 | News
expose' sites:
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| Information sites:
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| Kin
& friend's home pages:
 | daughter Jennifer Kendrick, Gilbert, S. C. [here] |
| nephew Chad Seybt, Eau Claire, Wisconsin [here] |
| cousin John Cain, Lexington, S. C. [here] |
| cousin Bob Brown, Florida [here]
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| Weather
sites:
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| Travel
sites:
| South Carolina Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (SCPRT),
the 4th best state tourism web site in the USA (June 2002) |
| radar tracking of flights: here |
| arrival, departure, and airport delay status: here |
| cheap (but nonrefundable) airline, hotel/motel, rental car prices (Priceline.com):
here
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| Shopping:
| fee per month access to product ratings @ Consumer Reports: here |
| buyer's opinions of products: here |
| compare prices: here |
| discount bargains: here |
| low-priced shopping: see what it is priced here before you buy in the store. |
| America's
Cheapest Family, Annette and Steve Economides (economy-dis) have lived
the Economiser lifestyle since 1982.
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| annual free credit report: [here]
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| E-mail hoaxes:
| urban-legend portal listing many
hoax-busting sites |
| Truth or Fiction site about computer viruses and other hoaxes. |
| Urban Legends Reference Pages: site with hoax categories & detailed rebuttals
[HERE] |
| Federal Communicable Disease Center (CDC), about health related hoaxes. |
| Legends, tails, folklore, and hoaxes catalogued at the Urban Legends and Folklore
web site.
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| Movie reviews...values-based: here
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| Free long-distance calls from computers to phones
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| How things work:
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| Drug Treatment Centers: A system which helps you locate treatment centers by using zip codes.
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| The American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) site provides listings of local therapists.
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| The American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC) site provides listings of local therapists.
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| Mary Hunt's debt-proof-living web site on how to make you money go further
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| tips, saving on heating & A/C expenses [here]
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| on-line sports events ticket re-sales (people who can't attend and want to sell tickets they've
purchased).
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| A source for Apple computer products.
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| Banks:
| FDIC insurance estimator of how well your bank insures your deposits [HERE]. |
| Bank safety or riskiness [HERE]...scroll
down to "safe & sound ratings" link.
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| Investor stuff:
| Investor Education: Famed investor, Warren Buffett, has often given advice. His most fundamental advice is about courses on investing: take a course on how to value a company (or land, or metals, or collectibles, etc.) because you buy an investment ( a stock or anything else) based on your prediction of a future, advantageous increase in realizable value. There is a collection of Mr. Buffett's letters to share-holders of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, containing much investment wisdom at that company's web site. |
| interest rate monitors (and other economic data) at Economagic.com
: Once there, scroll down to "Prepackaged multiple interest rate charts"
to see graphs |
| H. W. "Skip" Weldon (Columbia, S. C.) no-nonsense investor
"rules" [HERE]
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| Automobile expenses:
- Insurance: shop around with on-line comparisons,
such as.
- Take a higher deductible and "self-insure" for that part.
- Pick a car that holds up safely, is less expensive to repair, & is less desirable to thieves [safety records]
- check these potential insurance discounts which you may not know that you can ask for.
- repair advice: Sam's Garage
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| Jerry Fowler, Real Estate, house buying, & related, central S. C. [here]
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| Home repairs & upgrades...advice:
| James Dulley's website [here] |
| At Home with Gary Sullivan, Sundays on WVOC 560AM, 1-800-823-8255 |
| Wayne Whiteside The Home Doctor, Saturdays between 6 & 8 AM WVOC
560AM
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| Financial calculators:
numerous free on-line calculations...at first glance it looks like you have to
pay; but that is only if you are adding some calculators to your web site.
Also Hugh Chou's site with 45 or so refinance and other calculators [here].
And one suggested by Melissa Knight which features a large number of
calculators [HERE].
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| Credit grading by mortgagors: getting mortgage or other loan & want to see how the lenders will grade
you (forewarned is forearmed) at Fair, Isaac and Company...see "myFICO"
area (FICO).
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| buying a house & want to know
about mortgage "tricks"?: check the
mortgage professor who is Jack M. Guttentag, now Professor of Finance
Emeritus, formerly Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking, at the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; site includes financial
calculators.
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| Recipes:
| Recipes from Charleston Restaurants (and
other USA sites): here |
| Recipes for any meal: here |
| some family favorites: here
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