Why are we cutting down our trees to make a cardboard box that's used once, maybe twice, to just throw it away in a landfill? It doesn't make any sense, when over 20 percent of the American population packs and moves each year- generating massive quantities of waste, that ultimately ends up in a landfill. It's a huge problem and we haven't had a choice or a gree sustainable solution in over 230 years. New or used cardboard boxes are just too (0 comments)
wwwoclisacom: Know When to Fold 'Em
- 05/11/09 05:55 AM
Published by Mildred Wilkins Short sales are becoming fairly common practice in the real estate market these days and anyone who has completed one knows that you had better be prepared for rough riding when you get the seller to sign a listing contract when they are upside down. If the term "short sale" is unfamiliar to you, it refers to a situation when the sale of a home will not net enough to cover the mortgage and closing expenses. It is a problem which occurs frequently in today's market place. Whether the consumer is upside down because of refinancing, new (0 comments)
wwwoclisacom: National High Five day
- 04/16/09 09:38 AM
It's National High Five day. National High Five Day falls on the third Thursday of April each year, which falls this year on April 16, 2009. The holiday originated at the University of Virginia in 2002, and has since spread across the nation, and around the globe. A student's story of National High Five day: "Imagine that while on your way to class, you pass a dignified looking middle-aged man in a suit. You, of course, are wearing the same underwear as yesterday, a pair of pants off your floor, and a T-shirt with something ironic printed on it. Instead (1 comments)