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No Soliciting

Someone is always trying to sell me something. So much of the mail is junk. So many of the telephone calls are from paid solicitors. I wish they would stop bothering me. I have been told they get names and addresses from charities and other places people give donations to. There is even a google [...]

Last Minute Tips On Spending Your Healthcare FSA From Coppertone With Giveaway

The folks at Coppertone offered me some last minute tips on how to spend your healthcare FSA before the end of the year. There are some great ideas that many people might not think of. Check them out, along with a fun giveaway to help you start preparing now for the warm weather. Clock is [...]

Help At Home First

Legislators, help your own country first. Low cost health insurance is needed for every citizen. The national budget, state budgets, and local government budgets are drowning because of free medical care given to people in the name of charity. Americans deserve the helping hand that the U. S. A so often extends to other peoples [...]

My Electrically Heated Home

Years ago the electric company sold the public Gold Medallion Home service or, in other words, total electric homes. I bought mine back in 1969. Right after that the utility company helped me sponsor a party to help promote it much like the kind dealers have for candles, lingerie, and Tupperware. Forty years later my [...]

Taxes And Boy Scouts, The Motto Is the Same

For those of you who itemize, it is never to early to start collecting your receipts and organizing them. Allowable deductions with some offsets include: health insurance, doctor’s visits, hospitalization, medical tests, rx costs, and the one most people forget medical travel. So for those of you who have to drive miles for any of [...]

Insurance – It May Not Be Cheap But It’s Needed

I’ve taken care of the family finances for years. I do the budget, shopping, and pay the bills. One of the biggest items in our regular living expenses is insurance. We have life insurance, medical insurance (medical, dental, and vision), home owners, and automobile policies. These coverages are a big chunk out of our expenditures. [...]

Who Uses Their Sunroof?

This summer I bought a new car and, boy, was it loaded. It had everything I wanted except a sun roof. Funny thing though about sun roofs though is that I have had them in all my cars and not opened them. This time I decided to be smart and only order what I need [...]