Amy Currioman

Let’s face it.  Americans are drowning in debt!  Many of my family members have been telling me that they are considering looking into some kind of Debt Settlement. Some of them are looking for Credit Card Debt Solutions; some of them are looking for help getting Free Credit Card Debt Relief.

There are a lot of services and offerings out on the Internet about how to solve our debt problems.  I’ve been very annoyed at how many of these services are trying to get the consumer to pay them for services that could be performed for free by the consumer – if they only knew how!  There is often a big cloak of mystery surrounding how to solve these issues, but the truth of the matter is that it does not have to be that complicated.  A little bit of education goes a long way!

One website that I’ve found that gives free advice, and constructive links to free advice is the getoutofdebtfastguide.com website.  I’ve been looking around on the site and so far it seems to be on the up-and-up.  I haven’t found anyplace yet that asks for money!  The only drawback that I’ve seen so far is that some of the links don’t seem to lead to active sites anymore.  But that is the exception, and not the norm.  If you are looking for some free advice about handling your debt, try their site.

I just received the reply email from the expert on the china platters – it seems that the platters that I only paid $5 for (each) are worth a total of $60!  What a surprise!  Now I don’t know if I dare use them for what I was going to use them for!  And now I have to take the time to see if I can find out the value of the third platter that I bought at the flea market!  What a hoot!  It would really be something if that was valuable too!

Backing up important work on your computer becomes more essential every week.  I make sure to back up all of my work several times a day – I’ve been in the position before where computers have died in the middle of a project and the files became corrupt because of the crash.  If I hadn’t backed up just a few hours earlier I would have lost a lot of valuable time.  And that would have been such an aggravation!

For people who can’t remember to do their own backups manually, enrolling in an Online Backup service would be a really good idea.  The budget friendly service automatically backs up your data so you don’t have to remember to do it yourself!  And if your system crashes, the data is available from their storage server on the Internet!

At the flea market that we went to I found a couple of platters that I decided to buy.  They were a pretty floral pattern and I felt it would be a good thing to have in case I have another big extended family dinner and need extra platters for serving.  I paid more money than I wanted to pay, but I knew that I was paying less than if I bought them in a department store so that was OK.  The vendor justified the prices by telling me that they were “good” platters.

When I got home I was looking at the platters again and decided to try to find out if they might be more valuable than what I paid.  Long story short, I’ve ended up emailing a collector of that brand of china and sent him photos of them.  He said he would try to find out when they were made and what their value might be.  I just want to know if they are valuable, then I should be careful with them!