SENIORS LOVE HOUSEWORK

SENIORS LOVE HOUSEWORK
 
In today’s economic climate, caring for your aging parents is tougher than ever.  Assisted living facilities (what used to be called “the home”) are expensive and really, how much bingo can one person play, especially when they’re hard of hearing and forgot what a “B” looks like?  That’s why, should your parents or “significant [...]

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Hey, Mr. Car Salesman, Bail Out This!

The current recession seems like a good time to buy a car.  Everywhere you look, commercials are screaming 0 % financing,  $0 down payments and rebates the size of an AIG Executive’s Golden Parachute.  Yet the truth, as is often the case, is not that simple.  Like hedgehogs and O.J. Simpson, car salespeople are locked [...]

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Money to Burn?

At six to eight dollars a pack for Joe Camels or Marlboro Reds, if you are still smoking cigarettes, the time has definitely come to stop. Think about it – emphysema, lung cancer or heart disease is one thing (actually it’s three things, but that’s how the expression goes), but thirty to forty dollars a week [...]

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Family Fun for the Whole Family.

Yes, the price of gas has recently gone down,but now no one has any money so at best, it’s a wash.  That’s why, to truly stem the bleeding at the pump, we’ve developed a new technique that’s simple, effective, and guaranteed to work.  When taking a car trip, never leave your driveway. Everything else remains the [...]

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Pawn Shops- The New Trading Post

USA Today reported in a recent edition that inventory in Pawn Shops is up 44%. That is good news for the buying public. Once the repository of musical insturments pawned by desperate and strung out musicans or their former desperate  and strung out  girlfriends. Pawn Shops now boast a sterling and bountiful selection of items [...]

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Forget Brain Cancer, What About the Bills?

You cannot walk down the street, drive in your car or wait on line at the unemployment office today without seeing dozens of people glued to their cell phones. When did this happen?  How did we become a people that must maintain uninterrupted contact with every person we’ve ever met during all of our waking [...]

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Pass the Soap, Neighbor!

We all know the sniggering adage, “Save water.  Shower with a friend.”  And while we would never stoop to merely mimicking such a hokey slogan as a way to save money in the coming recession, we have stooped to revising it, in response to current economic conditions.  The new slogan: “Save water.  Shower at a friend’s house.”  Think about it.  Showering [...]

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Snap, Crackle, and Save

Want to know who started that propaganda about breakfast being the most important meal of the day?  The powerful Cereal Lobby in Washington.  Using classic fear tactics they have successfully panicked the unsuspecting public into believing that if we don’t have a bowl of cereal before we leave the house, we will fail at everything [...]

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“Shut the door! We’re not heating the whole outdoors.”

An easy way to save money on heating bills is to bring back the concept of the family bed.  It seems that many years ago, families would sleep together in the same bed, in order to stay warm at night.  This, of course, was before central heating, and may have even been before fire.  But [...]

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One Size Better Fit All…

Expanding on the concept of the family bed is another way to save money on heating bills.  Simply introduce a “family winter coat” or “family hat”, even a “family pair of thermal underwear” that each family member gets an opportunity to wear.   True, it may limit family outings but the benefits far outweigh the extravagance of [...]

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