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Life is short

A friend of mine passed recently and it has really thrown me. It has made me evaluate my life. It has made me think about things like wills, life insurance and money. Most interestingly of all, I no longer care for savings but more for quality of life. If my life is short, then at least it will be a life filled with quality and no regrets.

Wholesale or not?

When I saw the site for this site – www.wholesaleinsurance.net for the first time, I though who is the poor insecure person who buys so much insurance that he needs to buy it wholesale! Apparently I missed the point. What they meant is they put all the insurers together and you have a whole choice. I guess they sell lots of insurance because they have a wide range which might be why they get wholesale prices. Personally I like comparison websites as you can choose the cheapest based on the same criteria but do I believe ou get wholesale price… not really. I guess the only way to check would be to run another quote on the cheapest on their home website.

WholeSale Insurance

Wholesaleinsurance.net seems to be selling wholesale insurance… not sure I see the point of wholesale insurance except for Landlord insurance…. I mean who needs a dozen life insurance policies? Mind you perhaps their idea is more that they sell many so they can offer wholesale prices… but then don’t other insurances also sell many policies?

Personally I don’t have any life insurance. Is it a good thing… only if nothing happens or solely minor things… but that is what I am counting on!

Tesco Offer

I am always on the look out for offers, whether it is a BOGOF, 3 for 2 or even 2 for less than 2. However, I am not into offers where buying 2 costs more on offer than 2 not on offer!! Case in point.. see the image – Direct from my screen! I am not interested in buying 2 salad tubs for £2 when one costs just 88p! Between you and me, it ensures that I do not buy 2 even if  I was originally going to buy 2 because no-one wants to pay more than usual selling price! Or have I got it wrong? If I have…. just click the offer link to buy it!

Tesco’s offer – 1 for 88p, 2 for £2.00 -  a 12% increase on their regular price!

Who knows, maybe salad is just the thing someone would prescribe to deal with fatigue in women, but it’s certainly not what I’m looking for. Maybe in another life …

Opportunities

Last week I went on a business course. You see I was wondering if I could turn my need to shop into a money earner  such as shopping for a living. They went through everything from setting up a business plan to franchise opportunities to VAT, Accounts, Tax and Payroll. Oh my head…. but still if I could shop for a living.

Does anyone want to pay me to shop for them?

Work

I think my ideal job would be as a professional shopper but the reality is that jobs like that are hard to come by. Truth is most jobs are ok with me except for perhaps banking jobs… I don’t think I could handle all that money constantly. I would would feel constantly broke handling other people’s money. Besides which… accounting drives me up the wall… just could not do it.

Anyone wants to pay me to shop for them? The savings I could probably make, would probably cover my salary!!

The bad side

The bad side of being a shopaholic is the fact that you sign up for offers but along with it comes so much junk mail and so many scams. From scams to help someone get millions out of a country to acai scams and fake bank emails to fake websites that take your cash but not send your goods.

The only advice I can give… is do not click on links unless you are 100% sure they are legitimate emails, never give out your password details and always ensure that there is a padlock when checking out of any shop or DON’T give your details.

Work

I have been offered some work which includes locating cardboard displays and restocking them in some major shops. Don’t think the money is good but work is work so I guess I will be taking them on. The best bit is taking a background look into major shops, their stock rooms and I even get to boss them about what to order and what not. So it is very exciting despite it not paying too well. :)

Money can’t buy….

If you ever have an accident, you can get money!!  You suffer personal injury Tucson save the day! Well not quite because let’s be honest… money cannot buy you health, love or bring back people from the dead. Admittedly it can make things easier but money is not everything. And personally I still believe if you fall, well it is an accident… suing the council, the shops or whoever only makes things all over more expensive and we end up living in fear! How ridiculous is that!

Advertising

I was watching an advert on TV and they made out that term life insurance was easy and affordable. And it is true that it can start at a really low price but by my books, you did not get much back. And I like to think I can count on life. But sadly we cannot decide when we die (unless by suicide which would make insurance redundant anyway). So at least you can plan to protect your loved ones. But the only way to leave them better off than they would be now, would be to take out a more expensive insurance than you can actually afford easily.

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