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Insurance Claim Involving Snowplow Finally Resolved

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The Summer weather is finally here, something that most of us have been wishing for since the very beginning of the Winter weather season. One couple in Illinois, however, were still thinking about a snowplow. An insurance claim filed last winter has gone unresolved from then, until now. Imagine having to wait around four months after filing an insurance claim before any action was taken towards repairing the damage to your car. That is exactly what happened for Stephanie Spiewak, and her husband, from Mount Prospect, Illinois. They have been trying to get their 1996 Cutlas Supreme fixed since February … Continue reading →

Parents Prepare for Snowmaggedon

The Southeast is still trying to dig out from the snow that paralyzed major cities and left travelers stranded from Georgia to North Carolina, and now the Northeast is preparing for another major winter storm that is set to clobber the region over the next 48 hours. If you are a parent of a school-age child, you are likely bracing for more than just a few hours of shoveling. Instead, you will have to adjust your work schedule to accommodate one, two, or possibly, three snow days. For many moms and dads, the thought of enduring a round of cabin … Continue reading →

Frugal Tips for Surviving Snowstorms

Fortunately (or unfortunately)for me, I no longer live in blizzard central where I grew up and spent the first decade of my adult life. Still, the news of blizzards in the northeast has me feeling a bit nostalgic. It also has me thinking of all of the frugal things that my parents did during snow storms and blizzards to keep us kids warm, happy, and fed. Hang blankets for extra warmth: Growing up, our homes were fueled with oil. During snowstorms, the temperatures would drop causing us to run out of oil quicker. To slow down the consumption of heating … Continue reading →

Snow Worries

Maybe it’s the severe frostbite I sustained standing outside in minus 80-degree windchills covering a triple murder as a TV reporter that spoiled my taste for winter and all its wonder. Or perhaps it’s the fact that I was born and raised in balmy Hilo, Hawaii, that prevents me from truly embracing snow and bitter cold. Regardless of my inability to tolerate all that Old Man Winter hurls at us here in the frozen tundra, I try very hard not to negatively influence my young daughter’s view on the coldest season of the year, which in Wisconsin, happens to last … Continue reading →

Which Debt Reduction Strategy is Right for You?

You are committed to doing whatever it takes to get out of debt and remove financial worries from your life. You see a promising future, filled not with stacks of bills or collection calls, but a paid-off home and enough liquid assets to be able to enjoy life and to provide a future for your children. What a wonderful goal and one that could come true with some good choices and perseverance. Gaining financial freedom first starts with getting out of debt, with forming your own debt reduction plan that contains solid and achievable goals. It is do it yourself … Continue reading →

Unfortunate Inheritance

I stink at math. It’s no secret. In fact, I’ve long made a habit of prefacing conversations with, “I’m not good with numbers” or “Math was never my strong suit.” Unfortunately, it seems I’ve made those comments in front of my mini me enough that she’s begun repeating them. Even worse, she’s now using them as an excuse for her poor math scores. Like mother, like daughter… in a bad way. If there is a bright side to my mistake, it’s that I am cognizant of what I’ve done and I’m now working hard to remedy it. For starters, I … Continue reading →

Surviving Cabin Fever

That’s the view from my kitchen window. Okay, not really. Minus the whale and it comes pretty darn close. Winter in Wisconsin. Enough said. Still, weather experts keep harping on the fact that we’ve had a mild winter thus far. Of course, our neck of the woods often experiences wind chills in the -20 to -30 degree range (take note of the minus signs), so I suppose single digits, teens and 20s above zero is a virtual heat wave. But, I’m from Hawaii, so everything is relative. Regardless, when you have kids, winter can be a real drag even if … Continue reading →

Old Man Winter vs. Tired Mama

We’re only a month into winter and I’m already counting the days until summer. Actually, I will settle for any season free of snow, ice, and sub-zero wind chills. In most parts of the world that would be spring, but I reside in Wisconsin, where it can (and often does) snow in June. Did I mention the state’s unofficial motto is: “Welcome to the land of two seasons: winter and construction.” It would be funny if it were not the cold, hard truth. I complained a lot about living in the Frozen Tundra when I was single. Partly, because I … Continue reading →

What Scripture Says About “Training Up a Child”

One of the most famous biblical passages on parenting has been presented as a good-news-bad-news type of pronouncement: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). It’s good news because there is a concreteness to it, an implied promise — if A, then B. If you do it right, she’s in. Which leads to the bad news part: If you do it wrong, he’s out. And every Christian parent, at some point, worries and stresses over doing it wrong. Perhaps we’ve focused on the wrong … Continue reading →

No More Charred Children

I’m no medical expert, but when I see sunscreen containers plastered with labels that read, SPF 80, 90 or 100, my eyeballs get a workout, rolling to the depths of their sockets. I grew up in Hawaii in an age when sunscreen was packaged as beach umbrellas and large palm fronds. Consequently, I have learned the hard (and expensive) way that there is a time and place for sunscreen, even when you live near the Frozen Tundra. Basically, I got scorched as a kid enough times to warrant biopsies and several crash courses in sun protection from trained medical professionals. … Continue reading →