Posted on January 22nd, 2012 by Jerry under Business, Computers and/or Internet, Entertainment and Fun, Food, Life, Shopping, Technology and gadgets.
Tags: Business, Computers, food, fun, gadgets, internet, life, Shopping
Can you remember life before the Internet? (BI) What an extraordinary change to our lives the Internet has become! I can remember that far back (yeah, I’m showing my age!) and I can remember that our family depended heavily on the local yellowpages to find all of the businesses that we needed; from local plumbers and banks to local restaurants and barber shops!
With the advent of the Internet, and the rapid acceptance and dependence of the Internet, I find it so much easier to use the Internet to do a local search for any business than going back to the old paper version! And yes, we DO have the old paper version in the cupboard by the telephone, but I gravitate towards using the Internet first. I really like how once I find the listing that i need I can often get directions to the place if I need them! The paper version doesn’t do that at all!
Posted on December 26th, 2011 by Jerry under Entertainment and Fun, Food, Friends/Family, Life, Money and Finances, Opinion.
This Christmas was a little bit on the quiet side this year. Most of the people in our family are finding it more difficult to make their paychecks stretch as far as they need to stretch, so we greatly reduced the gift giving this year. We decorated the house, and had a nice dinner, and played a few games. Thankfully everyone was in a good mood and the house was full of laughter and good camaraderie. All in all, it was a good visit, even if there hardly any material gifts involved.
Posted on December 1st, 2011 by Jerry under Food, Health, Life.
Last night I was in the mood to snack. I don’t know why, I just seemed like I couldn’t get full! And it didn’t make any sense to me at all because I had eaten plenty of protein, which sticks to my ribs better than anything else. I don’t know, maybe I was just bored, or stressed. All I know is that my stomach was growling at me and I felt hunger pains that just would not stop! I was going nuts trying to find something to eat that would not be terrible for me. Cookies and chips were calling out to me; it was so hard to resist! And I know that experts say to eat fruit, but that makes me even hungrier!
So I scrounged around the pantry and found some microwave popcorn that had been sitting there a long time. It had a “best if used by” date on it that was over a year old. I considered throwing it away, but then I decided I’d pop it and see if it smelled or tasted bad; if so, then I’d toss it away. Well, I think it had a few more “old maids” than normal, but not bad, and it tasted just fine. And today I’m alive and well, so I guess maybe today I’ll eat that second bag of expired popcorn!
Posted on November 15th, 2011 by Jerry under Food, Friends/Family, Life, Money and Finances, Shopping.
Recently a new Harris Teeter store opened up in town. Everyone’s been raving about how they offer double coupons – even sometimes triple coupons! And if you sign up for their VIC card you will get coupons in the mail for $10 off a $40 purchase. So I went ahead and started shopping there. I have to say that although in general the store is impressive, I was disappointed in their limited supply of some of the products that my family buys a lot of – for example their selection of jams and jellies was very small. And the mini-baby bel cheeses that my wife loves to eat cost twice as much as Harris Teeter than at Wal-Mart! I guess we will have to be very consumer savvy and make sure we know exactly what is a good price and what isn’t a good price!
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Jerry under Business, Computers and/or Internet, Food, Green Issues, Home and garden, Money and Finances, Opinion, Weather Issues.
It really does my heart good to see that more people are turning to and relying on good old fashioned rain harvestings during these past few years of drought like conditions that we’ve been dealing with. Many people pay dearly for water services and some folks get theirs from their well, either way it takes money to get our much needed water supply to us that we depend on each and every day, while mother nature provides us water that just takes something like a rain barrel to collect to use.
My father used to always have a rain water barrel that he used for our small garden that we all worked so hard in year after year for our home grown fruits and vegetables that my mother loved cooking with. That made a big impression on us for years to come about rain harvesting.
I’m hearing that there are now more rain water barrels are being sold than ever before. Did you know you can find many rain barrels for sale right online at sites like simplyrainbarrels.com has to offer? They have a very large variety of sizes, colors and shapes as well as various price ranges. What I really like is that simplyrainbarrels.com accepts PayPal, I’ve put an end to my credit cards and rely on my PayPal account more and more for online purchases such as this.