If you’re over the age of 16, chances are you’ve done business with your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (aka the DMV).
If so, there’s something you should know…
Need just a small amount of a specialty item for a recipe? Visit the grocery store’s salad bar!
Do you often find yourself in need of just a small amount of bacon bits, olives or some other salad ingredient for a recipe you’re planning to prepare?
As you probably know, buying an entire container of an ingredient you rarely use can be a huge waste of money.
But there’s a very simple way to buy exactly the small amount of those specialty ingredients you need, when you actually need them.
How to easily lower your electric bill by 50% or more!
If you’re like me you probably get frustrated every time you pay your electric bill.
After all, that monthly check you send off to the power company is one of your largest household expenses.
And like mine, your electric bill probably seems to go up on a regular basis.
These days most folks are doing everything they can to lower their electric usage.
You can turn off the light when you leave a room and turn the thermostat up or down a degree or two, but things like that can only do so much for reducing your electricity usage.
But there’s one simple thing you can do to dramatically lower your electric bill, starting right this moment: Shift your appliance usage to off-peak hours!
5 very unusual ways to save money
These days it seems like everyone’s looking for ways to save money.
Of course there are the usual methods such as eating at home instead of going to a restaurant or watching Netflix instead of going out to watch a movie, but apparently some folks really think outside the box.
Even though you might wonder about a couple of them, there are actually people that use each and every one of the methods listed below to save a little cash on their everyday expenses.
Q&A: Is it really worth our time and trouble to recycle?
Question from Jessie M.: My husband and I have been recycling for years by sorting our recyclable items into separate bins and taking them to the recycling center at the county landfill.
My husband took a load off this morning but they told him they’re no longer accepting recyclable items because research has shown that the benefits of recycling aren’t worth the effort.
They ended up throwing our recyclable items into the dumpster along with the regular garbage!
We can still take our recyclable materials to a local private recycling center, but they don’t accept plastics (which is what we usually have the most of).
What’s the real story on this? Is it worthwhile to recycle or not?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]