Archive for September 12th, 2009

Finding cheap auto insurance

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

When a young adult gets their first car, they often look for cheap auto insurance.  Let’s face it, they’ve just invested a huge chunk of their budget for the first time in their wheels, and it is no easy task fitting in all of the expenses of a car!  The maintenance and gasoline is enough to scare anyone!  So buying cheap auto insurance is a top priority for them!  Many older consumers find that bundling auto insurance with their home-owner’s insurance is a good way to save money on both types of insurance, but the younger adults often don’t have the need for home-owner’s insurance yet! 

One of the scary things about getting auto insurance is not really knowing how much insurance you need to get.  You don’t want to pay for more coverage than you need, but then again you don’t want to be under-insured either.  If you are involved in a car accident you really do need to be able to get your car fixed or replaced without it causing an undue hardship.  And with medical costs as high as they are, you need to get plenty of liability and under-insured motorist coverage as well!  You don’t want to end up on the injured list and have no way to pay for the medical bills that will wrack up quicker than you can say “lickity split!”

I was using a website search engine today to help my nephew find auto insurance for his new car, and found an easy one to use at the cheap-autoinsurance.com website.  That site was easy to use; we started out typing in the zip code of the town where my nephew lives and it took us to a page that showed several insurance providers that are known to give good prices for that town.  Then it gave us the option to apply on line for free and instant insurance quotes.  I like sites like that!

Got my MP3 player

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Well, I was starting to wonder if my MP3 player was ever going to arrive! It certainly had been plenty of time to arrive! Then it dawned on me to look on the front porch to see if perhaps it was delivered and simply left on the porch without me hearing the doorbell ring. Yup, there it was! I was so excited! I brought it into the house and ripped the package open just like it was Christmas! Reading the instructions was pretty confusing, I have to admit it. And the claim that the touch pads only required a “light touch” – well, that just isn’t true! I have to touch and touch and touch harder and harder. I wonder if I got a defective one? And the volume of the thing is pretty puny; I have turned the volume up as loud as it will go and it just doesn’t seem to perform as loud as I had hoped. I wonder if that is a defect as well! And loading songs onto it was a pain in the neck! I hope it gets easier with use!