Not long ago I read an article that stated that “real men” don’t wear funny tshirts. That statement really surprised me – I’ve bought funny t-shirts as gifts to a lot of the grown men in my family for years, and the men have always loved them, and worn them. I can understand that they would not be appropriate to wear to the business office, but on a day off and you’re running errands, or at a cook-out/picnic, why not?
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Credit Cards seem to be in the news an awful lot lately. For a good while it seemed that you couldn’t turn on the television news without hearing a story about how the companies are changing their terms to the consumer now to increase their interest rates and fees so that they can beat the deadline the Congress has passed for the bill that is supposed to prevent them from doing what they are doing now. Personally I am outraged that these companies are putting the hurts on the consumer in this way. I know a lot of people who have decided to pay cash, and since they are limited on cash that means that they will be buying less this year.
I think that this is a good time to step back and compare top credit cards. See which ones are increasing their rates, and which ones are not. It should not be very difficult to determine which are the best credit cards for your needs. I think that this is the perfect time to send a message to the big companies that we don’t need them as much as they need us! If that means that we spend less money on Christmas gifts this year, then so be it! The kids don’t need a dozen gifts under the tree!
Last week my hubby told me that he was asked to do a secret shop for a company that was going to evaluate Wal-Mart and Western Union. There was a television news story about this type of situation a couple of years ago about this secret shop being a fraud, so I told my hubby that it is a scam designed to make us lose money. Western Union does not participate in secret shops. Well, he didn’t believe me and we had a big fight about it. And I mean big. Screaming, ranting, name-calling big.
So in today’s mail we received the package and my hubby opened it, saw what it was and handed it to me. He didn’t say a word about it, he just handed it to me. Inside was a postal money order for $990 and a letter directing him to cash the money order at his bank, go to Wal-Mart and spend $50 on anything he wanted, then go to Western Union and wire $724 to a person in the Philippines.
I called the Post Office to report the fraud and they put me on hold for forty-five minutes and then disconnected me. So I drove up to the local Post Office with then entire package and told the Post Master on duty what was going on. He looked at the money order and told me that it was a very good fake money order. The best fake he’d ever seen! But he also said that there was an email he received from their fraud department about fake money orders for $990 being circulated and he was pretty sure this was one of them. He called his fraud hot-line and talked to them. You could tell by his side of the conversation that they wanted him to arrest me!
It ended up with him “confiscating” the entire package (I turned it in to report the fraud for crying out loud!) and thanking me for reporting it and sending me on my way. Doubtful that they will be able to catch and punish the perpetrators, but I hope that they do!
I read the online papers in various cities every morning while I sip my cup of tea and try to wake up. It is the best part of the day for me – I’m up first and the house is quiet for about 30 minutes, so I can click through a dozen sites without any interruptions or distractions.
I read these newspapers every morning and have them bookmarked: