Holy cow, I am getting irritated with the price of my medical plan going up while the overall benefits go down. I was paying less last year and all I had to cover were my co-pays. Now, not only do I pay more monthly, I pay a co-pay plus at least 10%. Right now I […]
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by onecleardot
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If you make a promise, whether in writing or simply via the words that come out of your mouth, you need to be willing to settle in the end.
Back during the Civil War, the city of Tampa issued a promissory note to storekeeper Thomas Pugh Kennedy in exchange for ammunition and other supplies. The city […]
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by onecleardot
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I already drive less now that gas prices are up. It is just not worth it to me to damage my budget in order to tool around town a little more. Additionally, we are buying far less when it comes to non-essential foods and entertainment products.
Get this: one gas station in the tiny town of […]
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by onecleardot
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I think most people understand that high interest loans, like payday loans, are not the absolute best way to borrow money. Nonetheless, as the price of milk, gas, wheat and housing skyrockets, more and more people are finding that living hand to mouth has turned into living on next month’s paycheck. The working middle-class cannot […]
Posted on March 9th, 2008 by onecleardot
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One of the absolute hottest search terms today is “how to make money online”. People all over the world have discovered that you can use the internet to bring in additional income streams, as long as you have a little bit of drive and creativity.
If you look around enough and really do your research, you […]
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by onecleardot
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The ins and outs of investing really elude me sometimes. I put down a good chunk of money into a mutual fund investment years ago and then the stock market went south faster than I would ever have imagined. Then, a couple of years back we moved yet again and considered buying several homes in […]
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by onecleardot
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I am sure I have mentioned before the dirty little trick my current car insurance company has played on me.
Here in Florida, there is something called PIP (Personal Injury Protection). There was a law saying all insurance policies had to include coverage for this. Then, there was a brief point in time last year where […]
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by onecleardot
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A local TV station in Tampa did an investigative report where they asked people who shop regularly at “dollar stores” like Dollar General and Family Dollar to see what they generally stopped at those stores to buy.
Then, the reporters bought those items, in identical sizes and brands, at both the dollar stores and at a […]
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by onecleardot
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The game is getting old. Rumors about a storm? Gas prices go up. Hugo Chavez in the news? Gas prices go up. One gas station within 10 blocks raises prices? So do the rest of the gas stations. Do gas prices quite literally need to be as high as they are this week? Look at […]
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by onecleardot
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My current auto insurance company has me pretty upset right now. I will try and tell the story as simply as possible. Florida used to have a PIP (personal injury) requirement and I had to pay an additional fee on my auto insurance. Then, the state removed that requirement and it came off my policy.
My […]
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by onecleardot
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