Tina | February 27, 2010
Many years ago I bought AAA insurance. I always thought it was a great investment. If I ran out of gas, got a flat tire, needed a jump start, or locked my keys in the car, they were there for me. And I LOVE their Trip-Tiks! Even so, they do not take care of all [...]
Tina | February 27, 2010
I’ve subscribed to several women’s magazines for years. I recently cancelled several of the subscriptions because I noticed that the magazines seem to be re-running the same stories over and over again. The advice they hand out about how to do this or that is the same advice that they handed out every six months [...]
Tina | February 27, 2010
In this challenging economic environment, more and more people are losing their jobs. Looking for a new job is really difficult. Most businesses are trimming their workforce, not expanding it! That’s why a lot of people are looking into starting their own business. One of the biggest challenges in starting up a small business is [...]
Tina | February 24, 2010
I’ve recently starting buying things on Ebay. I had several friends who told me how they keep getting these great deals on Ebay – fantastic prices! Well, I had a little bit of mad money to spend, and haven’t had much luck finding pretty jewelry at reasonable prices up here so I decided to see [...]
Tina | February 22, 2010
One of the greatest things about the Internet is how it is empowering consumers world wide. I can remember that it wasn’t very long ago that the consumer was at the mercy of their local automobile repair shops. I can remember watching a lot of television news reports about consumers being ripped off by automobile [...]
Tina | February 19, 2010
Today is my dear sister ‘Reen’s birthday. She is one year older than me, and she has always been a source of support, advice, and love for me. We live hundreds of miles apart at this time and I miss her dearly. We haven’t seen each other in several years, but talk on the phone [...]
Tina | February 19, 2010
Have you ever wished that you had your own personal translators at your beck and call? With the global economy arriving at our very doorsteps every day, there are times when you wish you could find a translation service. It sure would be handy to be able to translate presentations, instructions, and even questionnaires from your native language [...]
Tina | February 18, 2010
With the popularity of skateboarding increasing, it seems to me that someone interested in starting a business around here, creating an indoor skateboard park might be a good idea. The weather isn’t warm enough for skateboarding year round; and the skateboarders would flock to an indoor park like bees to honey.The people who ran the [...]
Tina | February 17, 2010
I’ve been trying to do a little bit of research on cosmetics and personal care products over the past few years. I became interested in the subject when I took a course in college several years ago where I learned that so many of our cosmetics and personal care products were tested on animals. We [...]
Tina | February 16, 2010
It seems so very odd that this year we have had much less snow than usual. So much less snow that Portland had to cancel its Winter Festival for lack of snow! I’m not sure if that has ever happened before! And yet my dear family in Virginia tells me that they have been buried [...]
Tina | February 15, 2010
Winters here in New England are really hard on the rural mailboxes. It almost seems as if the snow plows take great pleasure in hitting every single mailbox possible as they drive down the road. You can drive up and down almost all the roads in this town and not be able to find more [...]
Tina | February 15, 2010
Now is the time of year that my mailbox is full of catalogs from plant and seed catalogs. I love looking through them all, looking to see if there are any new and exciting plants that I could plant in my flower garden. I’m partial to perennials, and always mindful of deer resistant plantings. I [...]
Tina | February 12, 2010
When I was growing up, I learned that you could only buy wholesale if you, yourself, were planning on re-selling the item, and that you needed a tax ID number for that. So it always surprises me when I find a business that has the word “wholesale” in their name that will sell to the [...]
Tina | February 10, 2010
Sometimes I just can’t remember the name of a song, much less the artist singing it. I’ve had this song in the back of my mind for over a year now. I just so happened to hear it on the radio yesterday and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen and managed to write [...]
Tina | February 10, 2010
I’ve always wanted a nice stemware rack to have on my side board in my dining room that I’ve been working so hard on fixing up this past year. I all ready have a great variety of wine glasses that just need a place to hang them from. For my birthday I think that I [...]
Tina | February 10, 2010
When is the last time that you have heard this tune, Whiter Shade of Pale, by Procol Harum? I can only wonder how life would have been if You Tube (or the Internet for that matter) had been available when I was a teen ager, how awesome would that have been, sigh………….
Tina | February 9, 2010
I have to say that there are a lot of artists out in the world that just leave me scratching my head. My friend Brenda was telling me that she found a website where she could buy a variety of shepard fairey art. She was so excited about it, I was ashamed to admit that [...]
Tina | February 7, 2010
It’s time to put the laptop down for a few hours. The Super Bowl is getting ready to start and I don’t want to miss any of the action. The Super Bowl is a big deal around here. It’s too bad that the weather is putting such a damper on all of the Super Bowl [...]
Tina | February 7, 2010
It always amazes me how today’s technology has become so advanced and are becoming more affordable so that more people can take advantage of all there is to offer us. Now if we could only get the insurance companies to start covering more technologies we could really see a difference. My sister-in-law just had some [...]
Tina | February 5, 2010
I got the bad news in the mail today that my favorite pharmacy is closing. What a bummer, I really like the pharmacist there. I always get the best service there. I usually don’t have to wait more than 5 minutes, unlike other pharmacies where you can wait over an hour. The letter tells me that all of [...]
