An alternative title could be ’spend a little more to save a lot of money’, and it’s very relevant now when everyone’s personal and business budget is being squeezed. It’s a piece of advice my father gave me about buying tools - don’t buy the cheapest offerings which are made to look like the quality brands, buy the real thing - and in my case I take it a little further and prefer to buy my quality tools at a specialist ‘mom and pop store’. It might cost a few more dollars, but that’s cheap compared to the advice you get in choosing the exact tool for the job, and more importantly the long-term relationship you build up with the store owner.

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What is Change? I think change is the natural flow of things from one state to another though external factors do act as a catalyst in change happening. Reaction to change is unpredictable but manageable. Change is always happening on our planet in the form of global warming and other natural phenomena and in the lives of people all over the globe every day.

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