Archive for the ‘Identity Theft’ Category

Tuesday July 6  2010 ——————————— Our thanks to Jason Fitzpatrick and Lifehacker.com _______________________________________ If you’ve started biking more to cut down on gas consumption you might have noticed what a pain it is to transport things on a bicycle. Convert a bicycle to a cargo bike and you’ll be hauling groceries in style. Instructables user [...]

Tuesday June 22  2010 ___________________ Our thanks to Green Deane and EatTheWeeds.com __________________________________________

Sunday June 20  2010 ___________________ Our thanks to Jon Bruner, Forbes.com, and Survivalblog.com ______________________________________________ Please check out this fascinating interactive map: Where Americans Are Moving. If you click on an individual move segment, it shows the average income level of those moving. As an interesting example, click on Teton County, Wyoming. Wow! (Could this be, [...]

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Saturday June 5  2010 ______________________________________ Our thanks to Marilyn Zelinsky-Syarto and ShelterPop.com _____________________________________________ Baking soda, boiling water, and aluminum foil clean tarnished silver-plated heirlooms. Photo: Noricum, Flickr Baking soda isn’t just for deodorizing your fridge or for cooking: We explore he many joys of using baking soda around the house. How can baking soda be [...]

Tuesday June 1  2010 _____________________________________ Our thanks to Roxanne Griswold and James Wesley, Rawles ________________________________________________ Sea Salt–An Indispensable Commodity for Uncertain Times, by Roxanne Griswold When we think about setting aside emergency supplies, most of us would agree that preserved food and purified water are the essentials and everything else is secondary to these. Some [...]

Friday May 28  2010 ____________________________ Our thanks to consumer advocate Clark Howard ______________________________________ Don’t accept or carry anything larger than a $20 bill RIP-OFF ALERT: Clark Howard has a rule: He never carries anything larger than a $20 bill. Why? Because bills larger than that have a much higher chance of being counterfeit. The Los [...]

Thursday May 27  2010 ______________________________________ Click here to watch slide show

Tuesday May 25  2010 _________________________________________ Our thanks to SurvivalBlog.com ________________________ I would like your thoughts on something. I have been stocking up on silver for many years, but I’m wondering what you think will happen to the value of it at TEOTWAWKI(the end of the world as we know it). Here is my thinking, right [...]

Sunday May 16  2010 ______________________ Our thanks to Tod and Tod.fm ____________________ An Unusual Way to Beat Inflation By Tod Inflation has all kinds of interesting consequences, and one of them is that you can sometimes profit from the distortions it creates. I’ll explain how to do that in an unusual way. You can actually [...]