Interesting things happen to me in the early morning hours on the Internet, and today is no exception. My friend, Tracy, posted a link on Facebook to a new auction site…one with a twist. This one, Listia.com, is a barter auction site that runs on credits rather than money. Her post said I’d get free credits to start out with if I got an account, and to...

Curiosity is going to kill this cat one day, I’m sure of it. Or at the very least, get me sucked into my monitor. After going eyeball deep in a UK mortgage site, I thought, “Let me see what, if anything is different about car insurance over there.” I found this site Cheap Car Insurance. Oh boy. The first thing I noticed is all this talk about...

Life with an adjustable rate mortgage can be very…uh…let’s say ‘entertaining’. I have been feeling the heat of my adjustable rate adjusting up every freakin’ 6 months for the past year and have occasionally gone out into cyberspace to research options. Interestingly, I found this site, Fixed Rate Mortgages based in England. The...

REMEMBING THREE SIMPLE TESTS COULD BE A LIFE SAVER !! Is It a Stroke? Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. Now doctors say any bystander can recognize a stroke asking three simple...

I’ve been watching Yes We Can over and over again, and today I found a website that gives me something concrete to do with all this inspiration to take action I’m feeling: WeAreWhatWeDo.org Their motto: Small actions x lots of people = BIG CHANGE. Check it...

With the wealth of information available online these days, you don’t have to be a finance genius to get and keep your finances in order. FinanceGenius.com provides information about everything from your Credit Score to choosing an Auto Warranty. They’ve got handy-dandy calculators and articles to read on a variety of family spending areas to help you...

First, let me say: God bless the Internet! I have made a Great Discovry:$ 8 Prescription Glasses From Zenni Optical No more of this “get two pair for only $99″ crap for me! Now, for $99, I can get 10 (count them! 10!) pair, pay for shipping and still have a few bucks left over! Oh yeah, I can have a whole wardrobe of vision correction! I’m calling...

I don’t know if any of you have folks in other countries that you talk to on the phone, but I have one customer in Australia that I need to talk to on the phone every now and then. Rather than add international calling to my phone plan, I’ve always used international calling cards. For someone like me who needs to make occasional calls, this is really the...

I just read the most inspiring, moving, makes me want to jump up and take action NOW book full of “Ah-Ha!” moments I have read in years! Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland 227 pages – 7 hours and 15 minutes in one sitting – and I am going to read it AGAIN on Thursday for Day to Read. Read. This. Book. Seriously. In fact, let me...