WHAT A PROFIT!

This guest post from Lenny Mcknight

I was checking my eBay auctions all day at work today using our Long Island T1 connection. Usually, I don’t do personal things and even refrain from checking my personal e-mail while I am at work, but today I was just too excited that I had to get on my eBay account. I listed a dress for sale that I picked up at an estate sale for five dollars. When I got it home, it was too big for me, so I decided that I would list it on-line. It turns out that the dress was a Cecil Chapman gown ( a pretty famous designer). I didn’t know until I did some research when my auction started edging higher and higher who Cecil Chapman was. He dressed the likes of Audrey Hepburn and Marylin Monroe back in the day. The auction really caught my attention when it tipped one hundred dollars. I was expecting like twenty bucks max. I felt like everyt ime I checked the auction it was just inching up and up. I got so excited that I had to get my boss ( who appreciates fashion) to see what I had come across. She was excited and wanted me to keep checking. It finally sold for 225! What a profit!

NORDIC SWEATER

Thanks for the guest post by Jo Levy

I have been combing Ebay using my bellingham clear internet connection and other on-line auction and vintage sites, trying to find an awesome knit Nordic sweater. I decided that I wanted one after our last ski trip. I used to think that they were just for older women, but now, I think that I am at the age that I really like them! All of the sweaters that I saw in the stores that I liked were upwards of three hundred dollars. They were all fine wool and beautifully knit. I have found a few that I am interested in on Ebay, but you really never know how they are going to fit. The ones that I really liked didn’t have a return policy, so I was still without an awesome Nordic sweater until yesterday. I decided to stop by our Goodwill Thrift Store to just see what they had. I was combing through the women’s racks, and I couldn’t believe my eyes! I found an awesome Nordic sweater that was one hundred percent alpaca, hand knit, a great pattern, and my favorite color, light pink!

Back to the Dorms?

Guest post by Gerard Mcdaniel

I have been surprised that new york energy rates are much cheaper than I expected them to be. I relocated to Manhattan last spring because I was starting a doctoral program at NYU in the fall. I had always dreamed about living in the Big Apple. I love it that I am finally here and studying what I love. I knew that New York City was going to be expensive, but I really did not estimate correctly just how expensive it was going to be. I have already plowed through my savings and am living paycheck to paycheck. Luckily, I have an assistantship in my program and get a stipened and tuition waver from the school. Everything in New York is more expensive, except for my power bill! I do need to take into account that my NYC apartment is so small that it is probably less expensive to heat! If I am really out of money by December. I may have to leave my small apartment and move into an even smaller NYU dorm. I hope that won’t be the case!

Sports Addiction

Post contributed by Noah Schmidt.

My husband and I are both so addicted to watching Sports on Direct TV. We like all different kinds of sports, so we watch different sports channels all the time. My favorite Directv feature is definitely the NFL Sunday Ticket. I am a huge NFL fan so it’s perfect for me. We are kind of upset that it looks like there isn’t going to be an NBA season this year. Right now we aren’t that sad yet because both NFL and NCAA football are both still on. I’m sure we’ll really start to feel the void once the football ends. We just love having all of these sports channels at our fingertips. Since we have such great accessibility to sports games, our house has become the hangout for our group of friends. It’s nice that everyone comes to us and that we get to see out friends so often without spending loads of money watching our games at a bar. I don’t have any complaints at all about our sports package. It is definitely much better now than when we had cable.

Enjoying Picking Out Decor for a Dorm Room

Guest post written by Jessica Hewitt

One of the things that I really wanted to make sure went smoothly for my daughter in her transition from high school to college is her dorm room decor. You spend so much time in your dorm room, whether you're hanging out with friends or studying, but sometimes it can be really tough living with a roommate for the first time. Luckily for my daughter, her roommate is one of her friends from high school so she doesn't have to worry about if she'll like her new roommate or not.

I've been helping them track down some cute decorations for them to use in the dorm room before we go and move them in. I was online looking up some ideas for storage for their room when I ran across the website http://CLEARWIRELESSinternet.com. After I looked through it a little bit, I decided to change over our home internet access to that provider.

We've come up with some really great dorm room decorations, like these vintage looking sheets that I sewed into curtains for them, along with some hooks from an antique store that they're going to use to hold them back when they want light in their room. I think that they're going to make a great roommate pair.

On Leave

This guest post from Doris Dillon

When I moved in to my own place last year I wasn't scared at first. I think it's just the adrenaline rush of owning my own home, but for those first few weeks I didn't think twice about the fact that I lived in the house all by myself. That all changed when I heard about a break-in only four houses down from mine. I started worrying about what would happen if something like that were to happen at my house in the middle of the night. The first thing I did was get a dog, a big, big dog. That was kind of twofold though because I had always wanted a dog in this was the perfect excuse for me to get one. And now I have a reason to utilize the big backyard! After that I spent some time online at www.allhomeSECURITY.com researching different security systems that the made sense for my type of house. Now I feel much better about staying here all alone and I finally feel like a real homeowner!