March 31, 2010

Impressing The Bride With A Phoenix Dance Band

The bride that just hired me to help her organize her wedding is really worried about finding a good Phoenix dance band to play at her reception. She seems to think that it really is the most important part of the whole day. I usually work with brides who think that the dress, the cake or the food is the most important thing but not this one.

I informed her that I have used an Arizona wedding reception band before that she might like, so she is going to come in next week and listen to them. I am so glad that the Arizona wedding reception band that I am talking about does not mind coming in and setting up, just to play for a little bit and be judged by people. I have hired them probably seven or eight times before and every time, the people that they are playing for love them.

I found this band on the internet, when I was looking for a Phoenix dance band to play for one of my client’s daughter’s sweet sixteen parties. I needed something new and fresh and they are definitely young and fresh sounding. All of the kids at the party thought that they were great.

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March 23, 2010

Could Not Buy Girls Footie Pajamas

The footie pajamas that I bought for my daughter, did not come from the girls pajamas section of the store, they came from the boys section. They only had pretty pink flowery looking ones in the girls pajamas section and my daughter does not like anything pink and frilly. In fact, she wears a lot of boys clothes, that are more unisex.

When she told me that she would really like to have footie pajamas, I knew that we were going to run into problems. I first started my search online, but could not find anything that was not too girly, or too boyish. All the boys pajamas had trucks, trains and spaceships on them and those were just not going to work. I decided to head over to the outlet mall that was in the next town and check out some of those stores.

I could not believe all the nice colored boys footie pajamas that they had at the first kids stores that I stopped into, at the outlet mall. They were just simple in green, blue and even some that were red. My daughter was thrilled with them and wears them every night. I am wondering how long the whole hating pink and frilly things is going to last.

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March 22, 2010

Checking Cleaning And Food Service Supplies Pricing

My wife was thinking of starting up a restaurant in the little town that we just moved to. I knew that she was a great cook and that she would put everything she had into making it a success. The amount of money that it would take to get it going was something that we had to explore.

We sat down with a list of necessities to opening up her restaurant and a computer and started pricing everything. I knew that cleaning supplies would be a big thing that we would have to have, not only for the inside but also the outside of the building too. My wife was pricing food service supplies and it looked like all of that stuff was going to be very affordable. Picking just one vendor to get all of those things from was not as easy as it sounds.

It seemed that if one company was lower priced on the cleaning supplies then they were higher on the food service supplies and vice versa. Then, we just happened to stumble upon a site that seemed to have everything that we needed including very affordable prices. It looks like my wife will be opening up a new restaurant very soon.

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March 16, 2010

Cannot Afford Life Insurance Rates

I have been on the fence about getting life insurance now, for about two years. I have seen the devastation of not having life insurance, first hand but not being able to come up with extra money to pay for it makes it difficult. My best friend’s parents were killed in an automobile accident and my friend was left to take care of the funeral and all their debt. She ended up having to sell the house that she grew up in and it still did not cover everything. I requested life insurance rates, very shortly after seeing this happen. When they came in, I was so sad to see that I really could not afford to buy any life insurance at this time.

I put the life insurance rates away in a drawer, thinking that maybe somewhere down the road, I would be making more money and be able to afford it then. I knew that having no medical exam life insurance would defiantly not work, since it was a little higher than the policies where you are examined by a physician to make sure that you are healthy.

I threw away all the quotes that were for no medical exam life insurance and kept all the rest. I am not sure how I will get to the physical, while taking off time from work, losing money from a job that does not pay well enough anyway, to afford life insurance.

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March 1, 2010

Wonder If Dentists Are Selling Old Gold Fillings

If there are any dentists who have been saving up those gold fillings from when they fall out of their patients mouths, I bet that they are cashing in on them about now. Just think, they charged these people money to put them in, and then when they fell out they probably got charged for having a new one put in. The dentist takes the old one and throws them in a drawer and ten years later is selling old gold fillings and getting some more money for the whole deal.

I wonder if selling old gold fillings has been around for years, but now that the gold prices have spiked it might be more popular. I thought about selling gold class rings that I bought at a garage sale, since they are so heavy. Those rings coupled with all the old knotted up gold necklaces that I have, should bring in a little bit of money.

I still want to know if I can go back to my dentist from when I was a kid and collect that filling that fell out and he replaced. I remember it being a big one in one of my molars, so it might be worth a few dollars. I told my sister about the whole selling gold craze and she did not know but she is going to go through her jewelry box tonight. She never had any cavities when we were growing up, so she does not care about my gold filling story.

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