Jill Owens

I'm a lot like you –I try hard every day to make a little extra to live the life I want to live and do more of the things I really want to do.

Methods to Increase Gas Mileage

 GENERAL  No Responses »
Aug 292013
 

Methods to get along with an AUTOMOBILE

Traveling an SUV offers its own benefits. They can provide increase grip within the snowfall, they can traverse more challenging terrain, and you may haul more things to wherever you would like to go. Not forgetting the advantage associated with having 4×4 along with a car that a person could take camping out. But presently there are a problem with having everything space and flexibility, lower fuel useage. If you need to keep the SUV, plus do not want to trade it all set for a good economy vehicle, there’s some thing that you can do… learn to obtain increase gas mileage along with an VEHICLE. You may not use any kind of driving programs, or even re-learn how you can drive, simply stick to couple of easy steps plus improve your SUV’s fuel useage.

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The particular simplest action in order to take is eliminate any unnecessary rubbish which may be adding weight with regard to your automobile. Keep the particular things possess to be secure, just such as a tire jack port, spare plus crisis flares. Obtain rid of that will old motor you have been carting close to, or that will box of fine sand you kept inside the car almost all winter (if it all is currently summer time), plus lighten your weight. You may include ‘mpgs’, dependent on how good your SUV works, in situation you lose a lot of dead bodyweight.

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Eliminate that old vehicle rack. Or even else likely in order to use that vehicle roof rack on the SUV, eliminate it through, and start finding increase gas mileage on the SUV instantly. A vehicle rack adds lots of drag, plus based on exactly how well your VEHICLE performs, it all might help a person save a great deal of money upon fuel expenses.

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Understand how to push your SUV a new bit a lot more conservatively and a person may obtain increase gas mileage. Avoid period turns while fast, plus lay from the particular gas whenever you accelerate and sustain your speed lower, even upon the street. Your VEHICLE is really the large vehicle consequently the faster this goes, the particular greater energy this requires. Furthermore, keeping the regular speed plus accelerating slower could keep your engine inside a lower R.P.M., and for that reason should give your own VEHICLE increase gas mileage. Offer it a attempt, and you might be surprised in the fuel useage your SUV may obtain.

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Keep the tires inflated in the direction of the tire stress on the wheels. Under-inflated wheels create fatigue the particular asphalt, thus that your VEHICLE can get along with only a simple five-minute take a look at any gas train station. Furthermore, think regarding a tire which usually is a lot more fuel-efficient for the particular vehicle. In case you have off-road tires along with large knobs designed for gripping loose dirt, gravel plus sand, a person might be compromising increase gas mileage within case you generate your SUV upon smooth, town sidewalk.

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Strategy your trips along with gas saving within your thoughts, avoiding visitors, up-hill climbs, or even winding highways. Combine smaller sized trips as 1 large journey, so that will your engine offers time for a person to warm-up plus performs in the higher-level. Motors typically obtain increase gas mileage anytime they have skilled an opportunity in order to warm-up towards the particular right heat. So long as keep in mind that add miles with regard to your path, visit your own closest destination continue, as nicely as the furthest first, therefore that your engine motor includes a chance to warm-up plus run longer in the optimum heat.

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Carry out all of the particular proper servicing. Get a good oil modify, service your own engine, get rid of your SUV’s tranny, swap out your air filters plus keep on your own engine servicing. Replace the particular spark connects, clean your own grill, plus maintain the particular chasis lubed. This particular can prolong the particular life span associated with the SUV’s motor, and offer a person increase gas mileage or else you SUV age groups.

Suggestions & Notifications

Make use of synthetic automotive items within your SUV if you need to obtain increase gas mileage , given that it stops operating slower, leads to less sludge plus build-up.

End up being familiar with your own SUVs aerodynamics plus remove something that will causes drag which includes flags, big spoilers or back bike shelves.

Buying a hybrid VEHICLE will even reduce usage. Whilst not as efficient like a hybrid vehicle, a cross SUV does obtain increase gas mileage.

Usually do not remove anything from the car you may need as an extra car jack port, or essential parts, particularly if you plan to go rough-road.

Adhere to your SUV’s producers guidelines before attempting to alter or even change anything Program. Pulling. Bitmap VEHICLE, simply to enhance the fuel useage. Making modifications, blocking away of your barbeque grill, or including different tires can effect the security and performance associated with the automobile, a possibility always concerning the mpgs.

Find out how to Increase your MPG by 50% Increase Gas Mileage

toothache cure

 HEALTH  3 Responses »
Aug 072012
 

If you have a bad toothache, the only sensible thing to do is see a dentist.

In fact, you can save a whole lot of money over a lifetime just by being a regular visitor to a (good) dentist.

They don’t always charge in standard ways; if you are prepared to travel a bit, choose a dentist in a less affluent area. They will generally charge less.

But if you have a bad toothache and it’s going to take a few days to get to the dentist, my “cure” is:

– chop a small clove of garlic very finely, add a good pinch of salt, and swish and chew the mixture around the tooth.

Garlic works wonders and stops the pain – very good for teeth on edge!

The only trouble is fronting up to a dentist reeking of garlic. I suggest two days prior to the dentist appointment you choose a strong chemical pain reliever instead (nurofen or ibuferen etc.).

 

 

teeth whiteners

 APPEARANCE, SUBSTITUTES  No Responses »
Jul 302012
 

Try rubbing the inside of a banana peel around your teeth for a minute or two.

Then use a toothbrush as usual. (I use a little salt only.) Amazing! In just two weeks you should notice a big difference.

