Category: Life

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Online banking is easier than I thought

My sister has been nagging me for years to take the plunge and start managing my banking needs online and I have finally started doing so just recently and have found that it really is pretty easy and extremely helpful. And now that I have learned how to do that task I am starting to pay a lot of my monthly bills online also. It just makes good economic sense, what with the price of gas and the US Postal Service keeps raising the price of postage stamps, to be able to do the monthly tasks from right at home.

I have only had a few problems with the company not receiving the payment that I had submitted online, but both times the problem was resolved quickly and no extra charges were incurred, thank God.

I’ve always been gun shy with new technologies that are always coming out, I mean it took years for me to even consent to purchase a microwave oven. And now I don’t know what I would do with out one.

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Indian Summer

I guess we are experiencing what is called “Indian Summer” it has been in the eighties and not getting much cooler in the evenings. I had to turn the air conditioner back on. I hate the thought that winter is looming, sigh…..

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I’m Just Not The Trusting Type

From what I understand, the price of gold has gone up tremendously and people are flocking to the companies that are advertising cash for gold. I’m not comfortable in sending my old and unwanted gold jewelry to a company for them to determine how much it is worth through the mail. I don’t trust them and I don’t trust the US Postal Service.

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Treat Your Dogs Well

dog-revenge

Dogs are wonderful creatures and we are blessed to have them. I cannot abide anyone who abuses animals. If you do not want your dog, there are other people who would love to have him or her as part of their family. Please treat your dogs well – they deserve the best you can give.

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Too Much Spam Going On Here

Lately I have been getting way too much spam here on my blog. Each day I log in and I usually find more than 30 spammed comments. That might not sound like much to you but I’m certainly not used to it. I’m not sure what to do about it. Might have to talk with my brother (the family computer geek) and see if he can give me any tips. I’m still learning all that is involved with WordPress and my blog, but I’m enjoying the ride!

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Helping Out Family

I promised my mother that I would do some research for her on some of the Undermount Sinks that I can find on the Internet. She still is a little gun shy when it comes to the Internet, besides sending her emails out to friends and family, so she turns to me on occasion to assist her for things that she is interested in. I don’t mind really, she has been having a really rough time of it since my dad passed away 3 years ago, anything I can do to make things easier for her is good with me.

I’m going to find her the perfect Undermount Sink and my kid brother will install it for her. I had no idea of the variety of sinks that are available these days. In looking around I have fallen in love with the glass sinks that I’ve seen lately and I’ve bookmarked a couple of sites that have the ones that really float my boat for when I get into the remodeling mode for my own place. So far mrdirectint.com

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Getting better at bar trivia

Guest post written by Anna Bishop

When I first moved in with my roommates after college, we didn’t really have a whole lot in common. I guess maybe it was beacause we all only had mutual friends or mutual friends of mutual friends. But since then we’ve found something that unites us, bar trivia.

After a long day at work in the middle of the week, there’s nothing more that I love than totally beating a bunch of strangers with my knowledge of useless trivia. But I like to find different bar trivia places to go to each week. I was online looking up some of the better trivia places in Chicago when I ran across some info on Chicago wireless internet providers. After I looked through it some, I shwoed it to my roommates and we changed over our home internet service to it.

I think that our bar trivia skills are getting even better. It just so happens works that we all have a different area of expertise, so we know the answers to a whole bunch of the answers. If anything, it’s ecnomical because we win free drinks when we win!

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It’s Always All About The Money

I’m glad that I was sent a link to a web site that explains the risks of day trading. I have been hearing a lot about online trading, but it has all been good and positive things about it and not one word of caution about it at all. Not that I have any money to do any investing with at this point and time. But one day I hope the economy will let up and we can start enjoying life the way we used to before our government screwed it all up for us.

If you want to read about the risks of day trading you can go to daytradingcenter.net and read about it there as I did.

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Disaster Date

I have been watching MTV more than usual lately. For a long time I had nothing to do with MTV or VH1, since the days of them playing music videos have long gone by the way side and the shows that had taken place of videos were pretty lame. But since I’ve started to watch The Jersey Shore on MTV I have seen a couple of pretty decent shows that I enjoy. My favorite being Disaster Date. These poor people are set up by their friends on a blind date and then they let the fun and the games begin.

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Money Saving Tips On Prescription Eye Glasses

I just got back from getting my annual eye exam and now I armed with a prescription and searching for a cheap pair of prescription eyeglasses. My eye doctor told me that Ican get good quality prescription eyeglasses online at ZenniOptical.com so I’m going to take his advice and take a look and see if I can find a pair that I like there.

I’ve actually heard about Zenni Optical before. I saw a clip online not too long ago about a book that was recently written by the money expert Clark Howard, who spends his time finding ways to save money and passing those tips along to consumers. I remember that one of his hot picks on that clip was Zenni Optical and their massive selection of eye wear available for online shoppers. And since my eye doctor seems to think that Zenni Optical is OK, who am I to argue?

With money being so tight still for so many of us we can all use money saving tips. I think that I will take a look and see if I can find the book by Clark Howard that I saw on that clip. Maybe they have a copy of it at the library that I can check out for free for a couple of weeks.