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GARRY’S FLOORING

Home Advisor™ Reliable news for healthy living, saving money, and having fun! October 2011

Inside This Issue… Are you this month’s Mystery

Winner?

Holidays this Month

About staying well - Balance

Home Advisor – Talking Green?

Work tips – SMART Goals

Mega Trivia Contest

Client of the month

Smarter than Chimps?

Moneywise – Triple Touch Pad

Welcome to our new and returning

clients!

I promise that you’ll love your new floors, or we’ll replace them

FREE dog-gone it!

Call me today for a complimentary Design Audit!”

-Garry Combs & Gala

www.garrysflooring.com

Dear Friends,

Fall is in full swing! It’s one of my favorite times of the year, watching the trees turn color,

enjoying the crisp mornings, warm afternoons and the weekend camp fires with family. I

love the ruthm of the seasons. I think God made each season just long enough so that we

can fully enjoy it, but by the end of the season we are ready for the change.

Also, with fall come plans for Christmas and the other Holidays. Many of you, or those

close to you , will be thinking of getting those beautiful new floors in time for your parties

and family get togethers. I have a couple of ways to help you.

First, I have some amazing financing programs that won’t cost you one red penny

To take advantage of . There’s no reason not to have fabulous floors for the Holidays.

Second, If you call or visit my store right away and schedule an appointment, I can

guarantee that you’ll get your new floors in well before Thanksgiving, and ahead of the

crowd. See this month’s insert for all the details.

Any friend of yours is a friend of mine. Who do you know who wants new floors for the

Holidays? Can I count on you to pass this newsletter along to them? You’ll be doing them a

tremendous favor by referring them to a flooring dealer they can trust.

I’m looking forward to seeing you or anyone you refer to me this month! Drop by Garry’s

anytime the coffee is always on!

I hope you enjoy this month’s issue of the Home Advisor!

Your Friend,

Garry Combs

Holidays This Month:

Saturday, October 8th Yom Kippur – Jewish Day of Atonement

Monday, October 10th Columbus Day (US) – celebrated since 1866, commemorates Christopher Columbus’ arrival in America, and the contributions of Americans of Italian heritage. Thanksgiving Day (Canada) – perhaps because the growing season is shorter in Canada, thanks for the harvest is given a month and a half earlier than in the US.

Monday, October 31st Halloween – All Hallows Eve, to give it its full name, is nowadays more famous for ghosts and pumpkins. It was originally a religious holiday, the evening before All Saints’ Day, also known as All Hallows Day. All Saints Day, November 1st, is still a national holiday in some historically Christian countries.

Attention

Mary Kay Vitek! You are this month’s

Mystery Winner!

We have a $10.00 gift certificate to

Grandma’s Restaurant reserved

just for you! Come by our store to

claim your prize!

Garry’s Flooring

1484 N State

Belvidere

Scan to link directly to our website!

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Who Else Wants to Win a $10 gas card! Take our Trivia Challenge and you could win too!

This month’s MegaTrivia question…. Which of these animals weighs the most

when full grown? A) Moose; B) Grizzly Bear; C) Elephant;

D) Hippopotamus; E) Blue Whale. ” Take your best guess…your chances of winning are better than you think!

Then e-mail your answer to www.garrysultimate@gmail.com or call us with your answer 815-544-4200

Answer to last months quiz: Canada! Congratulations to last month’s winner: Pastor Dale Anderson

About Staying Well: Balance

Know Thyself is as a preliminary step. Where are you now?

What sorts of goals do you want to set for yourself? (see

SMART Goals, this issue)

But “Nothing in Excess” applies in all areas of our lives. If

you’ve been a dieter you know that some diets are very

extreme….nothing but bananas the first three weeks.

We know this sort of imbalance is NOT good for us, but we do it

anyway.

If you want to lose weight, a realistic balanced set of goals might

be:

Don’t change your diet, just eat 10% less

Incorporate healthier foods gradually

Walk three times a week

This sounds so trivial, you may dismiss it, but the simple truth is

often the best.

Cushion The Unseen Comfort

You wouldn’t build your home without a foundation. So

don’t put your carpet in without a foundation either.

TripleTouch Carpet Cushion The best in luxurious cushion

Benefits:

Unsurpassed Comfort Underfoot

Extended Product Warranty

Environmentally Responsible

Eight out of ten consumers prefer the comfort of Shaw’s

TripleTouch cushion compared to other carpet cushions!**

You will probably spend considerable time choosing new

Carpet, but the cushion underneath is equally important. So

make high-quality cushion a high priority … it’s a must-have

For extra Carpet life and Comfort

It’s easy to jump on

the latest trendy

bandwagon, but the

simple truths are the

same as they were in

ancient Greece:

Know Thyself and

Nothing in Excess.

Talkin Green These days we all want to have green both inside and out, especially since there are such stylish carpets that are good to the planet. Carpets of Anso® nylon are 100% recyclable. Even at the end of their life they are turned right back around into brand new beautiful carpet and the cycle will continue on with the same brilliant color, fiber quality, and performance.

