- Remember, you can stay relatively healthy be drinking pure water, eating right, and exercising.
- A great sites for pricing/cost info is OutOfPocket.
- Comprehensive List of Free Health Care Clinics (by state)
- If it looks like you must use prescription drugs, try buying from Canada.
- One last point about food - it has healing properties. That's why you really need to use this database!
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Often we use too much of some cleanser - thinking that's how much we need. Examples include dish soap, shampoo, shaving cream (you get the picture).
Try using half as much, if that works, try halving it again. Ultimately you'll find just the right amount to do the job but not be wasteful!
Folks in developed countries often take for granted so many things - like having 20-30 pairs of shoes.
So if your still in that fashion forward mode why not get a pair of TOMS so someone in need gets shoes too? Or if you're like Imelda Marcos, you can just share your old shoes
DXDDX - a mutual fund that moves up 2.5 times when the dollar index falls.
Here are some reasons the dollar should continue to fall.
- For the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, the Congressional Budget Office forecasts a record deficit of $1.75 trillion, almost four times the previous year’s $454.8 billion shortfall and about 13 percent of gross domestic product. Bear in mind that the target demanded of European nations wanting to join the euro was a deficit no greater than 3 percent of GDP.
- David Walker, a former U.S. comptroller general, wrote in the Financial Times on May 12 that the U.S.’s top credit rating looks incompatible with “an accumulated negative net worth” of more than $11 trillion and “additional off-balance-sheet obligations” of $45 trillion.
- The biggest problem is that external investors — particularly China — have more skin in the dollar game than in euros, yen or pounds, which makes the U.S. currency the most likely candidate to meet the cleaver in a crisis of confidence about post-crunch government finances.
- If commodity prices rise and the US dollar falls, energy and food prices will remain relatively constant for everyone outside the United States (since all commodities are priced in US dollars)
- Repair leaks in your sinks and toilets
- Install a rain barrel to catch water for your garden
- Plant native plants that require little watering
- Water you lawn only during early morning or evening hours
- Turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth or shave
Nearly three-quarters of all household water is flushed down the toilet or washed down the shower drain!
- Placing a brick in the toilet tank can save up to 13,000 gallons per year
- Installing a low-flow shower head saves nearly $100 per year since your hot water heater gets a break
- Use a bucket to capture water from your bath tub as you wait for the water to heat up
Two-thirds of the oil Americans consume is used for transportation
- Don't speed - drive 5 miles under the limit
- Avoid sudden acceleration when the light turns green
- Tune up your engine
- Make sure your tires are inflated properly
Home Energy use accounts for 21% of America's global warming pollution
- Buy energy star appliances
- Turn electronics off when not in use
- Swap the incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescent bulbs
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I'm very careful on this blog to not lead my readers astray. I try to be precise, but succinct. So look at my recent stock pick history.
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GAZ went from 16.11 to 20.36
GDP went from 19.75 to 19.43
TBT went from 46.30 to 50.80
(closing prices on 5-11)
I even made my GDP and TBT stock picks prior to the March 9th lows! I pay no payroll tax on this unearned income.
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