Dr Saxe

My Foolproof Method to Grocery Shopping

This guest post from Errol Chang

I am a creature of habit and that applies to all aspects of my life, even when Shopping for Groceries. My friends never except my offers to come along because they say it takes me long to get out of the door of my home, let alone drive to the store. I admit it, I have a system and I stick with it.

Each week I carefully plan my family’s upcoming meals for the week. Once I have that list completed, I check my local paper and online for coupons to go along with my planned purchases. Although I always purchase the staples–milk, eggs, butter, and cheese–I sometimes tweak my shopping list to coincide with what’s on sale that week. My kids of course love snacks like chips, dip and the most popular cereals, but only those with coupons make it on the list. This practice saves my family a lot of money.

After the total perusal of any and all available coupons, I round-up my most-reluctant children; who, like my friends, don’t enjoy shopping with me. The next steps in my system is to make sure everything is turned off–stove and other appliances–and then, finally, right before leaving the house, I make sure I set my home security alarm system. More about ADT around Charlotte . That completed, it is now safe to proceed on my weekly shopping journey

Online Trading

My brother-in-law, Mike, is getting pretty good with this Online Trading that he started dabbling in last year right around election time. His brother-in-law is a well established Online Broker and has been teaching him some tricks of the Stock Trading business and getting him up to speed.

The economy is forcing a lot of us to look into options that we normally wouldn’t even consider. Mike doesn’t seem to be the type of guy that would be into IRA Accounts and Mobile Trading, much less doing any good at it, but life is full of surprises. I’m glad for him because he does have a large family that needs tending to and they (much like everyone else) are pinching pennies and just trying to keep the roof over their heads, food on the table and soon there will be the need for heat with winter right around the corner.

21st Birthday Party

I appreciate the guest post, Emerson Moses

I decided to use an online birthday party store to create an unforgettable 21st birthday celebration for my best friend. It is a once in a lifetime event, after all! I began my preparations about 8 weeks before the big day. I logged on using my huges net satellite internet service and searched various sites before choosing the one that I most liked.

Partycity.com is the site that I chose to purchase the things that were needed for the birthday bash. I’d been in there stores before, so I knew that the prices were always the best, and I liked the themes that they carried. Since my best friend has a bit of a wild side, I wanted to go with a feel good, get drunk celebration!

I chose a huge banner that featured balloons and 21 plastered all over it with bottles of champagne from hughes net internet in California. I also ordered 200 regular balloons (complete with a air tank) as well as 50 mylar balloons to fill the ball room. I got strobe lights streamers, and some really cool invitations that were personalized for free!

The party turned out fantastic, with more than 100 people in attendance. I saved a lot of money shopping online with PartyCity.com and would recommend checking them out when you need anything party related!

Oil Change

The price of getting an oil change done has dropped. Car repair stores are competing heavily for business and the prices are so low that it makes it hard not to take advantage of their services. I’m used to doing my oil change myself, but after paying for the oil and filter it is worth just a few more dollars for someone else to do it.

Coors Light

I am a beer drinker. I like my beer. I used to be a hard core Budweiser, in the bottle only, fan, but those days are gone. I have now switched over to Coors Light and a nice cold can is just fine. I understand that the price of all beer will be going up in the next month or so. The crops were bad this year and we the consumer will end up paying for it.