When shipping on Ebay, you get a small discount on shipping costs. But, if you need to ship something on your own, you normally have to pay the retail shipping fee. I needed to ship a 6 Lb package to Texas and decided to get a quote from the US
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Paying the Bills
When it comes to paying household bills, these days I pay everything online. The nice thing about online payments is being able to schedule when a payment is made. When I received my semi-annual car insurance bill recently, I saw there was an option on the insurance company’s website to
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I was thinking about the toilet paper shortage the other day and thought that a lot of people may not know how much TP they really need. Because of this, they end up buying too much, which adds to the shortage. So, I created a Toilet Paper Calculator. It estimates
Continue readingBudget Cuts and Ebay
Just when I think I have cut my spending to the bare minimum, something is always forcing me to look for ways to cut deeper. This week, I dropped collision insurance from my car. I am driving less and there are less cars on the road. I am not as
Continue readingInternet Speed Update
So far the 100 Mbps speed upgrade from Comcast has been working great. Video channels on Roku play much better and I can stream on more than one device without any buffering. I received my first bill after making the service change. Since they bill a month in advance, Comcast
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I upgraded the speed of my cable Internet this past week. It was easier than I expected. My old speed was 3 Mbps and the new speed is 100 Mbps. I was able to keep the cost about the same by dropping basic cable. I didn’t think that was possible,
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