Anso nylon carpets have Shaw’s best warranties. R2x®, Shaw’s patented stain and soil treatment, offers protection against the brutality of everyday spills and soiling. Simply put, there is no better stain resistance system!

Can you believe all this in a carpet that’s also eco-friendly? Well believe it and just sit back and sink into absolute luxury while saving the earth’s resources.

Anso nylon. Green by nature. Fashionable by design.

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Client of the

Month

Thank You For The

Kind Words!

Congratulations to our client of the

month, Jeanne Luse.

Jeanne is a returning client, and she

recently purchased new laminate floor

for her kitchen. It’s always a pleasure

to work with Her. The cork floor still

looks great! Thanks, Jeanne!

As always, our clients of the month

receive 2 movie passes for AMC

Theatres!

Watch for your name here in

a coming month!

One Cozy Couple

Skip & Barb Dallemolle

We researched wood flooring at

several locations to try to match the

Builders flooring we had in our

kitchen. Most places just told us they

couldn’t match color. Garry called

Shaw from our home on a Friday night

to see if the floor was available any

ware we knew when Shaw answered

he had pull and cared about us. We

then went back to Garry’s Showroom

and discussed options our floor was

discontinued but Garry was very

helpful in figuring out what might

look great! With the final choice being

ours. Installation was awesome the

workers Mike & Luis were great -very

professional – cleaned daily & kept us

informed as to what they were doing.

We Highly Recommend!

Work Tips: SMART Goals Back in the day, working in the corporate world, I was subjected to

loads of training and performance evaluations. Gosh we all love

those, don’t we?

I learned about the SMART goal system, and although I hated it at

the time, perspective has given me some clarity. SMART goals do

make sense. Setting goals is important, both in personal and

business life. Otherwise you flail around, trying to do seventeen

things at once while telling people how good you are at multi-tasking.

Let’s run through some quick examples to see how the SMART goals

work:

S is for Specific: Don’t say “I’m going to walk more”, say “I’m going

to walk 5 miles a week”.

M is for Measurable: How will you know if you attain your goal?

Get a pedometer and track your mileage after each walk, or walk a

route that you’ve measured.

A is for Attainable: Don’t try to walk 20 miles a week, not at first.

R is for Relevant: If you work as a bike courier, this may not be

something you need to do. If you’re a desk jockey, it’s worthwhile.

(Don’t promise to quit eating pizza if you don’t like pizza.)

T is for Timely: You need to start right away, then assess your

progress after 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months and perhaps reset your

goals.

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Smarter than Chimps?

An accumulating body of research suggests that the second most

intelligent species on the planet may actually have wings.

The New Caledonian Crow has been rocking the laboratory world with

its ability to out-think chimpanzees in tests that require sophisticated

tool-using logic. One experiment placed food in a box out of the crows'

reach. They were given a stick too short to reach the food, but they

could use it to get a longer stick from another box. The longer stick

was then used to retrieve the food.

It was solved by six of seven birds on the first attempt. Worst of all:

they didn’t even have to think about it!

Get A Night Out At The Movies With My

Referral Rewards Program As you probably know, advertising is very

expensive. Instead of paying the

newspaper or other place to advertise, I’d

rather reward you. So I’ve assembled my

Referral Rewards Program. Every time

you refer someone who becomes a client, I

will send you a gift certificate for two

passes to the AMC theatres. And Hey!

What’s a movie without popcorn? The gift

certificate will also cover a big box of hot,

buttered popcorn and sodas!

Don’t visit any flooring dealer until you read this FREE Consumer Awareness Guide!

You will learn… ● 4 predatory sales tactics ● 7 costly misconceptions about flooring ● 5 questions to ask a dealer before buying

Stop in or Call us Toll Free 1-855-GARRYES

New Friends

And Clients!

A list of the categories in which crows

have proven their superior reasoning:

Tool-Making

Problem-Solving

Causal Reasoning

Facial Recognition

Information About Us

Garry’s Ultimate Flooring 1484 N. State, Belvidere

815-544-4200

www.garrysultimateflooring.com

E-Mail:garrysultimate@gmail.com

Meet our new clients… Helen Willit

Skip and Barb Dallemolee

Mike & Kim Brocklehurst

Mary & Ben Barron

Bill Stone

Joan & Chuck Cann

Jim & Bonnie Williams

Doris Alvin

Linda Peterson

Welcome back to our returning clients… Sylvia & Ron Mueller

Myron Howard

Sherry Casey

Bob Tripke

Jeanne Luse

Kevin & Jill Walton

Mary Kay Vitek

Mike Stempfle

Linda Brettschneider

Marty Weightman

Jan Hardy

A gigantic THANK YOU to all who referred us last month… Curt Levoy

Richard & Tammy Bahling

Stan Colver