I have to give my niece a little bit of credit for creativity, although I’m not too happy about it. What is it I’m not happy about? Well, apparently she has been giving out my cell phone number as a “can be reached” number on a number of her credit accounts. And you can guess what happened next, right? Right, she has fallen behind on paying her bills, and now I’m getting a lot of debt collection calls for her on my cell phone!
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.
My wife has been putting off buying new eyeglasses for over a year now because they are so expensive. She found a website where they sell discount eyeglasses and she was really excited about trying them out – so she went to her eye doctor for another check-up (since her last appointment was over a year ago) and got a fresh prescription.
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!
I am outraged at how the consumers are being ripped off once again at the stores. Companies are raising their prices and providing less product, both at the same time. This means I often have to buy two of a product when I would normally only buy on. When I think of how much more plastic and cardboard is being wasted and put in landfills, just so I can have the products I need, I get really upset. We are paying more money for a product AND creating more waste at the same time. This really bothers me a lot!
I can remember the first Satellite TVdish that we got back in the early ’80s. That thing had a ten foot diameter! We had it in the side yard where we only saw it from a couple of windows, so it really wasn’t too distracting for us. At the time we thought we were the most technologically savvy couple in the neighborhood!
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.
One gets the impression nowadays that finding money to go to college is easy to do. After all, there are plenty of pre med scholarships, engineering, art, dance, criminal justice and technology scholarships to go around, right? And everywhere one looks there are african american scholarships available in every field of study.
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!
Business and work, General life, Money and finances, Rants, Relationships | Dean | 
October 10, 2011 5:46 pm | 
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