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	<title>Financial &amp; Travel Musings</title>
	
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		<title>Aren’t glasses getting cheaper?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be honest I sort-of expected that glasses would be one of those things that would continually get more expensive. After all, there seems to be a whole lot of manual labour involved in getting them.
However, discount prescription glasses are available not only online but in the high street too. To give you some idea [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be honest I sort-of expected that glasses would be one of those things that would continually get more expensive. After all, there seems to be a whole lot of manual labour involved in getting them.</p>
<p>However, <a href="http://lensesrx.com">discount prescription glasses</a> are available not only online but in the high street too. To give you some idea of just how much the prices have dropped, consider that my Mum&#8217;s nice, but not designer, glasses from 15 years or so back cost £150. Even designer glasses come for half that these days. Gone too are the cheapo NHS children&#8217;s styles and in their place are freebie glasses for the kids but in quite modern designs.</p>
<p>The prices have dropped so much that I even picked up a pair for myself for those days when I can&#8217;t be bothered with the contact lenses (which, surprisingly, aren&#8217;t any cheaper): all of £10!</p>
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		<title>Lesser used tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with clearing out your house and garage is that you end up throwing out a whole heap of things that you&#8217;ll almost certainly need very soon afterwards but which you&#8217;ve not used for years.
Take clamps for instance or rather different sized ones. There will be a size or perhaps a small number of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem with clearing out your house and garage is that you end up throwing out a whole heap of things that you&#8217;ll almost certainly need very soon afterwards but which you&#8217;ve not used for years.</p>
<p>Take <a href="http://www.reidsupply.com/Results.aspx?pid=10021777">clamps</a> for instance or rather different sized ones. There will be a size or perhaps a small number of sizes which you use quite regularly but others which you used once for a job many years ago and figure that you&#8217;ll never ever use them again so they get dumped. Likewise for those screws for that long finished cabinet that you&#8217;re &#8220;never&#8221; gonna use again along with a whole host of other stuff.</p>
<p>Of course, the snag is that if you <em>do</em> keep all the stuff, there&#8217;s no chance whatsoever of you finding it when you actually do need it!</p>
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		<title>Forgetting about old insurance policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with life insurance policies is that they generally run for a very long time indeed.
Consider my Dad who died a couple of years ago. He had policies dating back to the 1930s that we know of and probably a number of others that we don&#8217;t know of.
Although life insurance is one of those [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem with <a href="http://www.lifeinsurancequotes.com/">life insurance</a> policies is that they generally run for a very long time indeed.</p>
<p>Consider my Dad who died a couple of years ago. He had policies dating back to the 1930s that we know of and probably a number of others that we don&#8217;t know of.</p>
<p>Although life insurance is one of those &#8220;good things&#8221; that you know you should have, the snag is that having such policies means a commitment to pay them for a rather long time and to keep the original policy documents just as long. I&#8217;m sure there are loads of people out there who have a number of long since forgotten about policies as over such a long time you&#8217;ve moved house a few times and the insurance company itself has probably been taken over a few times as well.</p>
<p>Is it worthwhile spending time on tracking them down? Well, it depends. Most of the 1930s era policies were written in the days when one assumed that one&#8217;s children would die and moreover in a time when money was worth more. Typically, &#8220;penny policies&#8221; are commonly found and even after such a long time they&#8217;re not worth more than a couple of hundred pounds. Not money you&#8217;d want to throw away obviously but not worth losing sleep over either.</p>
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		<title>Souping up your internet presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might think that you&#8217;d need to employ some highly paid computer consultant to soup up your online profile but these days that&#8217;s simply not the case.
For one thing you need to remember that a consultant may well come with a wealth of experience behind them but on the other hand they&#8217;re only &#8220;yours&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You might think that you&#8217;d need to employ some highly paid computer consultant to soup up your online profile but these days that&#8217;s simply not the case.</p>
<p>For one thing you need to remember that a consultant may well come with a wealth of experience behind them but on the other hand they&#8217;re only &#8220;yours&#8221; for a fairly short period of time. The DIY approach means that you get to gain experience with an <a href="http://www.freeseotool.net/">seo tool</a> yourself. Sounds complicated? Sure, it <em>sounds</em> complicated but that doesn&#8217;t mean that it <em>is</em> complicated as many of these tools are very, very easy to use.</p>
<p>Where you&#8217;ll generally need to sit back and do some thinking is with the results of these tools running over your site. That said, even here it&#8217;s a lot easier than it used to be and definitely isn&#8217;t something to be scared of.</p>
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		<title>Kicking your heels at the moment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the economy being in the doldrums at the moment a lot of people are in a position to look at the qualifications with a view to improving them.
