This week SMART Living 365 introduces you to Lynne Spreen as our last guest blogger before returning from our trip.  I am a friend as well as a reader of Lynne’s blog Any Shiny Thing.  On her blog, Lynne often writes about positive aging and other SMART ideas that I find valuable.   Thank you, Lynne, for filling in and sharing these great ideas.

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In 2007, a billboard in my town advertised a new housing tract that featured two master bedroom suites, available in their biggest model. It sticks in my memory because I was appalled. Who would buy a house with two master suites?

This was just before the Great Recession, a period of real estate excess when people were buying way too much house and, in some cases, flipping homes like pancakes. [Read more…]