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Okay, everything is going up. Gas, groceries, electric, you name it, the price of living is rising so much faster than our pay checks over the last few months.

If you are like most people, you are finding that you are less likely to “fill her up” at the gas station; less likely to buying the extra “junk food” you are accustomed to buying at the grocery store, and you are probably being more frugle with the electric around the house.

It is a no brainer that we need to cut corners, and “tighten our belts” during this economic crises.

Unfortunatley, there are a lot of people that are already stretched to their limits, and have been doing cutbacks long before everything was rising in price. Most people only get paid every other week, and they are finding it is hard, if not impossible, to stretch their money over a two week period. Well, fortunately, there has been an influx in small, realtime loans called “Payday Loans”, that are taking the world by storm…

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first official Mother’s Day on May 9, 1914. This proclamation was a proclamation was particularly meaningful to Ana Jarvis, who several years prior had started a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day holiday to remember her own mother who had recently died. Jarvis wanted a day where all mother’s - past and present - could be honored.

Today Mother’s Day is a popular holiday, where gifts and cards are sent around the world.

The official flower for Mother’s Day is the carnation. Pink carnations are for living mothers, and white carnations are for those who have passed on.

Check your smoke detector at least once every six months, if not more frequently, as it may not even be working.

Although the average life span of a smoke detector as long as 15 years, they could easily go on the blink and you would not even know about it.

About 30% of smoke detectors fail after 10 years according to a recent report from the National Fire Protection Association. The report also states that 50% of them shut down after 15 years.

Although it may emit a beep when you test it, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will alert you to smoke or fire.