To be honest I had not heard of the website until my wife told me about it, and she found out about it from our son, who bought a few things from it to use for Christmas gifts. Isn’t it amazing how parents learn a lot of things from their own kids? I don’t know how our son heard about it, I guess from one of his friends or co-workers. Regardless, in the spirit of making every penny count, this is a great website to check out when you are thinking about having to buy presents for people; they have great merchandise at cut-rate prices.

The Thanksgiving weekend is one of the biggest of our whole year and this year was no different. They started this thing called Small Business Saturday and that really drove a lot of people out to the store which I was really appreciative of that. Thank goodness a few weeks ago I went to www.bank-card-processing.com and had cleaned up the back room to make way for all the extra shipments we got in but you know, I guess that’s all part of the crazy days around the holidays. Business is still booming right before Christmas and I’m thankful for that and all the time I’ve had to prepare. My store is doing well despite the economy and I think that’s something to be proud of so you know, I’m going to keep on keeping on, as my dad would say. I think at this point I know what makes a successful entrepreneur and that’s all that really matters for me. Life is good as it stands and it’s only looking to get better at this point!

Whenever we go shopping together, she complains that I always wander away so she can’t find me. And then her twenty minute trip to the store turns into an hour or more! I keep telling her that all she has to do is come to the toy aisle, and she will find me checking out the latest in electronic toys! She just needs to build more time into her shopping time budget if I’m going along! And never mind how much money I’m spending on toys; after all, we ARE saving money by car-pooling in to the store!

When I run into those people who say that they still do their bill paying by hand, I ask them why they don’t use their bank’s Bill-pay service. Sometimes they say that they don’t have a computer, or Internet service. Those folks tend to be senior citizens, so I can understand that. But the people that are my age or younger, when they say that they don’t own a computer, I really have to wonder why. I don’t get the impression that they are hard up for money. I wonder if they are afraid of computers!

Well, that is, admittedly, one way to Stop Debt Collectors from harassing you – giving out the wrong “can be reached” number! When the telephone call is being made by a real live human being, I don’t mind it too much because I explain that they have reached a wrong number and then they update their records, don’t bother me again. What I DO mind, however, are the collection calls that are dialed by a machine and when I answer the phone I get a recorded message that the call is for so-and-so and if I’m not that person, to hang up.

She went online to place the order for the glasses that she wanted, but then she was dismayed to find that the company does not do prism prescriptions. My wife needs a strong prism in her glasses.

I told her that she should send the company an email, asking them to consider starting to offer prism. Looking around locally for eye glasses, she is really unhappy about how expensive the glasses are.

I wish that her medical insurance would pay for her to have surgery done on her eyes so that she could have them fixed permanently. But it doesn’t, so we just have to bite the bullet and pay out of pocket.

In the meantime, every time we hear that someone needs new glasses, we will be telling everyone about zenni glasses, and tell them that they should check them out – may as well help them to save some money!

The reason that we got that back then was because we lived out in the country and the only other options were the old fashioned analog antenna with a rotator on it. We got three channels out there. Cable wasn’t even considering coming out to our place! So when I got a big bonus from work I spent it all on a dish. If I recall correctly, it cost me several thousand dollars at the time, but it was amazing! We got hundreds of channels!

Now as satellite services have evolved, the average consumer can afford a small dish from Direct TV that is hardly noticeable from any where at all. And as the dishes themselves have shrunk, the channel lineups have grown. I’ll be interested to watch the further growth of this industry.

Did you know that there are even scholarships for left handed people?  Can you even imagine that one of the requirements of a scholarship would be that the applicant has to be left handed?  Naturally that’s not the ONLY requirement, but if you aren’t left handed, then don’t even bother to apply!  I’m sure if one looked hard enough, one could even find scholarships available for under-achievers as well!