He’s Staying In A Hotel

A friend of mine is coming in from out of town and he asked If he could stay at my place for about a week. I wouldn’t have a problem with that if it wasn’t for his damn kids. They’re always stomping around and breaking stuff and I really don’t feel like dealing with that for a week strait. I’ve found a few local hotel deals for him so I don’t really feel that bad for saying no.

Which Life Insurance Is Right?

A friend of mine has really been hounding me about getting some good life insurance coverage in case something would happen to me. I’ve never really thought about life insurance much until now. I’ve called a couple companies to see what kind of options I’ve got, but I still don’t quite understand it all yet. I don’t know if I want whole life insurance or term life insurance or what.

Should I Invest With Him?

A friend of mine from work has been talking about investing some of his savings into commercial real estate. I don’t think that I would ever have the guts to invest my money into something like that. He keeps telling me that I should invest with him, but I just don’t think I can bring myself to do it. My girlfriend would probably kill me if I did it anyway.

Easy Money With Market Research

I was walking through the mall with my girlfriend a few days ago and there were some people talking around with clipboards trying to get people to take surveys for market research. Normally we just keep walking, but they were offering ten bucks per person to watch a three minute long video and fill out a little questionnaire about it. The whole thing couldn’t have taken more than 5 minutes. Easy Money.

I Might Pick Up Some Additional Life Insurance

My office is offering additional term life insurance for a limited time for any employee that want’s to sign up for it. They said that they wont require any physical examination or anything to qualify and sign up for it. I’m thinking about going ahead and signing up for it. Theyre offering it at a very nice price and I don’t really want to pass it up.

Online Coupons

If you want a good way to save money on your next trip to the supermarket or department store, then you really need to get yourself some online coupons. I’ve found it to be more convenient for me than keeping the bulk that I get in my Sunday’s newspaper. You won’t believe how many times I’ve had to tidy up my kitchen drawer. Too many coupons that I can’t keep up with!!!! And it’s rare that I use them all at the same time too. So I’ve embarked on online coupons which allow me to print on demand for want of a better word and I could not be a more happier man.

Finding The Right Real Estate Agent

What’s more worst than a puppy following you around in your neighborhood looking for some play-time? A real estate agent trying to sell you on a property. So my fiance and I started looking around for a small house to purchase to eliminate all the running around after we get married. We’ve been to a few real estate agencies but have recently put the house purchase on hold on concentrate on getting some of the wedding details out of the way. There is this real estate agent that keeps calling us every single day with various leads you’ll think that he was depending on our sale to eat. I tried to tell him very nicely to give us a few weeks to think about things but he has other plans. Next time I can’t promise to be this nice. I’ve had just about enough of this bullying.

Donating Cars To Help Children

I got my tax refund in the mail today and I’ve gotta say that I was not thrilled about the money I received. I thought it could have been much more that’s why I’m looking closely at car donation for next year. I’ve been driving around in my red Ford Explorer for years. It’s really time that I upgrade to a nice ride. At least by doing this I would be eligible for a tax reduction and would be giving for a worthy cause as well. I’m actually looking into donating my vehicle to Car Angel (CarAngel.com). It’s a non-profit organization and all of the money they make from selling donated cars and other items is used to make various childrens videos.

Here is a clip from one of their childrens videos:

A Trick to Avoid Credit Card Finance Charges

Everyone is doing some major shopping this holiday season and most people will almost certainly charge everything onto one or more credit cards. Anyone who uses a credit card knows that if you don’t get the balance paid off, you get some nasty finance charges. Depending on your interest rate, those finanace charges can really add up. There is a simple way to temporarily avoid finance charges if you can’t afford to pay off your balance as soon as you had hoped.

Go to the store and buy a money order for the full balance (assuming the balance isn’t something like ten grand). Instead of paying for the money order with cash or writing a check, just charge the money order with the same credit card that the money order is going to pay off. This will get the balance paid off, and then re-add the balance right back to the credit card, leaving you with a paid-in-full statement and no finance charges. This comes in pretty handy if you don’t have a ridiculously huge balance and it allows you to save and put money back until you can really afford to pay the balance off.

WaMu Checking Accounts

Commercials for WaMu checking accounts have been on television for a while now. I’ve always wondered if they offered free checking accounts in my area but I never really looked into it. I finally looked on their website and they do offer free checking accounts here. They only require $1.00 minimum to open an account, so I’m going to open a free checking account with them sometime this coming week. They have alot of features that my current bank doesnt have, such as free checks and outgoing wire transfers.