Jan Cline Holds Yard Sales To Pay Medical Bills; City Shuts Them Down

August 25th, 2011

According to KATU-TV in Salem, Ore., Jan Cline, a woman with terminal bone marrow cancer, has been holding yard sales to raise money to pay off her bills.

But Cline recently received an unfortunate notice from the city of Salem: She is breaking the law, and the city is shutting her yard-sale operation down.

Why ever would they do this? Because Salem has a law that says a person can only have three yard sales in one year.

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Tags: Bills, Jan Cline, Yard Sales

Car Insurance In Florida

August 24th, 2011

Security has become a major issue all over the world in the 21st century.Whether it is our own lives, our homes or just anything that we possess.Thus, it has led to an increase in the demand for insurances.Insurances for our health, houses, valuable and even cars.Due to the increasing danger and risk of accidents, the car insurances have had a high demand.Car insurances are mostly taken to help protect the loss during times of major damage.They decrease the possibility of a very high loss in the accident.

The internet houses a number of companies that offer cheap car insurances.Moreover, the method of getting a car insurance on the internet is way more simple than the mainstream method of getting it from a bank or a firm.You need to find the providers of these insurances in your area and get quotes from all of them.As for example, if you are in Florida then you can just search for the term ‘Car insurance in Florida’ and you will be shown hundreds of companies that offer car insurance in Florida.

After this, ask for car insurance quotes from all of these providers according to your need.Quotes for cheap car insurance are offered by every website.Some of these websites also provide a tabular comparing table of the quotes by various other websites under the same roof.You can go through all these different quotes and further finalize on the ideal car insurance for your car.One should make sure, he/she goes through all the quotes in all aspects from the monthly payment to the interest and the returns to make sure nothing is missed.

After having decided on the perfect car insurance for your car the car insurance company would need some vital details and documents for the application.Filling up the application is just a matter of minutes on the internet.The process is so easy it saves almost 3/4th of your time.When the insurance application is accepted, the car is insured from that very moment.The internet has succeeded in decreasing the problems and the waste of time that come across while applying for insurances to banks and firms, thus making the whole process acceptable and praised all over the globe.

Cheap car insurances are thus easily available online in the matter of a few minutes and a few clicks.Because here, making the right decision is very important.But once made, your car is perfectly secured for years!

Lessons Learned from the Netflix Price Hike

July 28th, 2011

Last week Netflix raised their rates, increasing the price of some plans by as much as sixty percent. Where before a plan with one DVD out at a time and unlimited streaming was $9.99 per month, the same service will now cost $15.98. Ouch. The outrage online was swift and furious. Customers were losing a great deal and weren’t shy about bashing Netflix on Facebook and blogs. As someone who uses Netflix heavily as a replacement for cable, I was among the outraged. (I’m still deciding what to do with my subscription: scale back, keep it as is, or cancel altogether.) Once I got over my shock I realized that Netflix’s action has reminded me of a few key financial/consumer lessons that apply to all kinds of goods and services.

A price increase might not break the budget, but it does have to be considered: No, an extra $6 per month isn’t going to break my budget. I can a

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South Korea’s longest banking strike: Rebels without a cause

July 26th, 2011

What do we want? A gerontocracy

A SIGN on the ground floor of SC First Bank’s headquarters in Seoul reads “Here for good”. “Here for better or worse” might be more appropriate. The boss of Standard Chartered’s Korean subsidiary, Richard Hill, is locked in a battle with unionised workers over the introduction of performance-related pay. Over 2,500 of his 6,500 staff have been on strike since June 27th, making this the longest walkout in Korean banking history.

The idea of remunerating staff on their performance is hardly revolutionary, other parts of the South Korean economy included. But Korean bank staff are typically paid and promoted according to age and time served. The result

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Paying to Save Money

July 24th, 2011


A coworker of mine recently decided to get her finances in order.

She admitted her debt troubles and her concerns that they don’t have anything saved for the future, let alone emergencies. While I applaud her desire to fix things, I question the method and the seriousness of her effort.

I had to hide a chuckle when she showed up in the office after lunch the other day with two big bags. One was from Office Max and the other was from Barnes and Noble. She proceeded to show us all of her purchases: Quicken, a ledger, six books on personal finance, and a blank journal. S

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