Asha Anujeeva

The Credit Exchange website offers a variety of services related to debt management.  Although they are not a debt management service, they are a referral service that will refer their customers to someone in their affiliation program that can help them with their debt management questions and concerns.  Cred Card Counseling, debt consolidation, debt negotiation, and financial analysis services are all available through their affiliates.

I was looking at their website a few minutes ago and was interested in their page called credit facts.  It had graphs and charts showing how much money you spend on interest payments at different interest rates.  Those kinds of facts sure can scare me into not using my credit cards very much!

I was surprised to read on the Time.com website that Apple is recalling thousands of 3G Iphone adapters.  Apparently the prongs break off in the socket, causing risk of electric shock.  This only applies to the Ultra-compact USB adapters, and the consumers who bought the Iphones can continue to charge their phones using the standard USB adapter.

I haven’t heard anything on the “news” about this recall, but I’ve been too busy to listen to the news – I sure hope that the word is getting out adequately so that all of the folks who bought one of these knows to stop using it!

In today’s economy, more consumers are relying on credit cards to help them get through these rough times.  I like to use credit cards to help me keep track of where my money goes, and I like to use my cards that give me cash rewards.  I don’t usually carry much cash around with me, so if a business does not accept credit cards, chances are that I won’t do business with them! 

A vital part of doing business nowadays is accepting credit cards, and one of the best places for a company to get a merchant account (which means accepting credit cards) is with the online company called Merchant Advisors.  Their website address is onlinecheck.com.  They don’t charge any fees, require no contracts, and will give their customers a free credit card machine.  What more could you ask for?

I was surprised to read on the BBC website an article about how some American cities are trying to (or have) pass(ed) a law against baggy jeans that sag to the point where the wearer’s underwear shows.  The article was talking about a case in a Florida town where a teenager was arrested for having baggy pants that sagged and showed his boxer shorts, and that a judge threw out the case calling it unconstitutional.  I didn’t realize that America was now formally embracing “fashion police!”

What I found very interesting to read in the article, however, was the claim that it is believed that this particular fashion trend (which I don’t like) started in prisons, where inmates are given baggy prison uniforms without belts.  i think that is disturbing – fashion trends start in prisons?  That is a sad commentary on today’s society!