camper.  And it was hot.  And I thought I never wanted to do it again.

A couple years ago we went camping with tents out to a place that had a beach where you could see the sun set over the water.  It was amazing.

It’s been some time since then, but we still have the desire to get back out again.

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