But then, LIFE happened. And before I knew it I had two different personal injury lawyers, a worker’s compensation lawyer, a divorce lawyer, a family law lawyer, AND a business lawyer. Not to mention the time that I had to hire a lawyer to help my son get the charges reduced on a speeding ticket.

Many a time I’ve wished that I had a lawyer in the family that I could consult for little free legal consultations. They last time I spoke with a lawyer about a retainer for business law he told me that he charges $300 an hour! They sure make good money! And I sure wish I did not need any of them!

So I politely decline the offer to do the other work “while they are working on it anyway” and simply have the oil change done. Then I’ll come home and tell my hubby about their suggestions and he will either check it out and do the work himself, or he will snort and tell me that he had done the work a month or so ago and that there is no need for that to be done.

Regardless, at least the oil change was done and a few weeks after the oil change is performed I get reimbursed through PayPal. And that is a good thing.

No one told me for a fact that was the actual case, but I figured that since the electric company has sent out notices to us as homeowners different invitations to participate in differing energy savings programs that included things like that, I felt that was a reasonable guess to make. Of course my hubby was skeptical, but that’s normal for him. I told him if he was worried that he could go sit in the car and wait for me, or for the fire trucks, whichever happened first. As long as no fire alarms were going off, or announcements being made over the loudspeaker I was content to just keep shopping.

The Internet has become a very valuable tool to help people find the best mortgage rates as most of us know by now. The process of applying for a mortgage is a long and tricky one, I wish that I had had access to the Internet when I was shopping around, I would have known a lot more, knowledge is power and power = money and when it comes to a mortgage, no matter how low the interest rate, is a lot of money even if you have perfect credit scores to your advantage.

Four years have passed since the car accident happened that ruined my life. I was on my way home from work when I was rear ended by a car whose driver was too busy talking on the phone to realize that the cars in front of her had stopped for a red traffic signal.

She rear-ended the vehicle in front of me, pushing that vehicle into the rear of my truck. At the time of impace I was in the process of changing the CD in the CD player, since I had already stopped for the traffic light. I was badly injured as a result of the accident, and we had to hire a lawyer to help us to recover the costs of the accident. I wish that we had been able to find a claim calculator on the Internet back then to help us figure out what type of award we might be able to expect from the accident. As it is we still have not yet settled from the accident, and I am thinking that we never will see any money from it.

Facebook was a good resource when looking to see if this company that offers great Daily Deals is really on the up and up. Come to find out a few people that are my Facebook friends had used this website just recently for some of their Christmas shopping needs and all had good things to say about it. That was good to know, you just gotta love Facebook these days. I never knew how much I would rely and depend on all that Facebook has to offer these days. Kinda makes me wonder what they will come up with next.

Even though we lived way up in Maine, which isn’t all that far from Canada, I have to be honest and say that I never had the chance or opportunity to take such a trip up there. Now that we are living way south I don’t know if I’ll ever get up there or not. I have several friends and acquaintances that are scattered here and there that I’d love to be able and visit. Most likely I would never have to spend a dime on any hotel or motel rooms, nor pay for too much food along the way.

I love the fact that you can customize them now online with special photographs that you can upload yourself to make the gift card more memorable – when the recipient pulls out the gift card to use and sees the photograph of the giver on it, it reminds them of the person who gave them the gift – and I think that is wonderful!  Or the picture could be of the recipient himself so his brother/sister can’t steal it and claim it belongs to them when they are caught!

Well, now is really different!  With the Internet at our fingertips, today’s teenagers and young adults are extremely fortunate to have such great websites as the studentcreditcardscenter.com to go to. At that website they can read a lot of great articles about the different types of student credit card offers and brands that are available to the student. There is also a really great article about identity theft that I think everyone should read no matter how old (or young) you are!

My husband and I thought we had covered all our bases when we opened the doors to our pet store earlier this year. Boy, were we wrong! When the first client got up to the register I realized I had never research credit card or bank card processing companies! I have to tell everyone those first few weeks that we only accepted cash which was not only really embarrassing, it lost us quite a few sales. Now that we have all our ducks in a row I feel much more professional than I did at the beginning but for a while there I think we were both running on fumes. It’s definitely not easy owning your own business and it’s hard being responsible for every little problem that arises that at the end of the day I love being my own boss. I don’t ever think I’ll go back to corporate life, especially since I get to play with adorable dogs all day and get paid for it! Who could ask for a better job?