Archive for August, 2007

I know a young couple who recently have the privilege of finding their first home. They saved up a down payment and then went to visit a real estate agent. The agent showed them all sorts of beautiful homes, but none of them were good enough for them. So they kept looking and found the [...]

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How many of you flinch when the pharmacist tells you the cost of your medication? I know I do. Prescription costs seem to be rising exponentially year after year. But, by thinking and planning ahead, you can [...]

Whenever I travel back to my folks place, I try to throw away a few things here and there from my childhood that I no longer have absolutely any use for. I was going through my dresser and one of the drawers contained a folder with a whole bunch of documents, some relating to bank [...]

You might think that people have a pretty good handle on their money and know where all of their assets are at, but this is not the case. It’s very common for consumers to have account balance or other unpaid receipts from businesses and state governments and they’ll just never collect it. This happens very [...]

Technology has this amazing tendency to get a lot better and a lot cheaper over time, thanks for free market competition and our great minds thinking of new and innovative ways to make things happen. For example, computers used to take up entire floors of buildings and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now [...]

A lot of us have older vehicles that are sitting around not doing much good to anyone. They’re probably sitting on the street or in the garage doing nothing more than collecting dust. It’s not really worth selling them because you wouldn’t make a ton of money off them anyway, so you just leave it [...]

Home mortgage interest rates certainly aren’t as low as the hay-days of 4% and 5% home mortgages, but when doing home mortgage refinancing homeowners with good credit can still qualify for historically low-interest rates. 6.2% doesn’t seem so bad when you consider at periods in the 70’s, some people were paying a 19% interest rate [...]

Identity theft is an increasingly prevalent problem in the United States. Almost 10 million people will fall victim to identity theft each and every year. The typical victim of identity theft will have to spend at least 60 hours resolving the issues brought on by ID theft, often causing them to miss time at work. [...]

Many debt collection agencies use emotionally draining, disingenuous and generally unfair practices in their attempts to collect unpaid debt. Some scavenger collectors will now try to collect debt that’s well past the statute of limitations, use harassing techniques, and even try to collect debt from the debtor’s relatives, or people who might not even be [...]

Many younger Americans don’t even consider getting a land line these days, because their cell phone and internet connection provides all of the phone service that they need. There are some people who still enjoy the comfort and security of knowing that the land line is there if you need it. If you decide to [...]

Planning for one’s own death can be a bit of a morbid experience, but it should be considered as an act of love to your friends and family. You’re facing your own mortality in order to ease the burden on your family if the unfortunate were to happen. Everyone should have a will to handle [...]

Let’s face it, some people are just jerks. There are actually people in this world that would like to steal the money that you designate to charities! These people will eventually get what’s coming to them, but until that happens make sure your charity money goes where it belongs by taking these precautions.
Don’t Give Cash [...]

Two-hundred years ago traveling across the world was a journey that very few individuals would ever take. The intrepid explorers who made the journey had to travel across the ocean in slow wooden frigates and other ships. There were no rest stops and safe havens, just nature’s brutality. Things have changes substantially since then. Now [...]

There are some wireless providers that just offer sub-par service compared to what some of the other companies in the market are providing, and if you’re unhappy with your service, it might pay to look around and see if there’s another wireless provider that can provide you better quality cell-phone service. Sometimes you might even [...]