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How To Pay Your Bills When You Are Broke * Written by: Oliver J Kingsley It seems like your bills keep getting bigger and bigger and you are barely getting to the next paycheck. Maybe you can't even pay all of your bills anymore. What can you do to get bills under control so you have more money available? The easiest way to get started turning your financial situation around is to quickly cut spending to free up some cash. Everyone has some spending they can cut and then use that money to pay down bills. At first, you may think that you don't have any "extra" spending, but almost everyone has optional expenses they can cut to get more cash right away. You have to decide it is worth some effort and sacrifice to find some things you can live without and break some spending habits you have developed. Here are 10 ways to cut expenses quickly to get cash to pay bills: Cut cable TV / satellite TV- most people could save...

-- Quote of the Day --  "He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."  ~ Sydney Smith  -- Positive News --  Some interesting numbers for you… 90% of large Japanese cities have instigated plastic bag and packaging recycling and reduction programs. Methods for achieving this vary from region to region but tend to include the discontinuation of offering plastic bags, creating cooperation between shop owners and increasing benefits to consumers such as coupons, local currencies, gifts, discounts, etc. The country has been able to reach a 91% collection rate for plastic bags and packaging as well. According to a 2013 survey, 41% of the respondents bring their own bags and don’t accept retailer bags. However that means that 59% still consume single use bags and the reasons offered were convenience,...

 -- Quote of the Day --  “Negativity is a waste of energy.” ~ unknown   Mass Text Messaging: Perfect for After the Holidays!   * Written by : Andrew Lisa - a freelance marketing writer. He covers SEO and mobile marketing. Even though it's nearly 25 years old, text messaging remains the most direct, most effective and most intimate medium for marketers. Unlike emails, users view 98 percent of texts within just a few minutes. The start of the new year – after the roar of holidays sales have died down – seem to have been built with text marketing in mind. Here are some ways to take advantage of mass text messaging when the holidays have passed. Offer A Discount As discussed in the article " 4 Great Ways to Use Bulk Text Messaging for the Holidays ," shoppers, of course, are looking for deals after they've racked up huge credit card bills over the holidays. The redemption rate of text messa...

 -- Quote of the Day --  "Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed,  one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people."   ~ Garrison Keillor -- Positive News --    Kudos to Sony Corporation who are now going to use SORPLAS (sustainable oriented recycled plastic that contains up to 99% recycled material) for their products. Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, their radio program, blog, and more at: http://brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, clicking those social networking buttons, or visiting the Brummet's Store - and help raise funds for charity as well!

-- Quote of the Day --  "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."  ~ John F. Kennedy Love All Of You *Written by: Dr. Kate Siner - an internationally recognized author, speaker and mentor who advocates for a world that cares more - starting with you. http://www.katesiner.com    Recently, while being interviewed for network television I was asked if people are put off by my tattoos. I said that my work is about being yourself and living fully. So, whether people like them or not they at least show I am walking my talk! The world is constantly going to give us feedback about ourselves, some of which is bound to not be positive. One of the things that I see happen to my clients is that they sometimes get caught up in the idea that since they want to improve themselves that means there is something w...

 -- Reuse : Holiday Cards -- I was really impressed this year how many folks I've seen reusing old holiday cards in a variety of ways. "Holiday cards" can apply to baby showers, valentines, xmas, etc. So most of you already know that we have a good sized section in our Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green book series that talks about greening celebrations and holidays, reusing of packaging and wrapping and cards and envelopes, etc. so I'm not going to repeat any of that here right now. For those of you interested in this just go to our Store page of our website.  Anyway I thought I'd discuss this concept a little today since the xmas holiday is closing and people are putting away their card displays. Someone gave us a jar of brownie mix this year - now the dry ingredients were layered to look really quite decorative and the lid was topped with a circle of festive cloth and a ribbon. The instructions were on the back of a holiday card... they had cut of ...

 -- Back --  Hey everyone - I'm back. I hope you had a chance to browse our archives both here on the blog and the radio show. As you know I took some time to just be, to recover and refresh. Whew! We sure got hit hard by the super-flu bug that was going around that decided to settle down deep in my lungs for weeks. Dave and I are feeling better now and with the holidays over we are ready to get going again on our home business - Brummet Media Group.   I may not be posting here every-single-day on this blog - due to working on another manuscript and finishing the garage project (we enclosed the open carport, built walls, insulated them and are now doing the interior drywall work). The garage project has already resulted in great savings - with more than 3/4 of the new walls done (insulated, plastic covered, boarded and house wrapped) we found that when cold days of -10˚C our garage was only 0˚. So that is quite the savings... especially when you factor in that the ...