Author: Paula
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No Check, Thank You!
You’ve just had a wonderful meal – a romantic night out with your main squeeze complete with food, drink, ambiance. You finish up your meal and then flag down the wait staff to ask for the check and they say “Sorry, we don’t have checks here, you simply pay what you think your meal and…
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High Pump Prices Just Might Fuel More Flextime and Telecommuting
The high gas prices may actually work some magic when things are all said and done. If the pain gets great enough perhaps it’ll create a willingness to try something new even in environments traditionally reluctant to change such as say the workplace. Now that I see some seriously overweight sedentary people taking the plunge…
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Save Gas, Shop Online
Running errands costs us exponentially more than it used to. I always hated wasting time shopping and going from store to store but now it doesn’t seem to make much sense at all. In the past I would balk at the cost of shipping and handling to order online but lately even those sites that…
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Monthly Home Office Expenses: Is It Feasible to Use Cell Phone Only and Lose the Landline Phone?
I am pretty diligent about reviewing my monthly expenses periodically to see where and what I can trim. Recently, I got back into doing an overhaul of expenses in light of the increased cost of every little thing and as part of the Week 1 exercises in the Business Rescue teleseminar series I’ve been attending.…
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Just Because You’re Dead Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Bill You
I know very little about estate planning and execution of financial and legal responsibilities for someone who is deceased. I know it all falls under the term estate administration, but other than that the details escape me because I have never had to do it. What I learned recently as a result of the death…
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Losing Time, Money, and Sanity with Computer Hardware Woes
My new laptop from Dell started having hardware problems 7 months after I purchased it. More than 4 months have passed and I’ve spent over 20 hours on technical support and I still have a $1000 paperweight. I have taken action with formal complaints which in theory are being “handled”. (Ask me in a week…
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Are You Happy with Your Financial Services Provider?
Does being LGBT affect our ability to find and work with a financial services provider that we truly feels meets our needs? You bet it does and a recent national survey illustrates this very challenge, and often dissatisfaction. Echelon Magazine reports this week that “GLBT Consumers See Financial Services Differently Than Others”. According to a…
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Is Your Gift Card Worthless Because the Company Went Bankrupt?
What do you do when the company from which you received a gift card goes into bankruptcy? Suddenly your prized gift (and money spent by someone) becomes literally just a piece of worthless plastic. That is exactly what just happened to me and I call it the “Santa came in July to steal my Christmas…
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Buy Local Food – It Pays More Than Once
With the cost of gas prices sky high and random contaminated food scares making the rounds regularly, it just might pay to buy local now more than it ever has. When you buy from local farmers and merchants your dollar stretches farther, you reduce your carbon footprint, and you keep your neighbors (relatively speaking) in…
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Maxed Out – The Credit Crisis in America
I recently had the chance to watch Maxed Out the movie. It is a documentary about the deep dark journey into credit card debt faced by so many people in America. It delves deep into the frightening number of things that happen behind the scenes between the credit card companies, the government, and American attitude…
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