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I wonder what he’ll buy next

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My electronics and gadget loving oldest brother hasn’t sent any mass emails to family and friends lately telling us about about the latest thing he’s purchased.

Usually these emails are accompanied by at least 20 pictures of the object taken at all angles. A little overkill since most of the photos look pretty much the same as the next. Thank God I’m not on dial up anymore. It was killer to get an email from him way back when!

It’s been so long since he sent a “purchase” email that I fully expect to get one any day now. I wonder what kind of new toy he’ll have bought himself? Maybe a portable GPS system or something like that?

Do you have any friends or family members that are like that? They just have to have the latest gadgets and they have to tell everyone they know about it. Repeatedly!

It’s kind of funny really.





Should I upgrade or get a new laptop?

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I’m trying to decide whether I’ll buy a new laptop, my husband could use one, or simple upgrade the one I have. I know it would probably be a heck of a lot cheaper to simply upgrade our current laptop with more laptop memory, but having a second laptop around is very appealing too.

I guess since we don’t have a lot of spare cash at the moment an upgrade is more likely … still it’s nice to dream of things we could use isn’t it?

Better insurance rates for good driving record?

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We’ve been with the same home and car insurance company since before we purchased our house. Back then, when we lived in an apartment, we only used the company for auto insurance. I guess we should have had our belongings at the apartment insured, but we didn’t. Lucky for us nothing happened!

Chris and I both have good driving records. Neither of us have ever managed to get a speeding ticket or any other kind of ticket. Well, Chris has had a few parking tickets, but that’s about it. So we’ve got very good driving records. I think maybe it’s time to call up our insurance company or perhaps another one and see if we can get an auto insurance quote that would bring down our payments.

We actually have pretty good rates right now, but I think that we might get better ones if we try to re-negotiate.

What do you think our chances of success are?

I’ve been meaning to call our insurance company anyway. Our dog is still a puppy but she’s a large breed dog (Lab) and I’ve heard that some people get their home insurance rates lowered a bit after getting a large dog. I guess it’s seen as home security.

Be an angel – donate your used car

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If you have a car that you don’t use anymore, perhaps an old car, you might want to think about donating your car to charity. There’s a non profit company in the US that makes it simple for you to donate cars, boats, RVs, a house or heck, even a plane to charity.

They use the donations to make videos like the one below for kids and teens. They’ve apparently been able to give away over 2.4 million videos so far and your donation could help them continue to help others who are in need.

Isn’t that a great idea? They’ll even arrange to have your used car or other donation picked up free of charge and they’ll get the paperwork done so that you’ll get an IRS tax deduction for your generous donation.

Are companies advertising everywhere these days?

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Have you noticed that ads that you’ve perhaps been seeing on the internet over the last year or more are suddenly in magazines and even on TV these days?

Maybe it’s just because I’m in Canada and some of these ads are finally making their way to main stream media here, but over the last month I’ve noticed more and more companies that I’ve seen doing big internet advertising campaigns advertising in magazines and on TV. You know, companies like Lifelock and ones for colon cleanse and several other products.

I thought more and more companies were turning to the internet to advertise but now I’m wondering if they’re changing their minds and going back to main stream advertising. What do you think? Are they putting their money into all kinds of ads or going back to more traditional ways of getting their message out?

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