Sean Adkins: May 2008 Archives

Last night, I was relaxing in my living room watching a not-so-cool Arnold Schwarzenegger movie when my door bell rang. Standing on my porch was my next door neighbor tying to explain that a man was in her home vacuuming her mattress.

Ok, you have my attention. I'm listening.

It seems that a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman has talked himself in to her home and, at the moment, was demonstrating for her husband the magical powers of said super sucker. Like her husband, I too was impressed with the cleaning ability of this space-aged vacuum cleaner.

Don't think that you're the only one using your tax rebate check to pay for gas and food while your friends are out buying big-screen TVs and clothes. A National Retail Federation survey has found that more people are spending the bulk of their checks on necessities like gas and food than discretionary purchases. Check out the survey. How have you spent your check?

Call me a conspiracy theorist. But, it seems odd that now, when people have started to receive their tax rebate checks, that gasoline prices have started to drop. If one were to speculate, one could deduce that the fall in gas prices are working to lull people into a false sense of financial security allowing them to be more free with their discretionary income, or tax rebate funds. It's just a theory. What do you think? Will gas price jump again?

Did anyone notice that regular gas prices have dropped? Local regular gas prices dropped 0.3 percent today from a Wednesday high of $3.644 to $3.633 per gallon, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Do you think gas prices will continue to drop or is this just a minor speed bump on our way to $4 a gallon?