Donna Lundy » Money

Up and Down

Donna — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:13:20 +0000

Gas prices just drive me crazy. It’s hard to believe that on Christmas Day the price of gas finally hit under the $3 mark, $2.99 to be exact, while today it has risen to $3.49 a gallon. That is a 50 cent increase in just over a month. I hear that we could be seeing prices above the $4 a gallon mark come summer, sigh…..

What really bites is that the gas station that had gas for $2.99 was closed on Christmas day so I didn’t even get to buy any.

Go figure.

Country Scene

Donna — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:57:15 +0000

This photo was taken in Springfield at the home of a man and his wife that asked me to help them sell their property and their business. The man is called Popeye by everyone in town, where they have lived all their lives. They are moving to a new home being custom built for them on the same property but farther down the state road from their home and business. It is a beautiful farm and country property. I wish I could find the rest of the photos I took while there to share with you. I’ll keep looking.

Becoming a better writer in 2012

Donna — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:13:53 +0000

Guest post written by Diane Kimball

I’ve toyed around with writing short stories over the years, but I’ve never had the guts to actually try and get them published. Well, I decided that this year I should try and finally get some of my writing published. I’m not expecting to actually get paid for any of my writing, but I thought that it would be nice to at least get something in print so that other people can read it. Besides, I’m tired of just writing for myself, I would love for other people to actually enjoy my writing too!

I’ve been looking online for some tips about how to get published when I ran across the website debtcounseling.bankrupt.com. After I looked through it a little bit I decided to use the site to help our family evaluate options for our debt because you know that isn’t a problem that will just go away on its own, unfortunately.

I have gathered a few ideas about how to get my writing published, including some names for some literary magazines. I think that I’ll have to send in my work to some of those and see if I get any good response.

Fur Jackets and Fur Vests

Donna — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:43:35 +0000

Been taking some time checking out various fur jackets for sale online. I received numerous gift cards for Christmas that I am taking my time deciding and researching before jumping in and actually using them on a shopping excursion. I’d love to use the gift cards for fun things, but in actuality there are more important things that I could be using them on and a nice fur jacket would be splendid.

Today’s fur vests are cool also, something that I’ve been interested in checking out for some time so I’ve been looking at fur vests for sale as well on the good old World Wide Web tonight. We have had a very mild winter so far, but I just know that we will be paying for that later on down the road and I’d like to have nice warm outer clothing on to help keep me toasty warm. Cold weather and I just don’t see eye to eye these past couple of years so I’m grateful for the mild winter so far. But nothing good lasts forever, am I right?

Man I can’t wait for spring.

Cyber Week and Other Interesting Finds

Donna — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:57:22 +0000

I had no idea that there was a Cyber Week, good thing I check my Facebook at least once a day or I would miss out on all kinds of goodies like this. I also just found out that my uncle is in the hospital and my nephew has been diagnosed with COPD and sleep apnea and my sister is taking belly dance lessons. You just gotta love Facebook and all of the information that you can get quickly and pass on as well.

New Business Phone Systems

Donna — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:39:12 +0000

I got word today that I have been place in charge of finding the right business phone systems at the office, come the New Year. That is when a lot of changes will be happening around there. This is really good new all the way around, we will be getting a much needed business phone system and I’ll have the opportunity to learn a lot about what is out there these days for business phone systems and when I get us hooked up with a new one I’ll know everything that one would need to know to operate it. I’ll look like the hero in the office! LOL

Girl Clothing Stores Online

Donna — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:46:51 +0000

The heat is on with Christmas less than 2 months away from now, the clock is ticking and there is still so much to do in order to get everything done. Why does Christmas come so quickly when you become an adult? This year I have had to cut way back, like most folks have had to do since the economy isn’t getting any better and with no end in sight. Inside of buying a bunch of junky gifts for the kids I have had to turn to buying most things that they need rather than what they want.

I have no intentions of going out to the local retail girl clothing stores at the mall, that is just not an option. I don’t deal well with crowds and from what I understand they have started to play Christmas music at most of the stores and the mall, gag me with a spoon. So I have to get busy and start really pounding the keyboard to find some good quality, but affordable girls clothing for my daughter that she will like and wear. This good be a challenge, she is getting to the age that she really would prefer to pick out her own clothes, but she has such expensive taste that it becomes a struggle and a power play that I’m just not up to dealing with these days.

Walmart Coupons

Donna — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:50:06 +0000

It’s all about saving as much money as you can for all purchases made any day of the year and especially around the holiday season, which by the way if you hadn’t noticed, is fast approaching us. As of this writing there is only 51 days, 6 hours and 50 minutes until Christmas day 2011 and there is still so much to get done. I try and do as much shopping online as I can but some times we all have to venture out into the real world and spend our money in our local retail stores and my favorite store is Walmart. So I was happy to find that there are walmart coupons to be found online at Dropdowndeals.com and I wanted to take just a moment and spread the word, lots of other coupons can be found there as well.

Energy Saving Solutions

Donna — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:29:32 +0000

Energy efficient windows are a great way to help reduce our heating and cooling bills of course, but we all know that they can cost a pretty penny to purchase and have these particular energy saving solutions installed so in this case it takes money to save money, the old Catch 22 concept, sigh. I am really interested in having a home energy audit done here, last year the heating bill about broke us and I’m sure that this year it will be even worse unless we get some of these drafty house solutions going real quick like. It is getting colder and colder at night, last night we actually hit freezing, not happy with that at all.

I love my old house but it most definitely has real issues that have become a real pain in the pocket book. We roast in the summer and freeze during the winter, even though we have a fireplace that we use most of the cold winter months to help as much as a fire place is able to. But even the cost of fire wood has gone up ridiculously high these past few years. I’d really like to find one of the contraptions that you put in front of the fireplace that pushes the hot air from the fire into the house, I’ll have to seriously start looking into that option as well.

Marketing Items

Donna — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:55:00 +0000

Well they say that you learn something every day and today I learned that all you need is a logo or a picture or even a slogan and you can order any kind of personalized coins that you want. Now how cool is that? I imagine that all kinds of businesses could use something just like this for marketing reasons, they would be great to use at a Trade Show as well. I love Trade Shows, I always walk away with my goodie bag filled with all kinds of freebies that businesses hand out there. There are so many promotional items out there these days that you never know what they are going to come up with next.