Browsing the archives for the Money category
When I was a girl, my father would drive to the service station and an attendant would come out to the pump, fill up the car for you, wash the windshield and offer to check the oil for you while the gas was flowing into the car. If your tires needed air, he would refill [...]
Last time my daughter got contact lenses we went to Sam’s Club and were told that her prescription was out of date. Evidently a prescription for contacts is only good for 6 months now. I find that strange – a prescription for glasses is good for two years and I would think that contacts should [...]
During the divorce there were many times that there was too much month left at the end of the money. I tried to fix some basic priorities and make cuts as necessary. My first priority was the roof over our head – I paid the rent on time every month. After that came childcare. I [...]
There are several things you can do to stop and prevent the onslaught of junk mail into your mailbox. 1. Get off Lists – go to the website for the Direct Marketing Association, dmachoice.org and click on “Remove my name from those lists.” This is free, takes about 4 months to see the full impact [...]
It’s not news that the U. S. housing market is in serious trouble. For the most part, the trouble is with people who agreed to a mortgage that would adjust to a higher rate under the premise that everything would go their way and they would be earning more income to afford the higher rate, [...]