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Winter Is The Best Time For Car Buying

My sister and her fiancé are both in the market to buy a car. In my sister’s case, she knew there was something wrong not long after buying it. She bought it second hand and did not know that the car was used as a cab in New York City for a number of years and was already in its last leg of its life when my sister bought it unknowingly.

On the other hand, her fiancé’s car was damaged by Hurricane Katrina two years ago. Since then, he has been experiencing problem after problem until he gave up and says it is more economically viable to just replace the car.

This morning, I read a statement from Kimmel and Silverman, a law firm that specializes in Lemon Law, saying that the best time to buy a car is in winter. Are cars sold cheaper in winter compared to other seasons? I don’t know.

My sister told me that this time, they are both going to buy new cars. Is makes more sense since they are more financially stable now and new cars come with warranty. Although not all used cars will give problems, they are unwilling to take the risk as any down time to their vehicle will cost them time and money.

Also, when a car has manufacturer’s warranty and it has clocked significant time in the workshop, the owner will be entitled to a one-to-one. I think that the car owner will have to hire an attorney to fight for it but if there is a case, they could obtain cost-free legal help. There are many avenues for car owners to make their claims under the Lemon Law, it is just that car owners need to know their rights and seek legal help when necessary.

Traffic Exchangers

A couple of days ago, I read a very good article on how to bring in traffic to our blogs. I know that I need such guidance and one of the tips given is to participate in traffic exchanging services.

Firstly, I am not sure if this will work and even if it does, will it be considered as traffic manipulation? My concern is getting sustainable traffic and not from participants in traffic exchanges whose only concern is to chalk up credit.

Talking about traffic, I remember once I had to fill out a form and answer a question like this:

Q: Which of your blog post received the highest traffic? What did you write about?

I did not know what to reply. I can’t tell them that my top posts were on fried sperm and c-string gua ….. lol

Building a blog is not difficult but building traffic and readership is!

It’s Gift-Giving Time

What I love about Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year is the act of gift-giving. It’s not even the monetary value of the gifts but the thought that we put in getting just that perfect gift for our friends, family and colleagues. This could be time consuming if we do not know the recipient that well or what he or she really likes.

If you are in this situation, then may I suggest getting fruit baskets? I find that fruit baskets are always well received and one could never go wring with them. Seriously, there will be no chance for us to get something of the wrong size or color for fruit baskets, can we?

Moreover, fruit baskets are great in the sense that we could throw in whatever we like into the gift according to our budget. Some people would add in chocolate, cheese and other gourmet food and even wine. The possibilities are endless.

This Christmas, I will also be giving a couple of friends, gourmet gift baskets. I love seeing their look of surprise when they find something special in the fruit basket!

Akismet De-Spam Doesn’t Stick

I am not sure if I am the only one with this problem. I believe you know that I have this major issue with being spammed to death and if I were to leave my Spam folder alone for one day, I would have more than a thousand spam comments waiting for me.

The problem is that real, legitimate comments are sometimes caught by Akismet too which is not so much as a problem except that I would have to go through the folder every single day to make sure that all comments in there are nothing that I would like to keep.

I have tried to De-Spam time and again but I do find these same people being caught again and again. This could get pretty annoying, don’t you think so? I wonder if this is a bug that only I am experiencing because I don’t see anyone complaining also….

Buying Fitness Gym Equipment

In one of my recent posts, I talked about a friend who is trying to lose weight, so much so that he is willing to band himself. I don’t know if that is such a good idea because there may be complications later on in life, who knows?

I still think that exercise and proper diet are the best and I told him that he should set up a mini gym at home so that he could work out at home and there would be no more excuse about not going to the gym because of bad weather!

Coincidentally, I stumbled upon a fitness gym equipment online store and I think that my friend could find anything that suits his budget in the set up of his mini gym at home.

Peakbody Fitness has a wide range of used gym fitness equipment for commercial or home use. I think that used gym equipment would be prefect for my friend since he would not have to spend too much money with setting up a gym at home. Going out of budget could cause him to be demotivated and he may give up half way!

I Changed My Mind

I know I mentioned that I would rather not register multiple accounts with EntreCard because I have so many blogs and managing that many different user IDs and passwords would be overwhelming. I know that they are working hard to allow members to submit multiple blogs under one account but tat would not be so soon.

Seriously, is there anyone STILL with only ONE blog? Haha…. mot of my blogger friends have at least two blogs. Hard core bloggers will have at least five! *gasp*

Anyway, I changed my mind because since the day I registered my blog with Entrecard, traffic has been phenomenal. I know they came just to drop their card but some spent time to read my blog as well.

The advantage of having multiple accounts with EntreCard and registering different blogs means that I could better categorize my blogs in their respective categories, which I would not be able to do so should I use only own account and the same widget on all my blogs. That would be rather self-defeating.

So I will be setting aside some time later to register my blogs one by one lol

Information On Kauai Vacation

I am sure you have read a few posts on my friend’s preparation of her Hawaiian vacation. Another friend of mine read those posts and asked me if it would not be too late to plan for a trip to Hawaii for early December. I am sure that there would be places that could still help her with reservations for one of the Kauai vacation rentals, for example.

So far, this friend has already done a little research and planning but has yet to make definite travel arrangements. Well, I told her that she could try to see if flights and accommodation are still available. I know that some agents would even be able to give discounts to last minute bookings. I don’t know how they are able to provide that because for the few times that I made last minute travel plans, I was charged a premium!

Anyway, my friend read up as much as she could on Hawaii Vacation Info from the Kauai Travel Blog.

I did mention to her that Hawaiian Beach Rentals offers a beautiful array of beach rentals at very reasonable prices that would not break her holiday budget.