Tony Brewer

Being a home owner is a never ending challenge. Last night I found that the dryer isn’t running properly. It’s an older model, bought second hand so there is no warranty on the darn thing. Looks like I’ll be spending some time this weekend working on it. If I can’t get it up and running properly by then I’ll be looking for a new one.

It is back to school for many of today’s students this week. We will be seeing the big yellow school buses on all the neighborhood roads each weekday morning and afternoon once again. Going back to school in August just doesn’t seem right. We never started school until the day after Labor Day for heaven’s sake. I hear that some schools started on August 2nd, isn’t that just crazy!

My favorite nephew will be graduating high school (at least we hope he will) this year and with the help of some college grants he just might be able to attend at least a half way decent university. Having the Internet certainly makes the task of college scholarships a much easier one to tackle, wish we had had the Internet back in my educational days. With websites such as schoolscholarships.org available even finding good quality minority scholarships shouldn’t be such a challenge.

I can’t believe that my nephew will be out on his own as soon as next summer. He is a good kid and will most likely go far given half a chance. Guess we will see how his senior year goes. I wish him luck!

I had never heard of having gold IRA or gold 401k accounts before Teri’s Uncle Steve told us that he had taken a hard look at his savings plans and had decided to perform a gold IRA transfer.

I always thought that if you invested in gold that you had to physically HAVE the gold in your house or in a safety deposit box! I’m not exactly sure how much trust I would put in a company that says that they will hold onto the gold for you! It just puts me in mind of a rascal that my brother used to work for back in the 1980s who sold the same piece of gold to several different clients, telling them that he would keep it safe for them in his office! These things worry me! I’d have to do a lot of investigating before doing something like that!

The best thing on McDonald’s $1 menu is definitely their sweet tea. And you can get all the refills that you can drink. That’s a good deal. I’m glad that other fast food restaurants have caught on to the concept of selling a part of their menu at a reduced price that people can afford these days in such economic turmoil.

It is going on to one year since Obama has been in office. No one that I know or am related to is seeing an improvement in the economy that has been in a crisis for several years now. The unemployment rate is crazy high, there are more and more houses for sale up and down the roads in the neighborhoods and people are getting crazy desperate. Home break ins are on the rise, while drug and alcohol abuse is effecting more and more people all across the country.

More people are using their credit cards in order to survive, with interest rates as crazy as 29.9%. Can you imagine? A good credit repair company can really be helpful in times like this. I know several people that have turned to a credit repair company in order to help them from going under, big time.

I’ve been lucky, the few credit cards that I have I have been able to keep under control and the interest rates are now hovering around 12% which is a good deal in this day and age of soaring interest rates for the general public that are relying on credit cards in order to keep food on their table and a roof under the heads. Not to mention the cost of gas and everything else that we have become accustomed to having in the 21st century.

If I was to be in the market for a good credit repair company I believe that the Internet would be a valuable tool in order to find one that suites the needs for each individual situation. There is help out there and the Internet can make the task of all that type of research a much easier task to tackle.