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What Will You Do With $100 Amazon Gift Card?

April 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment

What will you do with $100 Amazon gift card? Go on a shopping spree, I guess – because that’s what I did.

I recently won $100 Amazon gift card from one of the online contests and giveaways that I joined. Unknown to many, I love joining these contests, staying up late at night just to follow Twitter accounts, leaving blog comments, voting for so-and-so, liking Facebook pages and doing other similar stuffs that are usually required as entries in giveaways. And I’m so glad that my efforts paid off. This is my first win this year, yey!

I decided to splurge on some books during my recent shopping at Amazon. Most of the books that I bought are for Kindle however, I also ordered printed copies of two books authored by Michael Masterson (or Mark Morgan Ford). One is Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence and the other is Power and Persuasion: How to Command Success in Business and Your Personal Life.

I actually was planning to buy a sewing machine because I wanted to start a new hobby but I decided to just buy one at a local store so that I can try it out. Since there’s not much you can buy with your $100 (blame inflation!), I figured books will be the best choice.

Have you ever joined and won online contests before? What was your prize? What did you do with it? Care to share in the comments section?

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My Dream Home

April 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment

I recently inquired about the cost of constructing a custom home and I realized that it is cheaper to buy an existing home than to have one custom-built. Despite the cost, I am hoping to have my dream home constructed somewhere in the northwest area of Las Vegas.
Among the features that I want for my dream home are large yard, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, granite kitchen countertops with similar ones in the bath, an open floor plan layout. I would like plush carpets especially in rooms but I prefer tiles in the kitchen. A swimming pool would be nice too.

I have read about a product referred to as insulated concrete forming system that I would like to use on my dream home. With ICF, one can build reinforced concrete walls with built-in acoustical, fire and thermal protection.

Anyway, I recently saw a listing for a lot that I think is going to be a perfect spot for my dream home. It is almost 10,000 square feet big and I am already imagining my 2,500 square feet single story home in it. I am just in a dilemma because I do not know whether to buy the lot right away or apply for a construction loan first. I do not want to use up all my funds buying this lot but preparing all the stuff that will be needed for a construction loan will take some time.

Any suggestions?

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Changing the Future with cureLauncher

January 18, 2013 by

One of my new year’s resolution is to join a group or organization that supports a socially relevant cause. I still haven’t decided which organization to join yet but I found a website online which will allow me to contribute to the betterment of the future through their site in the meantime.

I am referring to cureLauncher. It is an online community that raises money for various cancer treatments and medical research. It somehow serves as a bridge that connects private donors to medical researchers and doctors who are in need of funding for their respective world-class medical and technology projects.

Currently, cureLauncher’s website features Dr. Lee Roy Morgan and his research called DM-CHOC-PEN, a chemotheraphy drug for breast cancer that has spread through the lungs, brain or liver. They are hoping to come up with $10,000 for this project. Twenty sponsors already contributed $1971 to the project. With twelve more days to go, I hope more pledges and donations will be given to this worthwhile project.

Previous clinical trials featured at cureLauncher include testing a hormone with a drug to treat pre-clinical heart failure in Spokane, Washington and the pacemaker/defibrillator after heart attack trials at Texas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Georgia, California and Arizona.

Interested to learn more about cureLauncher and how they help our world? Well, you can visit their website now by clicking this link: cureLauncher.

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