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Engaging Debt Consolidation Services and Credit Card Debt Elimination

While surfing the internet this morning, I chanced upon a site on debt consolidation. Some people mentioned to me before that debt consolidation is not the perfect solution to Credit Card Debt Elimination but I have friends who have engaged the help of companies that offer Debt Consolidation Services and they managed to clear their credit card debt slowly but surely.

Having said that, I believe that there is not one single solution that is the best. It just depends on our own needs and whichever method that that could help us without much compromising on our part. Debt is an ongoing accumulation process and we cannot expect to clear it in a single stroke. Therefore, we cannot expect a miracle in any way that we choose to overcome our debts.

Some people have asked me why I prefer to use cash when I could easily swipe my many credit cards. The reason is that I don’t want to tempt myself with the convenience of using credit cards. It is way too easy to train myself to use credit cards and fall into the bad habit of charging first, pay later.

Many people do this thinking that they could easily pass off their credit card debt by the end of the month but more often than not, they would have miscalculated their budget and may not be able to settle their outstanding bills at the end of the month as expected and that is when interest would start to snowball!

So now you know!

Yahoo!!!

I’m so proud of myself! I spent the past thirty minutes upgrading my WordPress database for my four WordPress blogs. Actually, I attempted to upgrade two blogs from version 2.0 to 2.2 in early August but there was a plug-in conflict that made my upgraded hang. It was unclean and I left the blogs like that hahaha!

Now, two months later, I finally found the time to sort things out and once I found the error, did the upgrade for all three of my blogs and upgraded two 2.2 to version 2.3, one 2.0 to version 2.3 and one 2.2 to version 2.3. Can you believe that I have to take this long to do a simple task like that? Hah! I just took that long 😀

Well, that just shows how free I am this morning. Total earned from sponsored posts within the past 24 hours – ZERO. Well, it happens SOMETIMES!! I hope it would a regular habit, though!

I just have to laugh at myself. Upgrading went so smoothly and to think that I kept bugging my host to help me with the upgrade because I was afraid that I would mess up my blog and then lose all my posts or screw up my blogs. Bleh! Thankfully everything went well! Yahoooo!

Trivia: Total number of spam comments that came in while Akismet was deactivated: FIVE

Cop Shoes & Boots

When I came to the website of CopShoes, I suddenly remember a friend of mine who liked to dress in cop shoes and there is a guy who is a little mentally slow who would run away because he thought that my friend was really a cop. I don’t know where my friend bought his Rocky Boots though, because we certainly have never even heard of the internet before.

If it is not obvious enough yet, CopShoes is the ultimate online store that carries a wide range of what else but Cop shoes, and boots. Besides Rocky boots, you can also find Bates Boots, Altama, Converse, Danner and many other major footwear brand names.

I have browsed through many online stores and shopped regularly online and Cop Shoes is one of the easiest site to navigate. You can shop by brand name or style and it would not take you long to look for the shoes or boots that meet your requirement.

Although I have not shopped at Cop Shoes before because I have no use for these boots, I was told that the prices here are very competitive and they re backed by a solid reputation with excellent customer service. The most important thing with online stores though, is the quality products and it looks like Cop Shoes have these all in their police and military boots and footwear.

Page Rank Down

Have you heard that there was a Page Rank Update over the weekend? Well, it was more like a “Down date” as many blogs and websites were demoted. Page Rank is something that we should never take for granted.

As a blogger with seven active blogs, one of mine was downgraded from a 3 to 2. I was not surprised as that was one of the least visited blogs. It was a 2 just before monetizing it and went up to 3 in the following update. It stayed at 3 in the next nine months or so but now it is back to its original two.

Well, I guess I am rather relieved that I am not as hard hit as other people. I read that some people dropped from a 3 to zero over night. That would be a nightmare!

After all is said and done, as long as our blogs is not totally removed from the index of major search engines, we would have the chance to build up our blogs or site once again.

Refurbished POS Equipment The Way To Go

I was checking for something on the internet when I stumbled upon the website of Vision Point of Sale. Boy, do they have the largest collection of used point of sale. To be frank, when I first found out that companies really use refurbished IBM pos equipment and other brands, I was surprised and rather skeptical.

I thought that we will always have to take them in for servicing or repair but I was wrong when I experienced refurbished Fujitsu Point of Sale equipment at my company. Perhaps Fujitsu is such a reliable brand but then as long as they are well refurbished following stringent rules and procedure, they can last very long without giving us any down time.

Did you know that the leading company to offer such services is Vision POS? Not only are they suppliers of refurbished equipment, they help you to dispose them off as well when the equipment is totally dead.

I think that all companies that are using POS equipment should get refurbished ones because it is a great way to save cost.

As If I Am Not Busy Enough

Sometime back, I received a notice that I would need to have at least ten posts in a forum before I would be able to reply to my Private Messages. And I was like, “What the heck force us to participate in the forum!” but I do understand that this was a measure taken to counter spammers in the forum. Heh.. spammers are everywhere and they are posting porn in forums.

I spent a few hours at the forum reading and replying to threads and finally managed to get that ten posts under my belt within a day. Some of you may wonder why it took me that long to accumulate ten posts. Well, I like to read and respond intelligently. And reading takes up a lot of time when I have never been in the forum before and the threads are long.

Anyway, am glad that I passed the mark and am now able to reply to my private messages. I’m just feeling lucky that their minimum is not set to 20 to 50 haha! Hope they won’t keep putting the bar higher and higher, though!

October: A Month Of Breast Cancer Awareness

A couple of year ago, my friend wanted to buy me a pashmina shawl as a birthday gift. That was the first time I heard of pashminas. I declined because it is not suitable for our weather and I would only have kept it unused.

If I had that pink pashmina with me right now, I would have twisted it into the shape of a ribbon and hung it by my window that is visible from the outside. October is a month of breast cancer awareness.

Last year when I started to blog, I wrote about it and this year is no different. I believe that every October will see me blogging about breast cancer education, awareness and research. I believe that it us our duty to spread the word, what more that I am a woman and the breast cancer threat is very real.

Although as a individual we are not able to do much, it is good to note that many companies are chipping in too. Pashmina International, for example, is donating 10% of all sales that include a pink pashmina to breast cancer research.