I have also read that ground activated charcoal on a toothbrush works wonders too! Makes your mouth very black though – until you rinse!

turn off the chandeliers

 ELECTRICITY, HEALTH, SUBSTITUTES  No Responses »
Jul 302012
 

I am always amazed when I visit someone’s place in the evening and the lighting in the main room is overhead.

Now, I don’t mean the times when people put on the main room’s overhead lighting just for me.

I mean when there is ONLY overhead lighting and no offset lighting at all.

I know we are all different, but for me, at night, the living room is dark except for a low-light (warm) standard lamp in the corner.

Some people say just the TV is enough these days – since they have become so big and bright – but I think a soft, warm corner light is still essential.

It’s the bright overhead lighting that I don’t understand.

Fluorescent lights? Not for me. But if you really want to save…I suppose so.

You can always get ECO fluorescent tubes but my preference would be for a small aquarium growth light, and not overhead.

PS: I have read that uncovered fluoros may have a negative impact on your health. The wikipedia seems to think so too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescent_lamps_and_health

 

soy products

 FOOD AND DRINK, RIP-OFFS, SUBSTITUTES  No Responses »
Jul 302012
 

Sometimes you just have to make a stand.

I try not to buy processed soy products. Soy bean farming is destroying the Amazon. The rich crooks who stole the land from native farmers have a lot to answer for. Google it and I challenge you not to be at least a little ashamed to be part of the human race.

So what has this to do with saving money?

Well, not saving the Amazon is going to cost us all, but processed soy products are like paying good money for less of something.

These days supermarkets have the word soy written on products all over the place. And you thought you were doing your body a favour? Not so. All the real goodness of the plant has been stripped out. Once again, google it:

http://www.naturalnews.com/027880_soy_products_milk.html (for example)

I get angry with this constant shortchanging and addition of non-foods in our diet. Excess sugar and salt in everything. Don’t you?

Unprocessed soy is a different matter entirely.

Those poor farmers have had their land stolen from them and we lose the Amazon. And I thought the loggers were bad…

 

 

 

feeding your pet

 PETS  No Responses »
Jul 302012
 

A good friend of mine put me onto this.

She absolutely adores her pet dog and cat and always feeds them good meat and the better canned food (occasionally).

But what she does is mix the meat with white, boiled rice.  Not all the time, but three or four times a week (mine get fed morning and night).

You see, even your pets can do with a bland meal and it helps their little tummies – especially to prevent, and when they get, diarrhea.

Obviously, it makes the meat go further too.

clean out your car!

 GENERAL  No Responses »
Jul 302012
 

Ever wondered how much petrol – and money – you waste just by using your car as a storage wagon?

Get rid of all that excess junk in the back immediately!

But what about the spare wheel? It’s pretty heavy. Costs you plenty to take around with you. Could you do without it?

In the country or on long hauls? No. In the city? Well, it’s not advisable really, but my husband has had a deal with a good buddy now for over ten years. Neither carries a spare around town. They both agree to bail the other out by bringing a spare to the other in such an emergency.

Hasn’t happened yet.

ecards

 SUBSTITUTES  No Responses »
Jul 292012
 

I like receiving cards. I really do. As a student I worked for a short time in a Hallmark factory. All those guys working so hard designing  cards, writing soppy words, printing, cutting, packing. I don’t want to see them lose their jobs but…

The world has gone digital. And me too. ECards are the way I do it nowadays.

Not those horrible free ones with spam and ads. I pay a small 2 yearly membership to a premium site with great cards. And most of my friends like receiving them. (If they don’t and they haven’t said so and they’re still friends, like, who cares?)

http://www.jacquielawson.com

And, no, I get nothing out of recommending this site to you.

vitamins

 FOOD AND DRINK, RIP-OFFS  No Responses »
Jul 292012
 

OK. You can read anything on the internet and believe it’s true. In the end, it’s up to you.

But just google “vitamins waste of money” and get what is surely the real picture.

Vitamins? Seriously? Do you have a bottle of vitamins pills at home? Must be one of the biggest scams of all time.

Put it this way. You’ve been to a doctor before – how many times has s/he prescribed vitamins? Is your doctor really that bad?

It’s like everyone is eating more but taking out insurance against eating less. Duh!

 

at the pub

 FOOD AND DRINK  No Responses »
Jul 292012
 

It’s amazing how quickly your cash can leave your purse or wallet at the pub.

Admittedly this is sometimes hard to do, but when you are with friends at the pub or in a bar…

DON’T TOUCH THE SALTY SNACKS! They are only there to make you drink more.

And, guys especially, if you have a bit of willpower and are about to have a session with the boys…

… go the first round or two on soft drink – straight tonic water or even water is best. Any old excuse will do. That first beer is still waiting for you, but you will have saved a few dollars already. And, because you are…er…less inebriated, you will make better decisions than the others. Like leaving early and just saying no more often – one of the secrets of a successful life by the way!

Incidentally, never feel embarrassed not to drink. Like all habits, the less you do something, the easier it becomes. Drinking is an expensive hobby. Certainly, don’t ever feel sorry for the publican. Remember, he makes more profit out of you drinking his soft drinks than his alcoholic beverages. And salty snacks are his chief wallet emptyers. Even cheap pub meals are there to make sure you down more drinks.

One other thing. Stick to wine and beer. Spirits are for character actors, drunks and cleaning ladies. You can have a much better – and cheaper – time going slow than getting hammered fast. If you have proved over many years that you do have willpower, then a vodka occasionally or a gin and tonic is fine. But a regular night of spirits is for serious drinkers with a healthy bank account and an image problem.

 

 

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