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This is especially for my readers that live in Florida. I’d strongly recommend you look into purchasing flood insurance. Remember it’s not included with your standard home insurance! If you live in a low to moderate risk area then the cost is going to be extremely low and the benefits would be absolutely huge if [...]

Believe it or not your tires have an expiration date. According to this report by ABC’s 20/20 tires that are over 6 years old can be very dangerous to drive even if they’ve never been used. Many deaths on the road are thought to be a result of these expired tires.
There is a code [...]

Here’s a quick and easy official Florida DMV service to sign up for that will ensure law enforcement can quickly notify your loved ones quickly if necessary. For example if you were in an accident and they needed to reach your spouse.
Link to update contact info
Link to a quick blub from Orlando Sentinel

So a few weeks back I put a hitch on my Toyota Highlander because we decided to get a bike rack again, but this time a real one– not one of those flimsy racks that strap on the car and slide everywhere. So I followed the hitch a purchase of the Swagman XC Cross-Country 2-Bike [...]

Another find from the Getting Rich Slowly blog. This is a fun interactive graph from the NYTimes that break downs how the Average American spends their money and what the % increase/decrease has been over the year. It’s pretty interesting stuff, I spent a good 5 minutes on it doing some comparisons with what we [...]

I know it’s a bit random, but my uncle sent this to me and I think it’s valuable info/reminder for everyone. Now that it has my attention I’ve decided it’s time to go buy a fire extinguisher as we are starting to cook at home much more.
If you do buy a fire extinguisher make [...]

Well the new hot trend in advertising seems to be viral ads that don’t cost a penny to distribute. My wife pointed out this “powerful” video from Dove as she put it. While I agree with her that it’s pretty good, I personally loved the spoof someone did of it, absolutely top notch.
Here are both [...]

I think it’s safe to say we’ve ALL see this commercial, sometimes over and over and over and over again. It can make you laugh or it can drive you nuts, or maybe a bit of both. I remember the first time I saw it was during Saturday Night Live and I thought for sure [...]