Tag Archives: Consumerism

Halloween Costume Time Again

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Can you believe it’s nearing October already?  I always get inspiration in the leaf-littered, full moon, windy days of October.  The sunsets up here in the high desert are hauntingly beautiful.  So now comes the question for my wife and I of where to get the kids’ Halloween costumes.  We already have seen a few [...]

Zenni Optical, My Favorite Place for Online Glasses

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Somewhere on this blog is a picture of me at the Coke museum this summer.  Those stylish glasses I am wearing are prescription and guess what I paid for them?  $8.  I think with shipping it was 11 or something, but that was the actual cost to cut the lenses and get the $ 8 [...]

Young Person's Syndrome and Health Insurance

I remember when I was 18-ish and didn’t think I should be forced to have Health Insurance. By “forced” I mean my employer, then a grocery store, automatically took fees out of my paycheck every two weeks to pay for a plan. I never got sick … I didn’t need any counseling services [...]

Debt and Peace of Mind

In the field of mental health, there is an important term called “triggers.” These are events or items that bring us to harmful lows of depression or the extremes or rage, mania, despondency etc. Financial problems are some of the most common triggers I hear from people with mental illnesses and that I [...]

Bar Stool Envy

Are you a homeowner? If so, you know how long it can take to get the furniture you want in your home. This can be due to limited finances, spare-time, or knowledge of where to buy the stuff you need. My family just purchased it’s first home mortgage so we can relate [...]

Type + Click = Auto Loan

Do you remember the first time you got an auto loan? I sure do. I wanted that car so bad I was having dreams about it. Unfortunately the thing I wasn’t having was the down-payment or the Auto Financing . Since I was only 19, you can’t really fault me. [...]

A/C Help in The Heat

This time of year you don’t want your a/c to go out in your vehicle. Especially if you live in desert region as I do. If you are in that situation however, there’s a website that can make fixing it far less difficult. Discount AC Parts.com has a complete line of ac compressors [...]

Custom Christmas Card Website

Every Christmas, husbands and wives, moms and dads everywhere have that twinge to send out the perfect Christmas card. Then, the reality of getting everyon together in the perfect picture and the other pressures of the season sometimes stifle that spark. I found a solution.
Christmas Cards Direct is a website that gives its [...]

Personalized Children's Books

Kids and parents love personalized stuff. Parents can purchase a special children’s book these days where the child is the hero and the other characters are that child’s friends and family … so exciting to a child! I remember when I was a kid we used to do MAD libs and insert our [...]

This is for All the Single People

I’ve written about how online dating worked for my wife and I on here before. Today I want to expand on that and recommend an excellent resource for choosing an online dating service. That resource is a website called: PrimeDatingSites.com. It is not a dating service, but rather a collective of reviews [...]

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