MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews

Guest written by our friend Mason Abbott

Saving money has always been really high on my priority list but since we bought this new house it has skyrocketed it to the top. I love this place but we’re going to become house poor if we’re not careful so I try everything I can think of to make sure we’re saving enough and keeping track of what we’re spending. I do research in my spare time on things like texas electricity providers and better cable rates and which grocery stores are having sales but at the end of the day it’s all about making sure you’ve got a reliable household budget and watching it like a hawk. I also like to coupon but I’m definitely not one of those crazy coupon ladiesyou see on TV that have whole binders and basements full of coupons and the goods they need. I love saving us money but it’s all going into a kids’ college account that they’ll need later on. I wish I had more money to give them but I’m doing what I can!

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Family-Home, Gadgets-Technology | Tags: | January 17, 2012

As I can recall, I love wearing jeans ever since. Even though my mother always bought me dresses when I was young, but then, I love wearing jeans.  This is because it’s comfortable and I can just do anything easily.

Anyway, now that I am mature enough to just buy anything that I want, I am a frequent jeans buyer.  My reason for this is, I can act lady like if I want to or I can act boyishly whenever I will wear my favorite jeans. And oh, speaking of favorites, I do love NYDJ. Just in case, the meaning of NYDJ is “Not Your Daughter’s Jeans” collections. The styles that I love buying with NYDJ brand are the boot leg styles, boot cut, and the straight leg jeans. And the colors that I love will always be the brown, the blue, and the black because it will always be perfect with whatever tops and whatever accessories that I will be wearing. Hope it will be soon that I will be able to buy new additional NYDJ so that I can add few pieces in my collection!

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Clothes-Accessorites | Tags: jeans, not your daughter's jeans | January 17, 2012

As I am used of hearing commands from my husband and two of my driving instructors, I hope I will not be too hesitant in driving alone. Mostly, at the intersection, I will always wait until I will hear go or pull a little bit to go left or right. Today, I am excited to test my DL and see if I can drive at the road safely. I also need to do lots of groceries for the family. Hope I can drive alone safely without just staring at the stop lights. He-he!

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Personal | Tags: | January 4, 2012

Guest post written by my buddy Brian Workman

My husband has got to be the nicest man on the planet and he’s really gone above and beyond this year taking care of me. I love him to death and at the end of the day I think it’s really special the way we work together as a team so I wanted to get him something great for Christmas this year. He loves TV and he’s been really wanting to watch Dexter which is on one of those premium channels so I got Direct TV Garland for the house. They’re not coming to set it up until next week and boy is he going to be surprised! I lost my job last year and he really supported me through finding another one in this economy. Times are tough but at the end of the day knowing he has my back makes it all easier…he’s the best man I’ve ever known and he deserves all the happiness in the world if you ask me. I’m going to do my best to make that happen!

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Entertainment | Tags: | December 18, 2011

One of the usual places that I will visit whenever I will be out with my kids is doctor office for pediatrician or allergist appointments. Mostly, I will just ride a taxi since I still don’t have my license to drive. It’s good that my eldest doesn’t need a car seat and it’s just my new born who needs a seat.

Anyway, with my recent allergist’s visit to check the food allergies of my eldest kid, I was thankful that the nurse who helped my kid did a great job with the skin testing. She did her best so that my kid will behave despite of the pain and the itchiness of the skin tests. At any rate, she looked so pretty with her custom made scrubs. After the skin testing, I said to her that I was thankful with her patience of assisting my kid and that she looked so lovely with her uniform. She answered thank you and your welcome in which she said that she ordered her uniform online. Hmmm, I bet she ordered it at this site: http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/Original-Scrubs/. Hope to see her again next year for the annual skin testing of my eldest child.

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Family-Home, Health-Fitness | Tags: custom made scrubs | November 25, 2011

One of my main concerns in my home is the water damage that’s visible on the ceiling, the side trimmings, and the floor in my bedroom. And I think I need to have the services from the well-known company to do some repair water damaged ceiling Austin. There are lots of companies that I’ve read across the internet but there’s one that amazed me a lot. And that is the http://www.thesteamteam.com.

I think, I will be keeping in touch with them and ask them if they can do some repairs for my bedroom’s ceiling and all the water damages in there. I just can’t bear with having some molds and everything because this is not good for my health. Repairing my ceiling and some parts of my home is a bit cheaper compared to getting sick with all these molds and water damages. I need to act on this as soon as possible and hope these can be fixed right before the winter will sets in. Also, I need to fix my bedrooms insulation and all since I’ve seen some cracks which resulted for my heater to keep on functioning all the time. And this is going to be one of my projects on or before December of this year!

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Family-Home, Home Improvement | Tags: | November 20, 2011

I was so depressed for the past days and it resulted that I let go most of the advertisers’ offers. After doing that thing, it’s like I felt more depressed thinking that I will not be earning something for this week from those offers that should be mine. But I can’t turn back things the way I want to. Past belongs to the past. What I am going to do today is to be good and to make good with the hope that everything will be okay.

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Personal | Tags: | November 17, 2011

My friend told me that it’s good if I will try using Vivexin. She said that it will always help me with my wrinkles, eye bags, and dark circles around my eyes. And so right now, I am searching on where I can buy it in a price that’s within my budget. Hope to find a good online deal on this beauty product.

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Health, Health-Fitness | Tags: | November 7, 2011

What you will do today, will always affect your life tomorrow. As much as possible, it is advisable that you will only make the most relevant choices and the most positive decisions in life so that when tomorrow comes, your life will somehow be positive and filled with good things. Just like when it comes to investing on something. Deciding on investing on things on which the value will always appreciate as time goes by will always be saving something valuable for future use.

One of the things that are worth investing is to buy silver bullion and gold. As you know already that these metals are precious and prices will be double and or even tripled in years to come. When you will take a look at silver price today, and what if you will purchase or invest on it, surely, it’s always worth your money. And, much more, when you will invest on any form of gold (gold bullion, jewelry, gold coins, etc.), your money will surely grow in the near future.

Right now, it is your decision and it is your choice of buying things that will fascinate you but with value that will depreciate OR you will invest on precious things that will surely double or triple your money tomorrow or in the coming years. Listening to advises is always good but without putting it into action is just a waste of time and waste of resources. So, hope that when you will spend your money on material things, it will always create satisfaction in your part not just for the present time, but, for your future and for your family’s future as well. Come to think of it that when you will invest on gold and silver, this will be a good inheritance for your kids and families.

My Own Policy

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Business, Clothes-Accessorites, Personal | Tags: gold, silver bullion | November 7, 2011

Be humble in whatever you do. Don’t boast on anything since everything in this life is just borrowed and temporary. Be proud of whatever good achievements and good works. Appreciate whatever small things that you have in your life right now because someday you will know that small things are the ingredients why you are blessed with wealth and richness in life.

MB's Tips, Thoughs, & Reviews - Personal | Tags: | November 7, 2011