Category: Money Matters

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Brother-in-law sends good news about his new job

Just received an interesting email from my brother-in-law with the subject line saying “heating and cooling PA”, it’s a darn good thing that I noticed it was from him, otherwise I would have deleted it thinking that it was spam. His email had told me that he had just landed a job with a wonderful company that he sent me the link to, for me to check out. The link is www.lowryelectric.com and after reviewing the site I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is around the Delaware and Pennsylvania area who is trying to find spectacular service with their Electric, heating and cooling needs.

He should do well with this job because he has been working in this field for years and its right up his alley. I hope that he will stay with this company for a good long while so that he can take advantage of the benefits that they offer because his wife is expecting their first baby in November this year and needs to have a job where there is not only great benefits but also wonderful people to work with to make his day go by quicker and feel more satisfied then his previous job.

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Little brother is checking out Personal Loans

My youngest brother, who is still living right outside of the Washington D.C. area has been having the worst luck as of late.  He lost his job right after the Christmas holidays, then his car broke down and now his wife of four years is threatening to leave him if he doesn’t get his act together.

I know how hard it is to find work when you don’t have a car to get you to and from places, granted in the D.C. area there is an abundance of public transportation available but some people just aren’t into that and he is one of them.

I suggested that he go on-line and research some of the companies that are advertising loans even if you have a history of bad credit and I know that there are several out there, it is just a matter of sitting yourself down and checking them out to see which one best suits your needs.

I suggested a web-site that I am familiar with www.personalloanspro.com which specializes in bad credit personal loans.  I’m sure that he would be categorized in the High Risk Personal Loan area, but is alright, all it would take is a few moments of his time to sit down at his P.C. and apply for his free online approval where he would go to their secure server and apply in just a matter of minutes to see if they could help him out in his time of need with one of their Personal Loans.

We all need help once in a while, it is too bad that no one in the family is in the position to help him out, everyone is strapped for cash now a days, can you believe that gas in now $3.59 a gallon. Pretty soon everyone will be needed loans just to pay for gas for their vehicles and to heat their homes with, pretty scary thought isn’t it?

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Daughter wants to check out on-line an Auto Loan

         My Daughter has had her eyes on a certain 1991 Honda Civic, and I talked to her into checking out the Internet to see if they had an Auto Loans website to see if she was able to finance the car. So we checked it out, and come to find out she has bad credit. So I had told her to check it out again, to see if they had a website for Bad Credit Auto Loans, lo and behold she found one www.autoloansmania.com.

The website advertises Auto Loans for Bad Credit “No matter what your financial situation may be, we are here for you!” Sounds good to me, all we had to do was simply tell them what type of loan you were interested in getting approved for. Once you made a selection, you will be transferred to their secure auto loan application. “It couldn’t of been any easier than that” I said.

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Fundraising, again

When school first started, they asked us parents to sign up to volunteer for some things throughout the year, and I signed up to assist with the fundraising programs. I hadn’t heard anything all year, so I thought that I had been forgotten (boo hoo), until the phone rang the other evening and I ended up talking with the Volunteer Coordinator, and she talked me into coming to the meeting to see what could be done.

At the meeting, I was asked (as were a few other moms also) to check around and come up with some ideas and suggestions for their end of the year fundraiser. The proceeds will help with the end of the year graduation celebrations.

I have been involved with fundraising events before, I guess anyone with children that go to public schools and/or participates in any kind of sport activity is all too familiar with it, for that matter.

So I spent some time on the Internet, taking advantage of quickly and easily finding the information that I was seeking right there at home, on my PC, not even having to pick up the phone and deal with voice mails, or pagers, or people not returning phone calls, playing phone tag or anything else that is irritating like that.

I found during my researching that it appears that the two most popular items that are out there used for fundraising are the custom car magnets and silicone bracelets. So I found a great web-site, www.arcmktg.com that has those two items for sale, and I think I will recommend these at the upcoming meeting that is scheduled for next week.

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Beautiful Saturday

I swear, you just can’t trust a weatherman, I would never ever consider having a relationship with a weather forecaster because they have a hard time telling the truth and you cannot trust them as far as you can throw them.

All week we have heard nothing but how Saturday is going to be rainy, all day long, and then on Sunday the weather would clear and end up being a nice day.  Well guess what, it is Saturday and not a drop has been seen or felt, it is a beautiful warm sunny day, and now they are saying that Sunday it will be raining all day.

Well they were wrong about Saturday, maybe (I hope) they will be wrong about Sunday.  I really hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow, Hubby and the youngest are to go to the flea market in the “big city” way early in the morning and if it rains it will ruin everything.  Hubby has done pretty good the past two Sundays that he went into the city, if he could have just a few more like it things would be a whole lot better and we just might be able to pay all of our monthly bills on time this month.

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The 5 cheapest places to rent in America

Saw this on the t.v. this a.m. and so I the found the article on it, I thought that this was an interesting finding and wanted to share the info with you.  According to NBC news:

The 5 cheapest places to rent in America are

  1. Wichita, Kan.  $470 a month
  2. Oklahoma City $490 a month
  3. Tulsa, Okla. $520 a month
  4. Knoxville, Tenn. $560 a month
  5. Dayton, Ohio $570 a month

I can only imagine what the most expensive areas are, I can honestly tell you that my neighborhood isn’t in any of them.

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Has Bush done something right this time

  President Bush, what a guy.  The war is still on but……….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress, facing the prospect of an election-year recession, passed an emergency plan Thursday that rushes rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most taxpayers and $300 checks to disabled veterans, the elderly and other low-income people. President Bush indicated he would sign the measure.

When we get our check, supposedly it’s expected to arrive in May, I’m afraid we won’t be going out and spending it on fun stuff to help stabilize the economy, we will be paying bills to help stabilize our very unstable checkbook.

Thanks President Bush, but now can you figure out how to end the war?

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Uncle’s new work at home opportunity

Uncle Gordon (Hubby’s little brother) is getting tired of his line of work (a long distance trucker) and has been looking for something that he could sink his teeth into that wouldn’t keep him away from his home and family the majority of time. 

We suggested that he check into being a Freight Broker, he would be doing the paperwork and logistical side of transportation, which he could do right from home, still doing something  in line with his years of trucking experience.  He’d be the middle man between the shippers and carriers, contacting the shippers and negotiating the contracts.  Next he would contact a carrier company to negotiate a separate contract for that carrier to move the load, while he never has to leave the house.  He has great people skills that would certainly be to his benefit in marketing his service, he has been trucking for so long that he surely knows a lot of people in the right places that could certainly assist him in his endeavor.

He has been told that Transport Training International is a good company that offers freight broker training and he asked Hubby and I to check out the company as to let him know what we think.  Their web site is very interesting and states that they offer a comprehensive beginners 5- day training class, imagine that, one week and you could learn everything that you needed to know to start your own brokerage right from home.  Several locations are available in the U.S and Canada and the classes are Monday – Friday 8-5, you get to leave at noon on Friday with the tools that you need and a business plan all that and more for $3,000.

I’m hoping that he will seriously consider this opportunity and I’m sure his wife would love the chance to be with him more, OR maybe he will drive her absolutely crazy and she’ll want him to get back on the road again.  Sometimes we just don’t know what we have until it’s gone!

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Now a Corp President

One of my brothers used to work with this remarkable man, Jim Majeski, years ago.  In fact some of the family got to know him on a more personal basis and attended some festive occasions way back when.  Seems that they have kept in touch through out the years and Mr. Majeski sent him this the other day.  It is pretty exciting news for him

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Are there any safe investments still out there?

I have been doing some research as of late and have found a cool web site which describes what I think would be a great place to put some of our money, a place that is secure and could possibly get a nice return on our investments.

Their high yield investments are safe and with a high return rate (12%) on first trust deeds looks great to us. This web site describes in length the opportunities and how you can get started making our money work for us.

It sounds like a great way for us to add to our IRA portfolio or as a retirement income.