Dr Copa Scrip for Success

Lately I’ve noticed that my wife has been buying a lot of small items that work with built in solar panels. For the past several years we’ve been buying and installing solar powered landscape lighting. Since money is tight we’ve only been able to do a little bit at a time, but slowly we’ve been able to light the way from the driveway’s parking areas along the walking path to the various doors that are used in the house.

More recently she has bought some lights that are mounted on the side of the house that are solar charged and motion detected, and she has had me install them beside all of the entrance doors. At first I was quite annoyed with her for spending the money on something that I thought was unnecessary, but since then there have been a number of times that I’ve gotten home after dark and found myself really glad that when I got close to the door the lights came on so I could see the door knob clearly enough to be able to find my house keys, unlock the door, and let myself in. When she offered one of those lights to me to install on the wall of the new shop building I told her that I wouldn’t need it, but now that I’ve seen what a great job it does I think I’ll take her up on the offer.

I’ve been hearing for a long time that the Postal Service is considering dropping Saturday deliveries as a way to trim their budget. I think that it is a very good idea. I don’t need to be receiving bills in the mail six days a week!  On the other hand, I would personally encourage the Post Offices to stay open on Saturdays, however, to make it easier for people who work during the business week to be able to go to the Post Office on their day off to buy stamps, pick-up packages, etc. But home delivery, I won’t miss it on Saturdays for one minute!

Most people are concerned with keeping their homes warm in the winter without going broke. We always hear such horror stories about so many people freezing to death during the harsh winter months.  There is a big push lately to help people with keeping cool during the extremely hot summer months by collecting fans and distributing them to the elderly, the disabled and the poor, which I think is a pretty cool (excuse the pun) idea.

I think we all need a good home energy audit on our homes to make sure that we are getting the best bang for our buck with all of the big money power/utility companies that are raking us all year round for our energy needs. My folks just recently contacted some home energy auditors and they came out and spent several hours inspecting their home and providing them with good recommendations and options that will hopefully save them a good amount of their money. They have since hired home insulation contractors to come and do a good amount of the suggested changes that will only take a short time to get their place up to speed.

I finally got a price to put the exhaust on the van from a dealership – it almost scared me to death – almost $800!  I went to buy the exhaust for myself at the parts store and it was $460.  So I went online to a parts store that I buy parts from, not knowing if they sell exhaust or not and purchased the whole exhaust shipped right to me for half.  I’ll be installing it myself next week and saving a butt load of cash this way.

It is amazing that we still have several of the gifts cards that we received as presents for last Christmas, so in order to go ahead and use them we have been doing a search online for various items that we have a need for. The first on the list is a very stylish black and oak dining set that we have been eyeballing for some time now and have decided to just go ahead and purchase it now. The wife has been complaining about needing bedspreads for daybeds for a few years now and has found a good deal on them so they are going to be ordered here real soon.

I have ordered (on the sly) some nice beach themed picture frames that I will hold onto to use as a nice gift for her on   Mother’s Day, which actually isn’t all that far off from now considering it is now the the middle of April and this year Mother’s Day comes around the middle of May. Hard to believe how fast this year has been flying by, it will be Christmas all over again very very soon, sooner than anyone of us would like to even think about.