So a few of us met up and had coffee @ a nice cafe downtown and decided to do some scavenger hunt online for the house – because we had seen this idea in country living’s magazine – and wanted to use the same idea for our cottage. While having coffee – we also chatted about the usual stuff like life – cooking, insurance and how we all use the life insurance calculator to come up with how much we should insure ourselves and our houses and its contents.
If you haven’t been networking of late – you should try – because the information you get from your friends – and ideas are invaluable. But the cafes they find are even better – love the internet – and love the yakking – you should try it sometime.
I pride myself for being a savvy shopper and I tell my kids I never buy anything unless they are on sale – the spouse also teaches the kids the same way. The other thing I do to save money when shopping or get a better deal is through coupon codes – I’m addicted to them. I shop at walmart very often for all my things from a trampoline to goggles for my children – so when I saw these walmart coupons at dropdowndeals i just had to bookmark this page – it’s awesome!! and every little bit counts I tell you ! Whether it’s for shipping or for 5 – 10% – they are still savings one cannot ignore. Buying smart is the way to go in this economy of ours.
Who doesn’t? but seriously what do one do if you need money like now or yesterday? can’t go to your friends or family – in case they look down on you and think you are a loser and can’t support your girlfriend and kid right? Luckily for us here in the West – there is this payday loans you can go to as long as you have a job. I know what you are going to say – you crazy ? don’t you know about their high interest? of course I do – but if this money can tide me over for now – I will be able to budget better – for emergencies like this. And yes ! it can be done – I’ve done it before and paid off my high interest loan – survived it – and make a turn around – so don’t blame anyone else – except yourself if you go deeper in debt.
Owning a small business is no easy feat – not only do you need to have money for all your products and inventory – you need to have good business acumen. And one of the things I had been meaning do is get an online data backup for the store – now that would definitely be a lot easier for us – in the future. The software isn’t expensive at all – and it would definitely make your small business a lot more efficient and no more worries about losing important information. From backing up your music, photos, documents and spreadsheets – great for home user and better for small business owners.
The spouse wants a small car to zip around town – but not the above – and the one that she wants – even with the cheapest auto insurance , I doubt she wants to pay so much for it. I went to Kijiji to search for a small car - but she is into the Ford Mustang convertible or the Mini Cooper – which both models are hard to come by used at a reasonable price. My own auto insurance is reasonable not the cheapest though – so if we are getting a car for her too – I need to really look for a much cheaper auto insurance. This time – we are buying a used car – and paying cash for it – no financing for please. So with cash payment – you know how much one can afford right? She doesn’t want a huge car – she is afraid that she can’t handle it and she can’t drive a standard too – women!!
When my kid was born – a customer who turned into a friend gave her an American silver eagles as a present/token for her birth. My kid wasn’t even a year old then – but today – we took out the American silver eagles to talk about the coins and do a little bit of history of America. I really think it is a great gift for any kid and even one that is just going to college. To me the American silver eagles reminded me to work harder and save enough for the kid’s college fun. A very thoughtful gift indeed.
My mom was a midwife before she retired and like any LPN she enjoyed her work tremendously even though it was hard work. Back home, she didn’t have a choice but to work for a government aided hospital but these day with a nursing degree, a LPN can go anywhere around the world and find a job in the health care industry. Back then there were no online nursing degree where one can upgrade yourself and get a degree in nursing – people are so lucky now – they can do that while working without the pressure of going into a classroom. I like the idea – don’t you? But of course, like any online studies, you have to have some ambition and lots of discipline – coz’ its very easy to lose track and become lazy. But no one should have any excuses not to be able to upgrade yourself now that online courses are available and recognized and CCNE Accredited.
Inspired by the neighbor’s new garage door – and his garage door opener – the spouse also want to have our garage door changed with automatic doors. Her reasoning was, she didn’t want to see me going out in the bad weather and trying to fight with the old garage door. Plus, she said she can get the same contractor that our neighbor used since we like the design. But it’s an advantage to have a automatic garage door – especially since our home don’t have any trees or house behind or in front of us – to shield us when the weather is bad, so we are looking forward to a new designed garage door and I’ll be a few hundred dollars poorer.
So we all know we loved our gadgets and some would get a payday cash advance just because they want to own the latest gadget there is to be found – we know of a few customers of ours who does that *shrug* and nothing wrong with it – if you know how to pay your bills on time. So is it necessary to get a cooling pad for you laptop – I’ve been asked several times at our store. A pretty cool gadget – for just $38 – but if your laptop is heating up too fast and too hot – then you should bring it to a computer geek like our store – Gator Bytes Computers and have us blow out the dust in your fan. More likely than not – it’s because your fan is all clot up and can’t move. For permanent fix – get your laptop cleaned so that you don’t burn anything inside your laptop. The cooling pad is great – but it’s not a permanent solution. So if you are getting a payday cash advance – you probably want to use it in a better way – then a gadget that you would have to put aside in storage later.
The spouse is into the “feng shui” thing and for those out there who don’t know what the hell I am talking about – it’s a chinese practice of wind and water. So when we started our business – the spouse would by fountains to be placed at home and at the store but one thing she had forgotten to to constantly keep the water clean in the fountain. Maybe that was the reason why we didn’t do good at the store a few years ago? so when we rid the fountain at the store and bought a new one – we were told about the water thing – so now – the store is definitely doing better. Is it really the magic of that fountain – or did it business turn around just because we are the longest standing store for movies/video and computer repairs? I can’t answer you that – but if it works and make the spouse happy – she can buy as many fountains as she wants.
