How To Study Anything

Great deals via www

Grover — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:53:58 +0000

I happened to bump into a pretty accurate article about sites to save money while reading the Kiplinger letter. http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/21-web-sites-for-finding-deals-online.html The first time I used one of the sites it came up with a Sears 40 inch HDTV that was priced so crazy that they thought it was a mistake. Sears was selling them, though. Might have some future utility.

When I went to Deals of America they showed the free AVG antivirus software I use and a couple good deals for membership at Sams Club. Looks like a great web page.

How to Get the Lowest Prices

Grover — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:40:23 +0000

About 5 months ago I noticed while buying something via Amazon, that I could get an even better price if I agreed to “subscribe” to buying it routinely. For example, as I was buying laundry detergent I could subscribe to automatically buy a quantity either each month or every 6 months. With that deal, I got free shipping and a 15% discount on the already best price I could find. Now, all I have to do is figure out what else I want to subscribe for. Vitamins are on the list. I wish they could deliver more types of groceries!!!

Lowes Discounts

Grover — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:21:48 +0000

We got two discount coupons from Lowes in the mail. They said from “Now until 7/27/10″. We put 50 dollars worth of stuff in our basket and went to pay for it. The cashier said that the coupons were not valid for another week, and that we were too early.

Dairy Queen

Grover — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:15:57 +0000

We have figured out that Tastee Freeze is much better than Dairy Queen. After consuming a medium size vanilla chocolate dip cone, there really is no competition. Tastee Freeze was cheaper too. However, upon second check this place is no longer part of the Tastee Freeze franchise. It is called

B J’s Velvet Freez

What a great place to watch other people too.

How to get the best price for a new car.

Grover — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:36:55 +0000

Having just experienced dealing with a salesman at a car dealer, I thought that some notes related to buying a car might come in handy.
Simply stated…I would not communicate with a salesman more than I have to. For example, never ask a salesman if he would change the offer if you agreed to buy a warrantee. Any time I have asked a question or showed any interest in buying a certain car, it has resulted in miscommunication and confusion. That is why I recommend buying a car based on using a car buying service website from USAA.com It is hooked up to their find a car service and allows you to “build a car” and then get a guaranteed price from a dealer. This website is pretty powerful and even has graphs related to how much that car has been sold for over the past 12 months and what the average cost has been. You don’t have to login or be a member to use their tool.

Another way to buy a car is to use Ebay. You have lots of time to review the car being sold, and to double check what that car should cost by using sites such as USAA.com Make sure to read all the terms of the auction to include the part about paying full payment for the car within 3 days using cashiers check. This is listed on Ebay for each car being auctioned. You can search Ebay closed auctions to confirm what the cars have been selling for.

I am recommending that you can only buy a car that you have a confirmed quote in writing. Once you change any little thing, the salesman is going to start confusing the issure and making your life miserable.

Best and least expensive laundry detergent

Grover — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:59:29 +0000

I suggest Biokleen powder. It gets things cleaner and we use less of it.

Once we knew that we liked it when we bought a box at Wholefoods, I looked on Google shopping.

However the best deal was found at Amazon.com because they offered free shipping. We combined it with their version of dish powder. Not quite sure why Google did not show the Amazon price and offer but now I know to always check Amazon.

Chocolate cake - sometimes called crazy cake

Grover — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:13:41 +0000

Very Dangerous Cake

1 Coffee mug

4 tablespoons flour (that’s plain flour, not self-rising)

4 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons baking cocoa

1 egg white

3 tablespoons milk

3 tablespoons oil

3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)

Small splash of vanilla

Optional

Dash of cinnamon

Dash of instant coffee or instant espresso

Handful of nuts

Oil (spray) your mug (inside). Use oversized coffee mug.

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.

Add the egg and mix thoroughly.

Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.

Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla, and mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 2.5 minutes at 1000 watts.

The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!

Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to share!)

And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world?

Because now you are only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

Guilt free hot chocolate drink (sugar free)

Grover — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:50:28 +0000

Recipe for coffee substitute.
Use a small cup.
4 teaspons of 100% pure Cocoa

4 tiny measures of organic Stevia Extract powder

Slowly fill and stir with hot water
Sprinkle a generous amount of ground Cinnamon over the top of the drink.

Attacked by 2010 Virus scam

Grover — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:17:42 +0000

Last week my laptop was brought down by some sort of virus attack. All I know is that I was surfing at Ancestry.com when I got a pop up window that said something like “your computer has a virus” and “click here to fix”. I clicked in the upper right hand corner to close the pop up and the whole computer froze. I could not even start task manager. All I could do was power down the machine and restart. When I did, it was still frozen with a placard on the desktop saying something about virus infected and click here to fix. My windows kernal had been changed and the only way to rid myself of this horrible situation was to re-install the operating system. We have installed Ubuntu Linux, which in itself was not an easy task since we had to figure out a way to boot and install it from a thumb drive. Ubuntu is the most popular desktop version of Linux. We picked it because it has great hardware support, an easy installer, and a huge community of support. Now I am using Linux with Firefox as a browser. Firefox is less susceptible to virus attacks. Not sure why. Right now we have no anti-virus software running at all.

The strange part about my computer being brought down by this virus is that one of my friends had the exact same attack about 2 months ago. He also had to wipe his hard drive. Ubuntu came with software for my scanner, open office, and even some photo editing software. I could never afford to buy all that software from Microsoft. So Linux was a simple choice based on the cost.

Free e-learning

Grover — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:01:00 +0000

A big headline on the AARP Bulletin listed FREE-Learning. The main point of the article is that Massachusetts Institute Of Technology has put 2,000 academic courses online for free access. They included a hyperlink to their AARP article. A fabulous resource included here is Open Culture. Which is a portal to free learning. Right off the bat, you see links to free movies and free online courses. Both sites deserve investigating.