Over the past year or so my wife has been getting and using coupons for a brand name automatic dish washing detergent. She has pretty much been sticking to the store brand in the past because that is usually the most economical, but lately she has found coupons for this name brand that make it a better deal. What is noticeably different about this name brand is that she has been buying the gel packs that are very convenient to use. You just take out a gel pack and put it in the dishwasher’s soap compartment. So there is no accidental overfilling of the soap dish. In the past there have been times when I’ve opened the dishwasher and found that the dish washing powder was just dumped out in a lump on the bottom of the dishwasher and it never dissolved. This gel pack stuff dissolves easily. I’ve never found a case when it didn’t dissolve. So, I like the gel packs, and am always glad when my wife buys them! Thank goodness for her coupon clipping!
A couple of weeks ago my wife happened to be working near the shop that her mother owns, and they were getting off of work at the same time. It only made sense that they get together for dinner before heading home. They don’t get the chance to see each other very often as we live about 2 1/2 hours away from them. So it was good that they got the chance to get together and enjoy a nice meal together that neither one of them had to cook!
So during dinner her mother was telling her that right now she is the only one living in her neighborhood! She lives in a secluded area that tends to be used for seasonal vacation homes, and right now most of the homeowners have been having some kind of problem or another and no one has been around for months!
Naturally, that gave my wife cause for concern. She has heard of many break-ins of people’s homes that live in secluded areas when no one is around. Her mother is not the kind of person who want to own any pets at all, so having a “guard dog” is out of the question for her. My wife told her mother that she felt very strongly that she needs to install an ADT Home Security system as soon as possible. With an adt home security system, the noise of the alarm going off might scare off the burglars that might break into her home. At the bare minimum, the adt system would alert the police, and alert her at work, or on her cell phone that there is something going on in the house so that she is prepared to deal with it before going home and perhaps walking in on a burglary in progress. That could be very harmful to her; walking in on a burglary in progress would NOT be a good thing! The adt alarm systems are one of the most affordable alarm systems, yet one of the most reliable.
When we saw her mother again this past weekend, on Mother’s Day, she told us that she had her alarm system installed last week! We were so glad to hear that!
In this tough economy, no one wants to hear that their hours are being cut back. Unfortunately, my sister tells me that she got a voice mail message on her cell phone today while she was running errands that her hours are being cut back at work. Since she only works part time to begin with (looking for a full time job) that cut-back hurts!
I wish there was something I could do to encourage her and help her out with her finances, but in these tough times it is hard to help anyone! I told her that I’d keep an ear to the ground and an eye out for job openings and let her know if I find anything for her!
I was just listening to the news on tv this morning, while reading my emails, and noticed a story about how freegans are dumpster diving for their meals. This particular story, though interesting, was kinda disturbing. I agree that there are a lot of grocery stores and restaurants that throw away perfectly good food, but I can’t imagine going through a dumpster full of trash to fish out the food to eat. If the food was segregated from other garbage, maybe. But the food is mixed in with all of the other garbage, it could have all kinds of bacteria and filth transferred to it that might not wash off.
That story kinda freaked me out!
General life, Shopping | Dean | 
May 13, 2009 6:42 pm | 
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