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Online Auctions - Blog Carnival - Issue #1

Online Auctions - Blog Carnival - Issue #1

Welcome to the March 23, 2008 edition of online auctions.

This is the first edition of the Online Auction blog carnival.   For those of you not familiar with a blog carnival, think of it as a magazine related to a specific topic.  Authors will submit their posts/articles to the carnival and then an editor (me) will [...]

Do We Really Need this Product?

Do We Really Need this Product?

We were looking through the current issue of Cabin Life magazine this afternoon and came across an advertisement for a P-Pak.  I couldn’t help but wonder why I would ever want or need such a product.   I went to the website in the advertisement to find out.
The following are quotes from the press release:
1. [...]

USPS Priority Mail NOT a Priority?

USPS Priority Mail NOT a Priority?

The USPS is really making it convenient for home businesses to ship items.  You print postage online, and schedule your mail carrier to pick it.  It really couldn’t be much easier…No more waiting in those long post office lines.
On March 6th I sent 4 Priority Mail packages.  Now their website clearly indicates that Priority [...]

Vacation Video - Yellowstone Park

Vacation Video - Yellowstone Park

What’s could be worse than forcing your friends to watch family slides of your vacation?  How ’bout putting those slides to music and making them available for the entire world to view?   I was cleaning up one of my old computers and found a Windows Movie I made that is a compilation of pictures from [...]

Random Thoughts #2 - Pharmacies and Privacy

Random Thoughts #2 - Pharmacies and Privacy

I was standing in a pharmacy line yesterday waiting to pickup my prescription.  The woman at the front of the line was talking with the pharmacist and then proceeded to have a literal breakdown.   There wasn’t much about her story and her problem that those of us in line didn’t get to know by the [...]

Random Thoughts #1 - Stumbleupon

Random Thoughts #1 - Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon is one of the many many social bookmark sites that are available to the Internet surfer.  These bookmark sites allow you to save/remember sites and posts that you have visited or read.  You can then share those posts with others on the same network and in some cases offer additional insight about the post.
I [...]

Spring Cleaning - Wasted Life!!!

Spring Cleaning - Wasted Life!!!

Spring is arriving and with spring comes that annual ritual of spring cleaning.  You know what I’m talking about…dusting, vacuuming, washing and polishing like you do no other time of the year.  Some refer to it as a “deep cleaning”.  I like to refer to it as a waste of my time at that time [...]

How Low Will the FED Go?

How Low Will the FED Go?

When I consider House Refinancing I can’t help but ask myself if this is the right time to be doing this or if I should continue to wait in anticipation that the rates will continue to drop.  With the “R” word (recession) on everyone’s mind I look at where my mortgage and my second mortgage [...]

Another eBay Seller Boycott - May 1

Another eBay Seller Boycott - May 1

There is an ever increasing rumble that sellers are NOT through with their protest of the changes that eBay is making to their system.  eBay seems to have taken the stance that if they just ignore the rumblings they will go away, and many rumblers are going away to other auction sites like ePier, OnlineAuction, [...]

Spring is Here... Time for Hiking Boots!

Spring is Here… Time for Hiking Boots!

With the latest break in our weather - We’re actually seeing 50+ degrees which is quite nice since we’ve had like the 10th or 11th worst winter on record. - I’ve been looking for a new pair of hiking boots.  Now I must say that clothing and shoes are not something that I purchase much [...]