Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by Jerry under Business, Computers and/or Internet, Friends/Family, Life, Money and Finances, Shopping.
My twenty six year old niece is finally getting her own car. She had been just borrowing her parent’s car when she needed a ride, but they have decided that they are tired of her returning their cars with an empty tank and told her that it is time that she had her own wheels. One of the biggest reasons that she didn’t have her own car to begin with was that they had heard that it was impossible to get cheap car insurance for women. Especially for women under the age of twenty-five. They’ve heard that insurance companies have higher rates for those under that age. Well, now she’s twenty-six, so that roadblock has been removed.
When I asked them where they found a good price on car insurance for women they told me that they found a website that served as a search engine focusing just on women’s car insurance. They plugged in their zip code and the website showed them a lot of different insurance companies that served their area that have good rates. They found that very helpful.
Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by Jerry under Computers and/or Internet, Friends/Family, Life, Shopping.
Last year about this time I noticed several packages arriving for my wife from Zappos. I had never heard of it before then, so I asked her who or what is Zappos?
She told me that it was an Internet store she had found out about from a friend when she was complaining about how hard it was to find shoes that fit her feet. Her friend told her to try Zappos for both shoes and clothes because not only do they have a great selection of styles and sizes, but they offer free shipping both ways.
Well, my wife was all over that in a flash! She has bad memories of ordering a dress from a catalog that according to their size chart was supposed to fit her, and it was too large so she returned it for a smaller size, which was still too large, returned it again and it was STILL too large and returned it again and they said that they didn’t have anything smaller so she asked for a refund. She ended up paying about $100 on shipping (both ways) and never ended up with a dress to show for it!
Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by Jerry under Friends/Family, Home and garden, Life.
As much as I didn’t feel like mowing the lawn yesterday (it was very hot) I ended up spending much of my day doing exactly that. Most every day this past week it has rained, and the weather forecast for the next week is for it to rain as well. So I decided to bite the bullet and “make hay while the sun shines” yesterday and mow the lawn.
There was a car show that I really wanted to go to instead, but the lawn was looking really scruffy and I couldn’t stand it! My thinks I’m a little bit over-sensitive as to how the lawn looks; she thinks that I could let it grow longer than I do. But she does always tell me how nice the lawn looks after I’ve finished mowing and trimming!