The Homemade Laundry Room

Written by admin on February 16, 2010 – 5:49 am

Several years ago I started looking for alternatives to commercial laundry products. I had two main reasons for doing this. First, commercial products were becoming more and more expensive and I was having trouble finding ones that worked well, or at least well enough to justify their price tags. Second, I wanted products that were more environmentally friendly, less toxic, and less wasteful. No more fumes and chemicals. No more big jugs and bottles to recycle and no more one use dryer sheets heading for the landfill. Through a lot of trial and error, I found several recipes and ideas that make every aspect of doing the laundry cheaper and better for the environment.

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The Cost of Marrying Someone with Bad Credit

Written by admin on February 13, 2010 – 12:58 pm

What better time to talk about couples and credit than the week leading up to Valentine’s Day? 

Okay, credit may be low on the romance scale next to flowers, chocolates, and anything else that desperate or pressured partners buy each other during this Hallmark holiday. But the truth is, your partner’s credit can have a huge impact on your finances. It’s definitely a topic worth discussing (maybe not exactly on Valentine’s Day, but certainly some time in the not-too-distant future).

To illustrate our point about the importance of credit, we created a hypothetical couple: Kelly and Joe. 

Kelly and Joe are married homeowners with kids, and are losing money each month simply because Joe’s credit isn’t that great. Joe wasn’t so

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Why a Free Car Loan Quote is the Answer

Written by admin on February 13, 2010 – 11:48 am

The current economy has caused most bad credit lenders to cut back on the number of loans they are making to consumers. Now more than ever it is important that you locate the right dealer for your bad credit auto loan.

Why you should visit us

At Auto Credit Express we’ve spent the past 20 years working with bad credit applicants and helping many of these consumers raise their FICO scores and reestablish their car credit by financing a vehicle with a bad credit auto loan. During this time, we’ve worked in retail dealerships as special finance managers, trained car dealers to do special finance and developed web sites that bring together our applicants with car dealers all over the U.S. and

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Plan Your Gift-Giving to Save Time and Money

Written by admin on February 12, 2010 – 10:48 pm

This post is from GRS staff writer April Dykman.

Last Christmas, I had some great gift ideas: They were heartfelt, they were personalized — and they couldn’t just be bought at a store. We’re talking custom-made ornaments, family calendars, and photo books filled with precious memories made that year.

Unfortunately, Christmas snuck up on me, and I only pulled together two of the gifts in time for the holiday. This irked me because, one, they were great ideas. Two, I’m a planner. Planning is my thing, and it’s not normal for me to fail to plan. Three, I

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How To Get Bad Debt Consolidation Loans

Written by admin on February 10, 2010 – 4:26 pm

If you find that you are seeing your debts piling up and spiralling out of control and you have been spending more money than you should on your interest payments each month then it might be a good idea for you to consolidate your debt using a bad debt consolidation loan. This is a great thing to do in order to improve your credit rating if you find that you are missing payments and getting charged things like late fees.

Getting a consolidation loan will enable you to pay all of your debts off in one go and put them all together into one single monthly payment. This will enable you to save a lot of money because the rates will be lower for a loan like this than they would have been on the credit cards that you have had. Full Article…


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