tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:39:45 +0000http://livinghelp.com/blog/Don M. TerrillBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-5664108942329823293Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:36:00 +00002008-04-24T13:38:52.280-05:00 Coupons are Buck Savers Before I met the love of my life I had little knowledge of coupon usage and certainly didn’t use them myself. My wife thru experience learned the fine art of using coupons. At one time it was a necessity and then it just became a challenge with her. And the process she uses doesn’t consume a great deal of time. Sometimes in an effort to get out of the house and get http://livinghelp.com/blog/2008/04/imbrace-coupons-there-just-like-money.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-1371383771038199692Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:33:00 +00002008-04-22T08:34:41.806-05:00 We All Have Times Behind the Eight Ball Recently while sitting and waiting to see my family doctor I joined in a conversation with a gentlemen many years younger then me. But according to him he wasn’t fairing as well with life as I was. According to him his current condition prompted numerous tests, which raised his pay obligation to his doctor and that has put him behind the eight ball. I http://livinghelp.com/blog/2008/04/doctors-need-money-help-too.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-2303566680398722512Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:08:00 +00002008-04-12T08:10:26.685-05:00 Most communities offer more Reasonable Housing The Federal Government is the largest provider of help in this area. In the early nineteen thirties the president signed a bill creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Which function was to create good housing for those you could not otherwise afford it. This agency is commonly referred to as HUD today. If a community chooses http://livinghelp.com/blog/2008/04/consider-government-funded-housing.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-8007782746144393049Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:42:00 +00002007-11-18T12:13:07.751-05:00 Seek People Out You probably already know many people that can through their job or someone they know get you a better deal on buying something you need or want. Our Appliance Connection We have one distant family member who works for a well known appliance manufacturer and over the years we have enjoyed saving large sums of money buying products through his employee discount arrangement http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/11/ask-around-for-better-deal.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-8133208775292229118Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:19:00 +00002007-08-02T06:56:01.661-05:00 Cheaper Prescriptions My lovely wife loves finding the best deal around for everything we require in our life. Recently my doctor suggested I start taking a prescription to control my cholesterol number, which my doctor says is a warning sign I need to pay attention to. So he prescribed a certain drug for me to take. My first trial bottle was for thirty days to see if it worked for me and http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/08/best-prescription-deal-we-could-find.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-1973674031448115209Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:59:00 +00002007-07-26T05:39:42.250-05:00 Best Telephone Deal We Could Find We used to have our telephone service with the local telephone company. That is until a bargain deal got mailed to us from an Internet telephone service called Sun Rocket. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not making any cash by recommending this company. I’m mentioning this company only because it’s the only one that’s so cheap that I'm familiar with. $ 13.26 http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/07/cheap-telephone-service.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-2698572492320360635Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:31:00 +00002007-06-28T06:29:16.452-05:00 He Mentioned a Problem Allow me to give you an example of what I’m talking about. I used to live next to an older gentlemen who from time to time would causally mention that something was running amok in his life. And me being a helpful person used to offer up myself as a possible solution to his problem. One time his toilet was making funny sounds when he flushed the stool. After inspecting http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/06/mention-your-plight-in-company-of.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-5304358573167972305Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:47:00 +00002007-06-21T06:58:21.129-05:00 Work Part Time at a Local Eatery. Always make your shift the one that closes for the day. When you do this you will have many opportunities to take food home. Reprocessing certain foods to the next day is not always a good idea for the eatery, so many items of good food get thrown away not because its not good but because it wont make a good presentation like fresh food will. So tell them http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/06/work-for-left-overs.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-7934488412873357140Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:09:00 +00002007-06-14T11:58:33.811-05:00 Church of Your Choice Church related organizations have long been the backbone of our countries helping people. They on a daily basis have been at the forefront of helping those in need. They are the safety net for those of us who have had hard times and needed help. A Coat in the Winter Time I remember as a young boy going to distribution places where items of clothing could be secured at http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/06/churches-are-always-helpfull.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-8864895405493529676Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:59:00 +00002007-02-20T07:55:33.654-05:00 Avoid being confrontational with your Doctors Being human means that sometimes things don’t go the way you want them to and then we blame the person were dealing with. If this is done in a useful and informative way it can be very useful to all parties involved; but sometimes we take our concerns to a higher level of being really mad and that’s when we step over the line and literally http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/02/suing-your-doctors-wont-get-you-help.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-7939233949850282772Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:10:00 +00002007-02-01T11:31:11.938-05:00 Ride the Wave and Surf with us Ride the Bus and leave the driving to us. Or in our town they say ride the Wave and Surf with us. The bus companies name is called the Wave. If I chose to take the bus I would have to walk four blocks to the nearest bus pickup location from my home and that’s not bad. Ticket Choices DailyWeeklyMonthly One Ticket is good for all day Bus tickets can be purchased http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/02/ride-bus.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-2608079963227042128Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:31:00 +00002007-02-20T09:08:26.085-05:00 Guess What Your not Alone All of us at one time or another have faced the bills stacked on the kitchen table. Its so easy to see something and just cant resist buying it and then one day in the future the grim reaper loan shark knocks on the door and threatens to tumble your life down like humpty dumty did when he fell off the wall. And then the reality of your spending hits home and the http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/01/is-debt-doing-you-in.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-2948608633363854745Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:24:00 +00002007-02-20T09:21:46.395-05:00 I Looked Every Where Else First I remember one very low and disturbing part of my life. I was twenty-four, divorced, no job and was helping raise two boys. Now add too much alcohol to the mix and that’s a crash just waiting to happen. I did everything I could to avoid having to look for a job. I cashed in my life insurance and sought help from my parents to start an imaginary business http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/01/looking-for-helping-hand-try-your-own.