November 30, 2009
I talked to a representative from a discount office furniture store last week that came into introduce himself and let me know that not only do they offer furniture at great rates but they also sell office supplies. I was not sure what kind of prices we were getting for our copy paper and pens and pencils but I took the guys price list to compare and see if he was any cheaper.
I was hoping that he was priced lower than our current provider since I did not like the service that we got from our current office supply company, they were never on time and it they sometimes forgot things. I even found them charging us for things that we never ordered and never received.
After comparing the two company’s price lists, the discount office furniture store seemed to have much lower prices; I called and set up our first order with the representative. The order was to be in on Tuesday and it came on Monday with everything exactly the way it should.
I hope to continue to get great service from this office supply company and I have even checked out some their discount furniture and am thinking that after the holidays I will start to replace some of the older pieces in my office.
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November 24, 2009
I came home to find my teenage son on the computer entering a contest on one of those sites that sell funny t shirts. I guess that whoever could design the best of the best funny t shirts, would win some money and a free t shirt. I could not believe when he called me at work the following week to let me know that he had won a hundred dollars and they were printing his design on a t shirt.
I was so proud of my son for winning the funny shirts contest that I told everyone in my office by the end of the day. They told me that he might have a career in designing funny t shirts. I laughed at them, and then got to thinking. I wondered how much it would cost to get a website for him, and what kind of computer equipment it would take to get him started on the road to a successful funny shirts business.
I called a few of my friends that know how to design websites and asked them all the questions that I thought I needed to have answered. I compiled all the figures of the startup fees. I was so excited to go home and tell him, and when I did, he said ‘no thanks mom, it was fun the first time and I just really wanted to win and that is all.”
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November 23, 2009
I found a company online that will give you life insurance quotes through your email. I always thought that you had to go through a big interview and hour long medical exam but I guess that it is possible to get no medical exam life insurance for a really good rate these days.
I have never had any life insurance and thought that since it said that there were no obligations with the life insurance quotes, I should just check it out. I did have to answer a few questions about my health and some of my habits, like smoking but besides that they were pretty simple.
I am hoping to have all of the no medical exam life insurance quotes back by the end of the week so that I can look them over during the weekend. My brother has just gotten some no medical exam life insurance and is going to compare the life insurance quotes I get with his new policy. It may be a little different because of our age difference, but at least we will be able to see how much coverage is being offered in each policy. If the companies that send me the quotes online are not any better than my brothers company then I may just go with his insurance provider.
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November 2, 2009
I bought some funny shirts from a yard sale last week. Some of the funny t shirts even still have the tags on them. I found them in a big pile of clothes and they were all the way at the bottom of the pile. The lady that was having the sale told me that her daughter went through a phase where she only wanted to wear funny shirts so all of her family would buy her funny shirts whenever they saw one.
The ladies daughter grew out of the phase and she was left with many t shirts that her daughter did not like or that she just did not fit. I was happy for the find since my daughter has just decided last week that she likes funny shirts. The lady and I laughed that the girls were both about ten when this phase seemed to kick in.
When I got home with the bag full of funny t shirts, my daughter was so excited. She loved every single one of them and she even fit them all too. There was only one that seemed a little big on her and we just figured that she could wear it in the future if she was still into funny shirts that is.
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