Save Money Like Crazy In These Bad Economic Times

June 17th, 2009

human piggy bank - funny

Here are a few tips to hunker down and save like crazy.

Consider these extreme money saving tips to cut your grocery bill down to under $7 a day.

  • Buying in bulk
  • Making your own coffee
  • Freezing leftover food

Take saving money to the next level.

  • Only buy sale items,
  • Stay away from brand loyalty
  • Use coupons for most purchases

People Are Struggling In This Recession - Part 1

June 12th, 2009

Recession Homeless Man holding sign

A lot of people are suffering and struggling through the worse recession since the last great depression. All over the United States, Canada and abroad people are losing jobs, homes and wondering where their next meal is coming from.  Below is just one example of how the lives of the struggling are unfolding.

How To Survive A Job You Do Not Like or Hate

June 10th, 2009

i hate or don't like my jobThe alarm clock goes off and the pain and agony overcomes your body like a bad case of influenza. Your body aches, you feel anxiety and your mind tries to calculate the cause and effect of this feeling and at the same time trying to come up with a valid reason not to leave the protection of your cozy. You are not sick from a bug, it is actually way worse.

How Bruce Lee Changed The World - A Bruce Lee Documentary - Bringing Martial Arts To The West

May 30th, 2009

Legend of Bruce Lee - How Bruce Lee Changed the world Documentary

If you do not know who Bruce Lee was, you are probably in your early 20’s in age, for the rest of you older than 30 years of age you have probably seen a few of his movies or read a martial arts magazine article about him.

If you know of Bruce Lee or not it doesn’t matter, because this legendary individual’s influence to the world of martial arts, action movies and physical fitness has touched everyone in some way or another.

Google Picasa (beta) For Mac OS X - Free Photo Manager

May 20th, 2009

Google Picasa 3 for Mac OS X

The Apple eMac computer at home running Mac OS x Tiger 10.4.11 is one of computer in our household that is used extensively.  We use it to surf the internet (safely), peer to peer downloading, watch DVDs and online movies as well as listen to music.

Holding Off On Big Ticket Items / Purchases - 42 inch LCD TV and Computer Hardware

May 13th, 2009

Shopping for a LCD TV

With the way the economy is right now, and the job market so uncertain I think a lot of people are holding off on making big ticket items. As for myself, there are two products I specifically want to purchase…a 42 inch LCD TV and a computer for my Hackintosh project, but will wait until the company I work for make its decisions on laying off more people…so there is no sense in buying a large screen LCD TV to find out later, the company is letting go employees, that would just not be financially prudent. Even if my company doesn’t let me go, I think I may still hold off until Christmas or early next year to make my big ticket purchases.

Swine Flu Knock Out Punch To The Economy?

April 30th, 2009

Swine flu and its economic affects and impact

Looking at the my FireFox browser, which default homepage is Yahoo, I can see clearly the the swine flu outbreak has taken over the headlines. When, I go to other other websites like MSN and even to my local area news websites like the Toronto Star, it’s always on the front page and this reminded me of the S.A.R.S incident back in 2003 where Toronto and Hong Kong was affected hard.

If You’ve Got Company Health Insurance - Now Is The Time To Use It - Before A Lay Off

April 22nd, 2009

Company health Benefits and Insurance

My company is currently heading for an imminant lay off in my department. My department already went through two rounds of lay offs, and now it looks like another one is coming soon.

So in light of this situation many of my fellow co-workers and myself are taking advantage of all their health benefits…NOW! If you have dependents like kids or husband / wife get everyone in the family taken care of as well.

Recently Bought Used Apple eMac PowerPC G4 800Mhz Computer with 768MB of RAM Running Mac OS X Tiger

April 10th, 2009

Apple eMac 800Mhz computer Mac OS X TigerTo get rid off Microsoft Windows operating system / platform in my household, I bought a used Apple eMac computer about 5 months ago to get my feet wet in the world of Apple Mac OS X operating system, and to of course not have to
deal with any more viruses, spyware and all that crap associated with Microsoft Windows.

How much did I pay for the Apple eMac?

Should America Be Blamed By The Rest Of The World For Causing The Global Economic Recession / Decline?

April 7th, 2009

Here is a video of a British economist, talking about how the rest of the world feel right now about the irresponsibilities of the U.S Government and the U.S financial system.

Click “PLAY” to watch the video…interesting views.

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