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-7299680947179360874Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:16:00 +00002007-02-20T10:30:36.139-05:00 Sharing Rides is a Win Win Situation for Everyone Recently in our residential community a new bee young lady sent out an information letter requesting thoughts from her new residents. She indicated her current employment was working for the local cable company at one of our local mall outlets. She was inquiring if others in her vicinity worked there or close by and would consider car-pooling http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/01/sharing-rides.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-9175727568500405509Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:10:00 +00002007-02-20T10:42:10.766-05:00 We all need Help Raising Children Having Grandchildren is one of the greatest feelings I have ever experienced in my life. Now I’m at a juncture in my life when I can devote one hundred percent of my feelings and thus am enjoying the new bees with observations and feelings I’ve never had time to really totally appreciate before. Playing my part in raising my two sons required working and http://livinghelp.com/blog/2007/01/need-help-with-newborn.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-6620348173669750891Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:17:00 +00002007-02-21T06:22:54.728-05:00 Save for the Future Now I’m not exactly sure when or what prompted this behavior to start in our life. Since my wife and I joined in the togetherness adventure to Love, honor and be faithful to, have and still do maintain thru hard work and diligence have managed to not have to worry about making ends meet. Retiring did require some rethinking about our life style but that didn’t hardly causehttp://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/save-money-conserve-your-natural.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-8231847459145378485Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:24:00 +00002007-02-21T06:34:44.969-05:00 Wanted to Go Home While supervising a high-rise rental facility I had the pleasure to meet many well-informed and compassionate people. One such lady was the daughter of one of my tenants. Our first meeting was when she stopped in the office to pay her Mothers rent and introduced herself in the process. It was friendship at first sight. On this visit she stayed thru the winter months helping http://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/free-live-in-healthcare-offer-ownership.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-5615900773207935855Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:46:00 +00002007-02-21T06:53:51.188-05:00 We Don't Farm Out as Much Years ago unless we had the skill we farmed out many tasks around the house. Especially plumbing and electrical. Now days unless you have more money then you need, you do it yourself. And I think there are two reasons for this phenomenon. One there’s easy access to information on the subject matter. Like television for example we have cable and there are numerous http://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/save-money-by-learning-do-things.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-1830245032991772573Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:33:00 +00002007-02-21T07:08:04.155-05:00 We Just Start & Drive Most of us hardly ever give a second thought to the needs of our vehicle. We jump in, turn on the ignition and if the car moves then that’s all the thought we give to it; that’s till the gas gauge says I’m hungry. Then begrudgingly we fill the tank and moan about the price of gas. Of course we do the same thing with ourselves three times a day and give little thought to http://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/better-mileage-pay-attention-to-your.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-1955736873284255717Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:47:00 +00002007-02-21T07:41:34.187-05:00 Joined Sam's Club Have you every noticed how life takes you under its wing and makes good things happen for you? Recently we were members of a wholesale house called Sams and we enjoyed saving money buying things we needed from them. They offered four types of membership we chose the cheapest one, it was called the Advantage Membership and cost forty bucks. We quickly saved enough to justify http://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/save-moneyjoin-coscos-as-member.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-2960207800318811861Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:47:00 +00002007-02-21T07:50:07.825-05:00 Rent Out Your Extra Bedroom I bet if you gave it a little thought, you probably know someone that’s experiencing the same circumstance that you are. Costs of things are rising faster then your income is increasing. And maybe right now your one person living with two bedrooms and the second bedroom is just gathering dust. Just imagine this, rent the other bedroom to someone and cut your http://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/rent-cheap-have-someone-move-in-with.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-9024612430073083620Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:01:00 +00002007-02-21T08:22:37.386-05:00 Ask for Free Samples Your doctors whether you realize it or not are given free samples on a regular basis. And the prescription people are doing this to promote the sale of their products. Your doctor can give these samples to anyone he pleases that generally includes new users, so the new bee user can try them and see if they work for them. And they also share them with the regular patients http://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/dont-be-shy-about-asking-for.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-7977368448584023025Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:18:00 +00002007-02-21T09:25:16.871-05:00 Way to Save Water in the Shower Savings 1. Most people including myself use more water then we should. Recently I started paying attention to the way I use the water in our house. I discovered many ways to lower our water usage. I’m a shower using person and always leave the shower running all the time I’m in the shower. After talking to my wife I discovered she uses the shower long enough tohttp://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/consider-ways-to-lower-your-water-bill.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-5273757895887865307Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:26:00 +00002007-02-21T10:17:22.421-05:00 I Started Mowing Grass When I was seventeen I lived in Long Beach California. I was drawn there by an acquaintance of my youth for the purpose of working in his lawn maintenance business. When we first talked he gave me the impression his business was booming and he had more help then what he could do on his own. Having no job I accepted his generous ticket, hopped the greyhound bus and spenthttp://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/seek-help-from-your-religious.htmlDon L. Terrilltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37838873.post-1216130260209204549Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:20:00 +00002007-02-21T10:45:08.492-05:00 A Two Person Restraunt I meet this gentleman who owned a small fast food establishment. That used to be a hamburger place not unlike McDonalds. It was located in a town that posted a sign on one billboard leaving town which read, if you’re the last person leaving town please turn out the lights. I’m reluctant to mention the town because it already has enough notoriety about being a failing http://livinghelp.com/blog/2006/12/dont-waste-food-repackage-and-eat-it.htmlDon L. Terrill