Posted by Lorren on February 24, 2008
In this day, where everybody is blogging about their experiences, one embarrassing move could go viral on YouTube, places like Planet Feedback are there to take your complaints, and Mystery Shoppers abound, it’s amazing how often people still get terrible service. I suppose that it would be understandable in an economic downturn where businesses [...]
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Arizona has a law where they are supposed to keep their budget balanced. Right now, there is a $1.3 billion budget deficit, which has prompted governor Janet Napolitano to initiate a state hiring freeze.
This is not really a great surprise to me. My husband was hired by the state early last year, and [...]
Posted by Lorren on February 20, 2008
Not that I’m planning on doing that or anything… but I can understand their frustration.
Some days you can wake up with no money in your pocket and be thankful that there’s nobody in the hospital, you have food in the pantry, freezer, and refrigerator, and that you’re alive. Other days you wake up with [...]
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If you are a student in college or have a family member in college right now… you may end up being affected by the nation’s current credit crunch. If you live in Michigan, you may be affected next semester.
As reported on Mlive.com, Michigan’s MI-LOAN program, which was often used to close the gap between [...]
Posted by Lorren on February 19, 2008
My daughter is 5, and I’m starting to teach her double-column addition. She also is progressing pretty well with her reading. Today she read a story that included the passage “One day Gray Fox and Trapper Joe rode into the camp. The men were not surprised to see Father in bed.”
My daughter [...]
Posted by Lorren on February 18, 2008
Last month I wrote about how some banks were trying to sell their foreclosed homes at auction, but they weren’t getting the prices that they wanted for them, so they’d just let them sit. In a declining housing market, I thought that was a bonehead move (they’re not going to get any more valuable, [...]
Posted by Lorren on February 15, 2008
Ebay recently announced that it was planning on changing its rules, and a lot of people, myself included, are not too happy about it. Many people are planning a boycott of Ebay from February 11-25th.
Ebay is announcing that their fees have been reduced, but that is only a half-truth. While they are reducing [...]
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Posted by Lorren on February 14, 2008
I posted earlier this month about my daughter’s 7 year old friend Shadiyah who was in the hospital with e-coli. She ended up on kidney dialysis things were going so poorly. When I got the initial call at 6:40 in the morning that she went to the hospital, it sounded like she wasn’t [...]
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About this time of year, my dd starts getting towards the back of her textbooks, and I start to wonder when we’ll be done for the year. I put together a lesson plan for the remainder of the school year this week, and it looks like we’ll be done with everything (except reading) somewhere [...]
Posted by Lorren on February 13, 2008
The other day, I started reading America The Broke. Even though it’s four years old, it’s just as relevant as ever… perhaps even more so. Me and my husband are seriously considering taking $1000 of our tax returns this year and investing in gold. It’s not a new idea from this book… [...]
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