whatever sizzls

Archive for September, 2007

Debt Consolidation

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

If you are like many people struggling to meet their obligations each month, debt consolidation could be just the thing to get you back on track. If you are facing bankruptcy, take the time to look into a debt consolidation plan that will work for you.

There are many online debt consolidation services who offer free online quotes. Be leery of any company who tries to get you to pay an upfront fee, before they even tell you how they can help you. Most debt consolidation companies who charge an upfront fee are more interested in seeing what they can get from you before they tell you if they can even help you out of your current situation. The company you will want to work with will offer you free advice and a quote before telling you how their fee schedule works. They are concerned with getting your finances back on track and it will show in their service.

Debt consolidation companies can only combine debts that are unsecured. This means that any secured credit cards you have will not be included in the debt consolidation. You will have to continue making your minimum payments on them during the time you are paying off your other obligations combined into your debt consolidation loan. A secured credit card is simply a prepaid credit card that you deposit money to incase you default on your payments. The secured credit card is a great way to still have all of the benefits of a credit card, and you can use it anywhere that credit cards are accepted.

If you like Very Weird News this is for You!

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Do you think you are weird? Thought so! If you like weird news, twisted strange headlines and are sick of boring straight-up financial news or other drab, boring news sites then you should take a look at www.VeryWeirdNews.com. You will find the latest and most enjoyable news stories that make you say, mmmmmm.

The Legend of Utopia Fallen

Friday, September 7th, 2007

The subject of a prehistoric advanced society has stimulated wonder among students of the unknown and perplexed academics for a score of centuries. In the modern Info-Age, New Age browsers have at their disposal a large selection of publications theorizing about the riddle of Atlantis, both non-fiction and a more fantastic read.

There are more thoughts regarding what that fantastic island was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the lost continent could be found than nearly any other Greek myth. Yet the tale of a genius race which predated our earliest records has persisted exactly for the reason that it rings so true to the quester after knowledge.

Plato originally wrote detailing a mythical continent, called Atlantis, around 355 BC. He believed the undersea continent had been in the Atlantic Ocean and met a fateful end over ten thousand years before his time.

Prolific author Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a a huge expanse, about the scale of Australia. According to the medium’s amazing vision, the Atlanteans had mastered powerful telepathic talents and tools, and gave rise to the strangely reminiscent pyramid building cultures of the ancient Egyptians and the Empires of native America. The topic is often related with reincarnation as well as telepathy, and is part of the mythos of Golden Dawn 2012 prophesies.

Conjectures about the true whereabouts of the ruins include the Indonesia to the Bermuda Triangle, although, as might be expected the most intriguing possibilities which are Mediterranean islands, particularly Crete and Malta.

The mystery may always remain concerning the true story, nonetheless there is one lesson which is hard to deny: human kind has reached great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a cycle of expansion and fall, maybe over and again, long before that which we commonly think of as being origin of culture.

New Car Shopping Tips: Part 3

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

So now you’ve found several auto dealers in your area that have the car you are interested in. This is great because it means when you start contacting the dealers you don’t feel any pressure to buy right there. If they don’t offer a good price, you can simply contact the next dealer. This is the most important part of your negotiation tactics. Be ready to walk out of any deal!

No dealer will let you walk out of the showroom until you’ve really driven the price down. So you know that these steps will assure you get a good deal. But what about paying for the car? Do you know your credit score? Do you know how much to sell your trade for? Once again, the internet helps out a bunch here. In fact, while researching and writing this article I noticed that one of the sites I landed on actually had a great resource on understanding your credit and negotiating with car dealers. I’d suggest checking out that article as it really covers the same concepts here but in a lot more detail. It will explain how to get pre-financed, how to value your current vehicle and the proper tactics for closing the deal. I noticed the site even has a useful Legal Resources section that covers Lemon Laws, Recalls and TSB’s.

Well I hope that helps you navigate the car buying process a bit better. Trust me, the steps I outlined the past few days work, and will save you tons of money!

New Car Shopping Tips Series: Part 2

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

In the first part of this series we discussed how to quickly use search engines to generate a list of auto dealers you want to get in touch with. The next step is to do a bit of research about the vehicles themselves. In our first post we took the examples of searching for a Toyota Camry in New York or a Ford Mustang in Houston. This time, lets say you want to research a 2007 Honda Accord Coupe. Do a search for that term and you’ll probably get a page full of reviews, ratings and comparisons.

Print out the information you get, and visit sites like NADA or Edmunds to research the appropriate prices for the car you are interested in. Once you’ve educated yourself well on the car you are interested in, start doing searches combining the dealerships you found in Step 1, and cross referencing to the information you just found out. Here’s a listing we found : Frederick Dodge Honda is auto dealer in Hershey PA that has a 2007 Accord Coupe. Perfect!

Now do that 3-5 times so you have several dealers in the area that have the specific car you want. On to step 3!