I was just reading a post on a forum that I frequent about a home made Salsa Recipe. It looked real tasty and I got to thinking just how much money we spend on commercial salso every year. Every time we get groceries we are buying a bottle of salsa that we enjoy with chips or various chicken recipes and nachos. How much money can we save by buying are own fresh ingredients and making our own? I would imagine the ... Read More

The other day a local hot tub company sent out a flyer to drum up some business from all of the people they have in their computer. I was one of them. The one thing they were offering was a  pair of hot tub steps at a decent prices and we really need them as we have almost killed ourselves getting out a few times. So we ordered them and I just put them together the other day The bottom ... Read More

I just flipped through about 400 tv commercials this morning and a large number of them were for things like techincal institutions or schools and thing like truck driving school and retraining programs. I got me to thinking that there are a lot of people out there that don't have the skills or education to get themselves out of debt or to get a head in life. At some point if you are always behind because you have a dead ... Read More

Is it me or are car insurance costs really on the rise. I am going to be adding a new driver over the next year or so and I can't believe how much it is going to cost. One great thing about the internet is that it is really easy to fin a car insurance online quote. You don't have to sit on the phone all day talking to customer service people or you don't have to drive all the ... Read More

Believe it or not I am pushing 40 and still get huge breakouts of acne. I also have a teenager in the house who gets break out every now and again. It's awful in terms of both searching for a good acne treatment and then finding one that isn't hard on the old pocket book at the same time. I was just thinking today how much time I have spent driving to the pharmacy and then searching around and buying ... Read More

It doesn’t matter if you are reading the paper or watching the news there is always a story about drug and alcohol addiction affecting a family or community. Many of us may know somebody that has battled with drug and alcohol addiction and have had to use the services of a drug treatment center. When we think about the drain on resources on the economy or on familys and friends we think of this kind of drug use and the ... Read More

I meant to share this story with you earlier in case you missed it. Shoppers are starting to notice a that cereal boxes and the amount of cereal inside are shrinking along with most food packages in the grocery store. As manufacturers cope with the rising cost of raw ingredients and fuel, downsizing their package sizes is one increasingly popular way to pass along a price increase without drawing too much attention. They are also rising the prices a bit at a time ... Read More

So I have a few friends that are hunters and already they are talking about their upcoming holidays and hunting trips. I wonder how many of them prepare by buying their gear and some of the supplies before the season starts. I have talked about buying pool supplies and outdoor supplies out of season and the same would hold true for all of you hunters out there. It doesn't matter if you are looking for something along the lines of ... Read More

I blogged awhile back about how the summer might be a good time to get online and buy your text books before the school rush starts. Yesterday I was rummaging through the basement looking for an old back pack when I cam across three boxes of old books that I had acquired in my university days. They are just sitting in my basement collectiong dust. I am not reading them and I won't be reading them any time soon. So ... Read More

When it comes to your money do you have a game plan? Have you thought about where you are and where you want to be in say six months, a year or at the time of retirement? As a younger man I never had a game plan to speak of. I just put my savings into a general account and that was it. There are so many options out there to take into consideration. It could be futures trading, rrsp's, ... Read More

Okay so it's not earth shattering but the cost of domain names is set to go up at the end of the month. Today I received a newsletter from Name Cheap informing me that they are raising their costs by .40 cents a year for their domain names. Not a whole lot on my side, I only own a few but could be a bigger deal for those that own hundreds upon hundreds. The bonus though is that they will ... Read More