It's no secret that Christmas is going to be tough on a lot of people this year. The news if filled with stories of lay offs and downsizing. It's sickening really. Well I looked through the net and my brain for some ideas on how to save some money this holiday season. There are alots of ways  to do it and if you can then why not. 1. Just buy for the kids. Every year my wifes family were ... Read More

Just how ugly is that window? I don't know if you can see it or not but there is an aluminum storm window on the other side of that ugly wooden frame. I have read that up to 35% of your heat loss can be through your old draughty windows. This old window was draughty for sure. My wife used to have a cold nose when she was sitting on the couch watching tv. Can you imagine how much ... Read More

I may have blogged earlier that I bought the student in my house a laptop computer. I spaced on the purchase and left it too late to get any "back to school" savings. Now I need to replace my desktop and a notebook is the way I am going to go. The Christmas commercials have already started and the "holiday specials" are starting to show up on all the websites. I have seen ads for Toshiba notebooks and internet specils ... Read More

I forgot about the November Name Cheap Codes, sorry for the space. FIRSTSNOW seems to be it for the rest of this month. Use that code for the Discount Price: $8.81 domain name registration at Namecheap. ... Read More

I heard an interesting story yesterday on The Howard Stern Show. Robin was talking about how a new rash of store closings were going to make those gift cards you are holding onto worthless. If you have been holding onto some gift cards you might want to check into store closings to see if you have any. Once that store is gone you have yourself a piece of plastic worth nothing. If the chain itself isn't closing then you ... Read More

So I broke my own rules this week and wasted about $20. I did it on buying cheap weather stripping for my doors. The weather stripping around my two steel doors was rubber type with a flat edge that fit in a crack in the frame and covered the space nicely. It had become worn is all and was letting a good breeze through. I didn't check the kind I had and went out and bought the cheapest ones ... Read More

So I play video games. A friend and I get together once a week over the winter and play some sports games on the xbox to pass the time and drink some beers. He has to step up to an xbox 360 as some of the sports games are no longer coming out for the old console. We were looking at his options on a couple of websites last night and with Christmas coming there are bound to be some ... Read More

Well it took long enough but when I filled up this week gas was finally below .90 cents a litre. I hadn't seen prices like that for a long time. I hope it keeps up the monthly gas bill was becoming a bit of a killer. But if the high gass prices taught us anything over the past year was that we have to change our habits and we can change out habits and save money. So lets not give ... Read More

A few friends of mine are off on a four day golf trip down south, all inclusive and three rounds of golf for under a thousand. How did they find a steal of a trip like that? They went online and sniffed around some last minute vacation websites and since it didn't matter when they leave they were on their way to great savings. It doesn't matter if you are heading out to a down south resort all inclusive vacation ... Read More

I was leafing through the endless pages of my insurance policy the other day and was wondering when mine is up for renewal. It's a few months away. I am absent minded sometimes and forgot that I had renewed this year. I went to the companies website and you can sign up for a feature where they mail you a reminder prior to the insurance coming due. The best part of this is that you can look over your existing ... Read More

So my wife used to get sucked into those shopping parties at work or from friends of hers that were organizing them. She would come into work and there would be a little bag on her desk full of goodies and a nice little bill sitting beside it. Or should be bring home a bag of perfume or clothing orders and a receipt. And it was never one, the same person had perfurme parties, candle parties, food parties, sweets parties... ... Read More