I can’t help it that my family is one of the wealthiest families in Rumford. My husband and I work very hard for all we have, and I don’t feel guilty about all of the blessings I have in my life. Since we both come from humble backgrounds, we feel like we get flak in town because we’ve moved up in society. Some of our old friends have become so spiteful and jealous of us. They make fun of us because we’ve moved into a bigger house, and because we have nice things now. They also get on our case about sending our kids to private school. I thought we were still the same old people we were before the money, but they don’t seem to think so. I have started to worry that since everyone knows we have money that we will become a target for theft. My husband and I decided that we needed to search Security Systems Rumford to see what our options were. We might be being a little paranoid, but I think getting the alarm installed will make us feel better.

This year I am buying the wife a rain chain that she has been eyeballing ever since seeing the rain chains at her sister-in-law’s house over the summer. I have to admit that these chains rain are a nice concept. It is a well known fact that water is therapeutic, I’ve always enjoyed seeing, hearing, smelling as well as feeling water, so having a rain chain or two or three or however many you choose to have is a positive thing.

We have worked hard on our backyard to make it attractive and comfortable as possible and I think having a good looking quality rain chain would be a nice addition. It’s just trying to decide which one of the many I’ve seen online to go ahead and commit to and order. I had no idea that there would be so many to choose from. I don’t have a lot of time left with Valentine’s day only a few weeks away.

These memory foam dog beds are a great idea for our four legged canine friends. If and when we get another dog I will make sure that we have one of these around when we need it. I know that memory foam beds do wonders for people so it only makes sense that our pets would benefit from all that they have to offer for them.

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!

So far I have not timed my visits to the website right for grabbing an insanity deal, but I have purchased a few of the items that the website sells at outrageously low prices. In some ways, this new website has put a little bit of fun into shopping that I haven’t had outside of going to an auction house. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how long this website has been online, but I have a feeling that it will be a success for many years to come.

In addition to selling various products such as handbags and jewelry, the website also sells travel packages and electronics. I was looking through the section that they call “Insanity Deals” and saw that they had sold some really expensive electronic products for some really crazy low prices. There is no way possible that anyone made any kind of profit from those “insanity deals.” Not being an expert on marketing, I would imagine that those products are what are sometimes referred to as “loss leaders” by the big chain stores – products priced so low that the sale actually loses money, but the hope is that while customers are in the store that they will find something else that they really like and spend money buying the other items.

Not the old illegal “bait and switch” routine, more like the “while you’re here looking around, maybe you’d be interested in buying some of this other stuff” type of marketing.

Well, when my mother took ill and we needed to take care of her for a couple of weeks last fall, the old baby monitors that we used when our kids were babies were quickly located (from their spot in the basement) and put to good use for us to be able to keep an ear out for Mom’s calls when she needed something. I have to admit, my wife did good this time.

It seems to me, though, that she could really go wild on one of the Keystone Mailboxes. Painting one of those would be really eye catching! Whatever she decides, I’m sure it will be gorgeous. Sue has such a great eye and talent that everything she touches looks great! When we first moved into this house, Sue gave us a gorgeous hand-painted bread box for our new kitchen, which we have receive so many compliments on throughout the years. Too bad I didn’t take after my mother, a very talented artist indeed.

Using one service provider for our internet service and cable has made my life a lot easier. I recently switched to a bundle deal with a new company because I was having trouble with my last cable company. I could never get a hold of anyone or work my way through the phone tree. I would often find mistakes in my bill and it would take me thirty minutes to get everything straightened out on the phone. Sometimes things didn’t get straightened out and I would end up having to call again! I was spending at least an hour a month talking to the cable company on the phone. Now since I have bundled with a new company, I can pay my bill on-line for both services. The service is not spotty and I actually ended up saving a pretty good bit of money. The best part about my new service is that I don’t have to get on the phone every single month to correct my cable bill. My internet speed is actually must faster than it was before too, so I can stream internet movies and watch videos on YouTube. I wish that I had thought of this sooner!

Jack is an enrolled agent cpe and has been for almost 5 years, he comes from a well established family from Massachusetts, which makes him a Yankee, but we are trying not to hold that against him LOL! He is now concentrating on his required enrolled agent continuing education, which can be done right online these days, so that he can continue working in that position and save enough money for the big wedding that my sis has always dreamed of and I’m sure that will cost us all a good chunk of change in the long run.

They make a cute couple, it was a nice relaxed Christmas this year. Now on with the New Year’s festivities.

I got this new Canon digital camera for Christmas and it didn’t come with the usual Canon battery chargers and I really didn’t think it was a big deal up until now. I really hate last minute issues, but I guess it could be worse. I could have found out that the darn thing was broken and have to run out and spend money on a new one instead of buying Christmas presents for the people that I care so much for at this point in my life.

We have been calling the local pound every day. Been combing the neighborhood several times a day, knocking on doors asking everyone we see on the streets, not a word from anyone. We even did some Lost Dog flyer printing efforts, had over 50 Color Copies of this flyers printed using SuperFinePrinting and we spent a whole afternoon tacking them up all over and showing to whom ever we came into contact with. Still no word.

With each passing day, the odds are greater that Bilbo won’t be returning home, but there is always a chance. We have been hearing some very heart warming stories as of late about some pets traveling major distances, some taking years to get back home. We will keep hoping for our miracle story to develop and keep trudging along.

One can only hope that they have replaced those old wooden gym lockers with steel lockers. I have never gone back to my Junior or my High School Locker Rooms, maybe one day I’ll venture in there and take a look and see, just out of curiosity sake. Actually one of my nephews will be attending my old High School in a couple of years, maybe I’ll just hold out and ask him when he gets there. We aren’t all that close but I try and talk with him when I have the chance. I don’t have a lot in common with a teen aged boy these days.

One of the business people there is self employed as a business promoter. Basically he just stands up and says that he can help businesses with their SEO for their websites. I think that he would be more effective if he explained to people why that is important because there are a lot of people there that don’t even have a website for their businesses! The Internet is making the world a smaller place, and if people want to grow their businesses, I think that they should at least consider having their own Home page to help people find their business!

So anyway this guy talks about using a pay-per-click service to help drive traffic to his customer’s websites. I think that pay-per-click can help, but I think that is just one of the many ways that people can increase their rankings and visibility. I’d like to encourage folks that want to monetize their website or promote their website that they need to carefully look at the Advertiser page and the Publisher page of any website that is claiming to help people with their SEO and get a better feel for how that company actually performs their SEO marketing functions. And reading them carefully might give you a better idea of exactly how professional that company really is. If their website contains a lot of spelling and grammatical mistakes, you might ask yourself if this is really the company you want to represent your company on the Internet.