One of the problems in doing that is that you really don&#8217;t want to be starting off on a major new qualification and then have to abandon [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the economy being in the doldrums at the moment a lot of people are in a position to look at the qualifications with a view to improving them.</p>
<p>One of the problems in doing that is that you really don&#8217;t want to be starting off on a major new qualification and then have to abandon it when you get that job you were hoping for. However, all is not lost as there are lots of <a href="http://www.bestonlinedegrees.org/">accredited online degrees</a> out there at the moment.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t think that you need to limit yourself to also-ran universities either. Many of the big names offer a range of online courses these days in all sorts of fields and at various levels.</p>
<p>The good point about all of these is that should you manage to land that ideal job &#8220;too soon&#8221; you can continue on with your self-improvement programme.</p>
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		<title>Trouble sleeping?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure that with all the economic woes that surround us these days there&#8217;s a whole heap of people out there who have trouble sleeping.
The snag is that as with the economic crisis the sleep problems can seem to go on for quite a while. That being so it&#8217;s not such a good idea to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure that with all the economic woes that surround us these days there&#8217;s a whole heap of people out there who have trouble sleeping.</p>
<p>The snag is that as with the economic crisis the sleep problems can seem to go on for quite a while. That being so it&#8217;s not such a good idea to be relying long term on artificial drugs and perhaps <a href="http://www.sleepingaidreviews.net/">natural sleep aids</a> would be a better way to look.</p>
<p>Much better though is to try and tackle the problems that are causing your lack of sleep. Not always easy for sure but you should at least try.</p>
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		<title>Sorting out the car insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think that two cars would only mean twice the complications with the car insurance but it generally seems that it&#8217;s more like ten times the hassle, at least for us.
To begin with we&#8217;ve the French car which needs insured and indeed imported properly to here. You&#8217;d think that would be a doddle these days [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;d think that two cars would only mean twice the complications with the <a href="http://www.carseek.com/insurance/">car insurance</a> but it generally seems that it&#8217;s more like ten times the hassle, at least for us.</p>
<p>To begin with we&#8217;ve the French car which needs insured and indeed imported properly to here. You&#8217;d think that would be a doddle these days with all the common European laws and the importing is a fairly simple (if expensive) thing to do. Snag is that our particular car model was never sold here so the insurance for it is really serious cash.</p>
<p>Next up is a change in the insurance of the other car which is going to be a bit of hassle as transferring over our insurance record from France isn&#8217;t nearly so simple as you&#8217;d expect that it should be.</p>
<p>Oh well, better get going on it I suppose.</p>
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		<title>Sorting out that annoying acne</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acne seems to arise at the worst possible times for teenagers, doesn&#8217;t it? There&#8217;s so much going on in their lives that looking into acne remedies is really something that they could do without.
Of course it&#8217;s a combination of those things that are going on in their lives that causes the acne problem in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acne seems to arise at the worst possible times for teenagers, doesn&#8217;t it? There&#8217;s so much going on in their lives that looking into <a href="http://www.bestacneremedies.net/">acne remedies</a> is really something that they could do without.</p>
<p>Of course it&#8217;s a combination of those things that are going on in their lives that causes the acne problem in the first place. Not that they find that much compensation really.</p>
<p>Still, it is an exciting time of life to look back on, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>Eating more for your baby</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, most of the time you won&#8217;t need to eat more as such or at least not so much as you&#8217;ll actually notice for those who eat normally.
What&#8217;s eating normally though? Well, obviously being on a diet of any kind doesn&#8217;t count as eating normally though it does depend on how extreme your diet regime [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, most of the time you won&#8217;t need to eat more as such or at least not so much as you&#8217;ll actually notice for those who eat normally.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s eating normally though? Well, obviously being on a diet of any kind doesn&#8217;t count as eating normally though it does depend on how extreme your diet regime is.</p>
<p>However, you can find that <a href="http://prenatalvitamins.org/">prenatal vitamins</a> are recommended. What such a supplement programme does is ensure that you have enough of everything that your baby may need. Quite a lot of the time we get away with being a bit short of one or two of these vitamins but it&#8217;s not really a good move to be short of something vital where babies are concerned.</p>
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		<title>Asking about the gym equipment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the minor but important things about starting into a gym membership is asking questions about the equipment.
OK, you&#8217;ll know what cycles are and nobody knows what the various weights machines are called. But what about the ellipticals? Don&#8217;t know what they are? Neither did I until I realised that they&#8217;re what&#8217;s generally called [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the minor but important things about starting into a gym membership is asking questions about the equipment.</p>
<p>OK, you&#8217;ll know what cycles are and nobody knows what the various weights machines are called. But what about the <a href="http://www.nordictrack.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Category2_-1_10301_12401_19053_Y">ellipticals</a>? Don&#8217;t know what they are? Neither did I until I realised that they&#8217;re what&#8217;s generally called the ski-ing machines (or at least that&#8217;s what I call them).</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve gotten past that problem then you&#8217;ll have to work your way up to asking about nutrition or rather about all the heaps of supplements that seem associated with gyms these days. Whether they&#8217;re &#8220;legal&#8221; for athletes isn&#8217;t an issue for us amateurs but that doesn&#8217;t simplify the issues surrounding them. And, no, you probably can&#8217;t just ignore them if you&#8217;re serious about getting fitter as sooner or later you&#8217;ll reach the point where you need to actually eat more to build muscle and supplements will enter your life at that point.</p>
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