Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Content by Sol Rosales
I’ve been working about 60 hours a week for the last year, so that has been tough on me. When I’m not working I try to spend most of my time catching up with my husband, who also has a very busy schedule at work. Sometimes we both work so much it feels like we are just roommates who see each other in passing instead of spouses. Because both of us work so hard, a lot of our home life is disorganized and crazy. We have a hard time fitting in our friends and family, and forget about taking care of bills. Sometimes we discuss making adjustments at home, like changing wireless internet providers, but then we just forget and it never gets done. I’m grateful that we at least have a maid who comes in once every other week to pick up after us, because if it wasn’t for her our house would probably look like a science experiment gone bad. I really don’t think that we can go on like this for much longer. I hope work slows down soon so we can spend some time together and get organized.
Tags: bills, family, forget, home, husband, im, maid, roommates, spend, week, work, working, year
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Got up early and took my DH’s truck into town to have it state inspected. The garage opened at 7:00 am, I got there at 7:05 am, and still had to wait an hour and a half before they could inspect it! I tried a few days ago to make an appointment to have it inspected, but all of the garages that do the inspections say that they can’t do that – it is first come, first serve. **Sigh**
Thankfully, their waiting room had a television in it, so I could watch the news while I waited, and there was a pleasant woman in the waiting room that I chatted with to pass the time.
Afterwards, went to Staples to pick up tax preparation software, I have found that I can save a lot of money by doing our taxes ourselves on the computer and filing online instead of paying someone else to do it. Now I just have to wait for all of the forms to come in the mail from all the employers/banks etc so I can start to file them. I’m sure we will get a refund this year.
Tags: am, appointment, inspected, lot, money, taxes, television, truck, wait, waiting
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Is it even possible to fall in love with a website? Well, having just ordered some FREE toe warmers from nomorerack.com I have to say the answer to that question is YES! Here’s the scoop: my sister sent me an email about how she heard on television about a bargain website called nomorerack. This website offers great products at ridiculously low prices, for a very limited time.
Well of course I had to check it out for myself, and within a matter of seconds I was a registered user of the website and ordered myself a set of FREE toe warmers! As a matter of fact my toes happen to be freezing right now, sitting at my computer and I have two pairs of socks on! Seems to me that the only time my feet are ever warm is the month of July!
Anyway, back to the bargain website – I was looking all around and it appears that every day there are new offers put out on the website. The great deals are only offered for one day. The next day presents the shoppes with new merchandise to choose from. Apparently there are limited numbers on the products, because several of the deals that I saw on the website were already sold out.
There are some buttons on the website that you can click on to see past deals, and a button to click on that calls itself “insanity deals.” Apparently with the “insanity deals” the website displays a very short term crazy deal that has such a low price that it seems obvious that the website is using it as what is known in the retail business as a “loss leader.”
One of the “insanity deals” that I certainly wish I had seen when it was offered was for a Kindle Touch for under $20! My husband and I were just talking last weekend about whether to purchase an e-book reader or not. We are a little bit reluctant because the price seems to be a little bit steep for our budget right now. Another great insanity deal was for a Canon camera worth over $400 on sale for less than $20 as well! I am definitely going to have to bookmark this website and check it out every day to see what bargains can be had!
Tags: deals, seems, website
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
This cool car company called Tesla Motors has made a totally electric sports car that can go from 0 to 60 in less then 4 seconds and has a top speed of over 125 miles per hour.
On a fully charged battery the car can operate for about 3 and a half hours and runs on no fuel whatsoever, making it a zero emissions car.
its a really great looking car, and if you have solar panels installed at home it costs you nothing to recharge the battery, so you will never have to pay for gas or to charge the cars battery.
The price tag on this car is at $100,000 per car, but is well worth every penny in my opinion because of the looks and the features and the huge potential savings on fuel.
Tags: battery, fuel, pay, per, recharge
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Guest post written by Joseph Finch
My roommate and I had the biggest argument the other night about Internet Service Providers. It started as a simple conversation about changing our internet provider, but she wanted to go with an one I thought was way too expensive. I was being stubborn, and then she got mad. It’s funny how the smallest thing can start a fight between roommates. One day you are best friends, and the next you are back at each other’s throats. Sometimes we spend weeks without a problem and even hang out and have fun together. But then, something sparks a fight and we are on bad terms again. I really do like my roommate, and hope we can patch things up again. I think I need to calm down a little and cut her some slack. I can be a control freak sometimes, and I’m sure it’s not easy to live with me. It’s really too bad I can’t afford to live on my own right now because I think that would be better suited to me. I like to have things my way and that’s not always easy for those stuck with me.
Tags: bad, fight, internet, roommate, things
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