Hi Glenda, When I used to tell daughter's Female Canine to "sit" she didn't seem to pay a lot of attention. ______________________ Chemocurl, Well done. I didn't know the purchase price. I calculate, though, that one share grew to 144 ... which would make the 100 shares grow to 14,400. ... for better than $969,000. If the guy had started with 104 shares, which would have grown to 14,976 ... at Tuesday's closing price of $66.94 (somewhat lower than when you calculated earlier that day) ... today's value would have been $1,002,493.40. At your quote, it would have been $1,008,034.50 ... $5,541.10 more (a reasonably decent month's pay). Plus ... the dividend rate grew, over the years, more or less in tandem with the share price. Iva Mae, When you go to the "Stock quotes" on Yahoo->Finance, put in "RY.TO", for Royal Bank. If on Yahoo Canada, if you put in "RY" the ".TO" will be added on its own. Try "ENB" for Enbridge, "BCE" for BCE, "GWO" for Great-West Life, "TCK-B" for Teck Cominco, "TA" for TransAlta Utilities, "TD" for TD Canada Trust. There's a place where they offer "Symbol lookup" and if you write the company name in there, it'll tell you the symbol. If you ask for "Bar" chArts, instead of a line joining the daily closing prices over a period, it will give a bar linking the highest and lowest prices at which transactions took place that day, with a little line to the left showing the opening price that day, and one to the right showing the closing price. If, when you have a page where the price information of a given stock is showing, you look over to the left, near the top, there's a place where you can click on "Historical prices" and it will allow you to check the daily, weekly, monthly, etc. price levels of that stock over a given period. As a matter of fact, the price list for JNJ goes back to Jan 2, 1970. And, believe it or not, I didn't know that when I set up the project in the first place. The criteria that I used was to start a couple of years before the first split that appeared on the database that I was using. And not far from the 40-year period that I've heard to be the period during which they increased dividend rate every year. I must confess that I thought it more relevant to put this thread over on "Money Saving Tips" or "Household Finance" ... but thought that it would receive greater exposure here. And that a number of the residents here might find it interesting. Good wishes for managing your income and assets with increasing skilfullness. ole joyful

I wish I could remember the post with a similar question a few months back. Someone made the point that cabinets that don't go to the ceiling in a small kitchen may even increase the cave effect, and gave renderings to illustrate as well as reasons why that is true. It made sense seeing it. I think also if you can find a way not to fill every inch of wall with upper cabinets but maximize the space in a few as well as lower cabinet space, that will help too. Not at all knocking anyone's kitchen with uppers not to the ceiling. People have reasons for choosing that, and I hope some may chime in who have them and love them. However, I did have 36" cabinets with 8' ceilings and am so glad to be rid of them now. Why? Dust and dirt for one; also, one cat liked to jump up there and put scratch marks all over the uppers; I tended to put things like trays up there and it looked so cluttered; having no space means nothing above, a clean, uncluttered look, which can help in a smaller kitchen. (Decorative things can look nice but I never saw anything that I thought would work for my tastes to put up there.)

I know this is an old post, but I just came across it and just wanted to post an updated comment, especially in regards to "rtacabinetstore.com". Wish I had read this thread BEFORE I placed my order from them a few months ago for their Marquis Cinnamon cabinets. I had ordered a sample door and it looked pretty nice, so I went ahead and ordered my cabinets. They are of unbelievably poor quality, made in China. Some of the prices were missing stain in spots and polyurethane. The drawer sides are thin and cheap, pieced wood. Some pre drilled holes were drilled wrong, so we had to use a Dremel to correct in order to use the cam locks. I am still trying to get the issues resolved since January. I kept them because they are going in a 2nd rarely used kitchen in the basement that got destroyed during Hurricane Irene, but I would NEVER, I mean NEVER use these for my primary kitchen! I have photos of some of the poor quality if anyone wants to see them...I'd be happy to email them. I wish it had worked out better...I had high hopes that it was going to be a cost effective way to redo both kitchens in the house and all three bathrooms, which are all 40 years old and in need of updating. Plus my brother wanted to redo his kitchen and my mom her bathroom, so this was our trial run. Never again would I buy from them! They lost a lot of future business with this poor example of the quality of their products. Beware of rtacabinetstore.com!

I used Oxford Cabinet when Laverne was the installer and Jacob was the owner. I worked for 9 years as an appliance installer for Whirlpool and then several more years for Sears and Lowes, so I have been in many thousands of kitchens and have seen everything imaginable. One day I was working in a modest rancher, very similar to mine, and they had just had their cabinets installed the prior day by Laverne. I was blown away - I could finally envision what my kitchen might look like. I got the homeowner's permission to let my wife come over and see the kitchen, and we decided to visit Oxford. Long story short - we save a LOT of money over what we would have paid elsewhere for similar results. Put another way, we got a lot more quality that we would have received for the same money, had we gone to Lowes or Home Depot. Laverne and Jonathan did a wonderful job with the installation, and we have recommended Oxford numerous times to friends who have also purchased from them. I would not hesitate to buy from them in the future.