I hope you all caught the story in this morning’s business section about the class action lawsuit filed against Pure Weight Loss (formerly known as L.A. Weight Loss).
I feel terrible for the people who lost hundreds or thousands of dollars when the diet center closed abruptly in December.
Have you or any of your friends been members of Pure Weight Loss? Did you lose a lot of money?
Or do you belong to other weight-loss programs? What have your experiences been with them?
Another year, another tax season.
Have the W2’s started cluttering your counter space yet? I know they’ve started to filter into my mail.
I panicked for a little because I’ve never done my own taxes before. My dad’s bailing me out this year and has offered to do them for me one last time.
But I can’t imagine I’m the only one who gets a little nervous at the prospect of having to do their taxes for the first time.
That leads me to our newest challenge to Daily Record readers. We are looking for someone who is planning on doing their own taxes for the first time this year. You can be someone who is sick of paying lots of money for an accountant or you can be a real first timer, who has never had to deal with your taxes at all before this year.
We want to be there from the get go, chronicling everything from purchasing and installing the software to the very last time you hit print to get your forms to mail. We want to learn how easy or hard it is for a first-timer to master the software and learn the answer to the eternal question, which is better, a person or a box?
If you are interested, e-mail me at jmilcetich@ydr.com. Include your name, age, municipality, why you are doing your taxes for the first time and why you think a software program is the better option.
I think this Q&A from the Wall Street Journal will tell you the basics of what to expect if we are in a recession. It's a scary word, although the definition kind of takes the fangs off it.
Interestingly enough, even if we are in a recession, no one would be able to tell us yet. The people who push the button on that call look back on recessions instead of predict them or call them in the air.
So are you going to wait until someone says we are in a recession, and all that involves, to curb spending or are you going to do that regardless of what description bankers give the economy?
Don’t I wish I lived in Jersey.
Ok well no, not really. But I do wish I lived close enough that I could drive across the state line to get my gas. Not only is gas currently about 20 cents cheaper per gallon, but it’s pumped for you, which is extra beneficial in the dead of winter.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported today the national average fell two cents over the weekend to $3.01.
But really are people supposed to be out in the streets celebrating? Gas is still on average over $3 per gallon.
When I started driving five years ago, I could fill my mom’s mini-van for $20.
Five years later, I own my own car — a fuel-efficient sedan — and it costs close to $40 to fill the tank. I can’t imagine what people driving bigger cars are spending.
There is something seriously wrong with that picture.
Gas prices around here are ranging from $3.09 to $3.13 per gallon from what I’ve seen being out and about.
What are you doing to deal with the insane price of gas? Driving less? Car-pooling? Just sucking it up?
I’m interested in hearing.
Gas prices are up.
As is the cost of just about everything else -- taxes, food, you name it.
It's all anyone talks about these days.
So why did I still see a sea of SUVs while I was traveling this weekend?
