Showing Latest Comments
Store Credit Cards Are An Even Worse Deal Than You Thought
not only has it saved you money, but it also potentially made you money. if you bought something for 2,000 on interest free no payments for 12 months then put 2,000 into savings at 2% interest you may only make 40 bucks on it over 1 year but you still made 40 bucks along with saving 500 in interest if the rate was 25% on the card. So over 12 months you had a net gain of 540 dollars.
Store Credit Cards Are An Even Worse Deal Than You Thought
The only store card that I use is my home depot one when I get 12 months interest and payments free. Pay that sucker off over the course of a year and big ticket items are no problem. Our first year in the house we bought new appliances and paid it off in 12 months, during year 2 we bought a new heat pump system and next month is when the interest rates kicks in so i will transfer the money out of savings where we made interest and then pay off the card.
If we didn't pay it off, yeah around 24% interest, but 12 months interest free and no payments is a pretty good deal for fixing things around your house.
The McRib Is Back, Along With "Legendary" Contest
I saw the commercials for it last night, I think, and then today say the banners at a McDonalds saying it was only there until the end of the month. Happy days are here again, I sure do love me some processed pork swimming in BBQ. I have tried the frozen McRib type sandwiches and nothing compares to the original. My wife is on her way out of town on business today, so I know what the cats and I are having for dinner.
Squatters Spoil Dream Home With Fake Deed Claims
mine took maybe 30 minutes, but I wish it had taken 32 minutes and I had remembered to ask for the info on my home warranty. I never got that paperwork during closing, had my heat pump die, then found out I never had a warranty because the agent never mailed it in, and ended up spending 7 months trying to get the money for the warranty payment back after I paid 6000 for a new heating system and finally filed paperwork in small claims and settled out of court for 1800. If I had spent another 2 minutes in there I would have never had the problem.
But yeah, most closings should be painless and quick.
San Francisco Officially Takes The Happy Out Of Happy Meals
um.. don't forget that is also the beginning of the rise of video games. I had a Nintendo in the late 80's, but the mid 90's is when Super Nintendo and tons of the other game systems really started to catch. The level of outside school physical activity began to sharply decline and the sedentary life style increased. Any one items by itself is not much to deal with, but couple together the rise in poor eating habits, lack of exercise, and sedentary life style and you have a recipe for childhood obesity because parents are too busy working 2 jobs to try to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads.
To blame it on the cutting of funding to schools is failing to see the big picture. The barely 45 minutes of exercise a child may get in school, remember not everyone tries in gym class, is still not enough to counter the bad habits outside of school.
San Francisco Officially Takes The Happy Out Of Happy Meals
I get the attempt at humor since we are talking about a toy and a box, I just find it to be too much of a stretch and if you look at some of the other comments this person has made today they already made the same joke somewhere else, Smell Like Justin Beiber - My World - "The the woman your man could smell like".
San Francisco Officially Takes The Happy Out Of Happy Meals
you have made an off topic comment on every post so far, what exactly is your end game?
San Francisco Officially Takes The Happy Out Of Happy Meals
Ding, Ding... start round 5 for the debate of don't tell me how to raise my children vs. pay more attention to what your children eat.
Landlord Says He Never Got My Rent, Can I Get My Money Order Back?
I know that back when I was younger and had less than stellar credit, I negotiated with an apartment complex to rent me an apartment and in exchange I would pay rent via money order every month for the first 6 months of the lease and after 6 months if I never missed a payment I would be able to send them a check.
The OP could have some type of arrangement like that with them. If you made mistakes and had bad credit it still helps to alert the rental company to what they are going to see on the credit report and try to make a mutually beneficially arrangement like I did and possibly the OP did as well.
Comments from apd09
The McRib Is Back, Along With "Legendary" Contest
you may win it over the McRib, but I make my own ribs at home. In fact I got an email from Harris Teeter this morning saying "We've looked through the weekly specials in this week's flyer and have identified the top sale items THAT YOU NORMALLY BUY! We hope this service helps you take advantage of the great savings available at Harris Teeter this week." and what was one of those weekly specials, Smithfield Pork Baby Back Ribs for 2.99 a pound, a savings of over 3.00 per pound.
You can guaran-dang-tee I am picking up a couple of racks on my home one night this week and making them for football Sunday afternoon. And I just so happen to have gone to see a buddy of mine last weekend who is a manager for Famous Daves and he took my by the restaurant and gave me a nice box of 4 bottles of sauce and a container of Steak and Rib rub.