Tony Brewer

My aunt has asked me to help her price shop for Connecticut insurance on her vacation home.  She’s easily confused by the Internet, so I offered to help her with some research on that topic to try to help her save some money.  I like websites like netquote.com that will help the consumer to do some comparison shopping between companies.  Being able to compare policies online is a great convenience.  I like doing things online – things get done at MY convenience and I don’t have to leave my own home to get things done!  Just fill out a few blanks, press submit and you are off and running!

To me it is sad to hear that a man was so terribly desperate with his tax problems that he felt that he had to burn his house down and then crash into the local IRS building. Taxes have always been a big issue in people’s lives, something that I guess we will always need to deal with. These are scary times, what with the economy in such a mess and now that it is tax time I’m afraid we will be hearing more stories like this one.

I am hoping to get a chance this week to get all the paperwork gathered up that I have been collecting all year in order to get my tax return filed. It is a real pain in the rear, but well worth the hassle in order to receive as much cash back that I can each year from good old Uncle Sam and our friends at the IRS.

I’ve really been wanting to buy a new laptop. I was kind of hoping that I would have received one for Christmas, but that didn’t happen, oh well you can’t get everything that is on your Christmas wish list. A nice dell studio 15 would be nice and I’m keeping my eyes peeled for online deals to take advantage of when I get my check in the mail in the next few weeks. Of course a nice new samsung lcd tv would be sweet as well. Guess we will have to see what H & R Block have to say about the whole sordid affair.

I do the majority of my purchasing online these days. I’ve never been a fan of shopping, going to one of the local malls or to Wal Mart just isn’t my idea of a fun time. So ordering online works out well with me. There are deals to be found for online shoppers and don’t mind taking the time to look for them since I’m on my computer so much of the time any ways. I’ve just ran across a sweet deal for a timex ironman watch on Become.com that is 20% off. That is a nice savings and I’ve been meaning to pick up a new watch………………….

I have always wanted to purchase myself a brand new frost-free freezer. With so many food products that now need to be kept in freezers it is becoming a real challenge finding room to place everything that I am buying at the grocery store each week. I have asked my mother if she would go to Sam’s Club with me sometime in the near future to look and see what types of deals that may have on their chest freezers.

I’m hoping that my tax refund check will be coming shortly and I’d like to use some of that money to buy a few things that I have been needing around the place. I don’t have a membership at the local Sam’s Club, but my mother certainly does and she takes me there on occasion and I have a field day there with her. I like shopping with my mother, we have always had fun times when we hit the stores and I look forward to many more years of shopping with her in the future.

Not too long ago I was talking to a businessman who seemed to have a unique approach to the current economy and how every-one’s bad credit is going to change the business world.   The conversation started out with a discussion on different credit repair services and how so many people are interested in learning how to fix credit ratings.  Everyone is afraid that if they don’t have good credit that they will be unable to buy a car or rent an apartment down the line.

His take on the situation is that no one should have to pay for credit repair services.  He feels that it won’t be too long before everyone is in the same boat and that the businesses are just going to have to bite the bullet and take a chance.  If they don’t take a chance they are going to end up with a lot of unsold product and empty apartments!  And that won’t be good for business at all!  He may have a point there, but just the same I’m going to try to protect my credit as best I can!