Tired of paying upwards of $100.00 or more per month for a bunch of channels on Satellite TV you never watch? I was. I have dish network and I had the top 250 package with locals. With the product insurance and DVR fee I was paying around $105+ per month. Those clever dish network people have planned their packages so you have to subscribe to the highest basic package in order to get the channels most people like to watch.
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Due to high fuel prices, farmers have parked the tractors and instead have decided to unleash the full fury of mules on their fields. Wow.
With gas at $3.69/gallon, have you decided to drive less, drive slower, or not drive perhaps? Was $3/gallon the tipping point, or are you waiting for the inevitable $4/gallon? Personally, we have been driving less since $3 and slower when gas hit $3.50. I have noticed a marked change in the speed people drive on the interstates; especially the larger trucks. My Subaru gets over 26 MPG, so I am not feeling the pinch as much as some people, but it still hurts.
Stopping the telemarketing calls: Register your home phone AND your cell phone at the official donotcall.gov website. You simply enter in your numbers and your email address. They send you a link by email you must confirm to finish your registration. Since I registered my numbers, I haven’t had a telemarketing call in over a year.
Stopping (most of) the junk mail:
(From obviously.com) The amount of paper junk mail sent each year in the USA is staggering - some 4 million tons, nearly half of which is never opened. Even if you recycle there are still enormous environmental costs in terms of ink, energy to produce deliver and recycle the paper, recycling inefficiencies and loss of virgin forest to create the high quality glossy paper much junk mail uses. There is a lot you can do to reduce the cost to the environment and your own time: Continue reading ‘Leave me alone’
From the FTC:
Your Access to Free Credit Reports
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at your request, once every 12 months. The FCRA promotes the accuracy and privacy of information in the files of the nation’s consumer reporting companies. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation’s consumer protection agency, enforces the FCRA with respect to consumer reporting companies. Continue reading ‘Free annual credit report’
If you have a few minutes during the day in front of your computer, you have the ability to earn extra money by participating in online surveys. The surveys are quick and painless and I don’t get spammed like I thought I would. In fact, I have never received spam from any of the survey companies I signed up with. There are no commitments and signup is easy. I recommend the following sites that pay cash for completed surveys:
There are referral benefits offered with the above survey companies, so once you sign up from the above links, use your referral links to invite others.