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The Coffee Cup Revolution

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

MMMM your morning coffee, your cupa joe, your java.  Can’t beat it and stopping at your local coffee shop is a GREAT treat for many and a required fix for some.  Over at WiseBread, Nora Dunn speaks about the problems and a GREAT solution for disposable coffee cups. I agree with her whole heartedly and [...]

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Tags: Saving Money

Holiday Batteries

December 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

(to the tune of Silver Bells)
Blinking flashlights,
R/C motorbikes,
Hand held gaming machines.
All running on those small cylinders.
Energizer,
Duracell
Even Raovack in demand.
By all the gifts that have been given this year.
Batteries,  Batteries…
I’m all out of batteries…
Toys don’t run… things don’t hum…  Even the dolly won’t play!

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Tags: Home and Family · Saving Money

Hate the plastic, tolerate the Dollars, love the coins or Sense with Dollars

November 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Most of us have them that light, easy to carry, easy to use plastic card.  Most often a credit or debit card or even a gift card.  They are SO convenient and wonderful.   In recent years the use of plastic instead of bills has increased so much.  Go into most gas stations and you can [...]

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Tags: Financial · Saving Money

Too many phone numbers? Try consolidating

November 4th, 2007 · No Comments

I have a home phone, business phone, cell phone, and even a VOIP number.  Yeah that’s a LOT to keep track of and tell people.  Plus it’s always great to have a person ‘loose’ your number.  There is a GREAT service that was bought out by Google and it works great.  Clients don’t know if [...]

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Tags: Saving Money · Websites

Forced Saving

October 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Remember the old piggy banks that you had use a butter knife and jiggle or SMASH in order to get out the money? How you would try and remember how much is in there? I’ve tried to use the jar to hold my spare pocket change but with kids my jar usually [...]

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Tags: Home and Family · Saving Money

Adsense makes a lot more sense

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Over the next couple weeks Google will be doing a phased rollout of  a NEW Adsense feature.  Where you can create Adsense code and then modify the way the ads display from the Adsense without changing the code on the pages.   This will save a LOT of time for those who like to change the [...]

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Tags: EBusiness · Web Development

Cold weather approaching and the dreaded heating bill is on the horizon!

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

With many are getting ready for winter. The concerns about heating costs are on everyone’s mind. As oil prices are high keeping warm almost seems a luxury. But rather than have icicles on ones nose when in the living room. I’ve complied a list of tips and tricks to keep [...]

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Tags: Home and Family · Saving Money