In my opinion, people should be diligent about making sure that they have enough insurance, both for their homes and the vehicles.  These are big ticket items that would devastate someone financially if something bad happened to them and the owners could not afford to fix them up.  However, in this economy, people need to pay careful attention to what insurance they are buying; they want to make sure to get the best value for their money!

With that in mind, I think it is wonderful that you can get Online Instant Insurance Quotes to help you find out what is available “out there” without having to make a lot of phone calls.  I love how you can get Auto Insurance Quotes and Home Insurance Quotes with just a few clicks of the mouse and keyboard!  You can get all of the information you need in the comfort of your own home!  Isn’t technology wonderful?

I have a very old floor lamp that I was given by a dear aunt. She tells me that she bought it over thirty years ago. I love it dearly, but it has finally given up the ghost. The socket died, and I decided it was appropriate to rewire the entire thing because the plug was the old fashioned kind that just was not as safe as the newer ones. So I went to the hardware store and bought what I needed to rewire the lamp. It took a couple of hours to take it all apart and rewire it, but I did it myself and it turned out fine. I had called an electrician and asked him how much he would charge to re-wire it and he had told me it would cost over $100! The rewiring supplies cost me less than $20, so I’m thrilled that I saved $80 by re-wiring it myself! And I’m thrilled that I kept the lamp from going to the junkyard, so I did my part to save the environment today!

Seth tod me that he has found a fun way to get involved in charity fundraising for his favorite charity.  He has a couple of different non profit charity organizations that he is very fond of.  One being the Locks of Love charity because one of his nieces has cancer and has lost her hair.

The Locks of Love charity takes donated hair and turns them into wigs to give to children who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments.  Anyway, Seth has found a program that encourages donation to charity by getting involved in making and fulfilling dares and collecting money from pledges from other people related to the dares.  The participants can pick the charity of their choice for the fundraising efforts.  The details of this program can be found at the daredealer.com website.

I guess I just wasn’t paying attention to the calendar because I was surprised yesterday to see so many people with ash marks on their heads today.  Everywhere I went I saw a lot of people with black smudges on their foreheads.  I never really understood what Ash Wednesday was about, the religious significance of it, why it’s done, pretty much anything about it.  I remember as a kid I asked my parents about it and they just told me “that’s something the Catholics do on Ash Wednesday.’  And then I said “oh” and left it at that.  I’ve thought about asking someone who has ashes on their forehead about it, but did not want to seem stupid.  I guess I’ll google it!

I was given a crock pot today by my sister Amy. She had just bought a new one, and thought I might like to have her old one. Paula was thrilled to get the crock pot, too! We’ve never cooked in a crock pot before! Amy gave us the cook book that came with the crock pot, but it doesn’t really have very many recipes in it. Only a few of them sound like anything we’d like to try.

Paula decided we should try to find some crock pot recipes online, so we used a new search engine called Daymix.com that Amy told us to try to find the recipes. The search experience resulted in a few leads on some good places to get crock pot recipes, and it referred us to a few blogs about cooking in a crock pot. One of the blogs wrote about converting recipes from oven to crock pot and from crock pot to oven, which I thought was really helpful!