I am so happy that sites like www.sellthecar.com exist and are so easy to use – I remember when I wanted to sell my first ever car about 15 years ago now and it was a complete nightmare – ringing round all the local papers and listing it in the for sale section, usually at an astronomical cost for just a few words. Then having to deal with people calling up to ask basic questions or coming around for a look.

It’s a lot easier when you just have to write one listing that can be as long as you like so it can include all the obvious information people are likely to want to know, such as the age, mileage, colour and condition of the car. Being able to add a photo is a great plus as well as they say that people shop with their eyes – you can be an expert wordsmith and make something sound a lot more attractive than it is, but when there’s a photo right in front of your eyes it’s a lot easier to see the real deal and make your own informed decision.

The Internet in general just makes life a whole lot easier for us these days, doesn’t it?

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I was just looking at iPod cases online because mine is getting rather tatty, in fairness it’s no surprise as I have had it since the day I got my ipod and that was at least 4 or 5 years ago now. I think I am going to get something a little more trendy that my current one that looks like a sock your granny might wear hehe

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A friend of mine was asking me what the best diet pills are as she obviously knows I have lost a lot of weight recently – I found it quite strange that she assumed that meant I would know about diet pills, like that’s the only way I could have lost weight? I have never taken a diet pill in my life and I don’t plan to start, I lost my 98lbs the old fashioned way

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I am pleased to say that translations services have come a long way in the last few years – I remember when I used to have to rely on online translations companies such as babelfish and I knew the results I was getting were terrible, we used to enter some text to translate from English to any other language, take the result it gave us and translate it back to English and it was complete and utter nonsense every time.

As I say I am glad things have come on since then and we have much more reliable ways and means of easily and accurately translating large blocks of texts – it’s a lot cheaper and easier to outsource someone to do the work for you these days and most importantly you know that the results you are sent will be accurate.

I have been using London based translations service, Rosetta Translation, for a number of years now and always find them to be very reliable. If you are looking for some translation services yourself you can simply fill in a form on their website to let them know what it is you need and they’ll get back to you with a quite, so you’ll know upfront exactly how much it is going to cost.

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We’re going on vacation – hurrah.

We decided at Christmas that we really couldn’t afford to go this year as we’d have more important things to spend our money on come September (a house renovation is not cheap) but some friends booked a cottage on the cheap that sleeps 8 and invited us and some other friends along. Sharing the cost of the cottage and the gas definitely makes it more affordable. They were lucky enough to know a great aspen vacation rentals website that offers some last minute bargain deals and the say they were keeping an eye on it on a daily basis looking out for that killer offer that was too good to pass up.

Because we won’t be going in our own car though we will definitely need to find a cheap car hire company in the area – we love our friends but we don’t plan on spending the entire week in their pockets so cheap car hire will be an essential – we like to be able to get out and do our own thing, explore the local area and points of interest etc. Being stuck in one place with no car would be a bit of a nightmare to us. I hope it’s nice and simple and easy to find cheap car hire in the area -we’ve never had to hire a car before so don’t really know where to begin.

Still – how exciting, I really thought we wouldn’t be able to get away at all this year.

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I was recently asked to help out my aunt with some estate planning that was causing her a lot of stress – I often get asked to help out with things like this as I once worked in the tax field but it was a long time ago now and it’s a fast-moving world. I initially said yes I’d help her as I love to help my friends and family but I almost instantly regretted it when I realised every thing involved – disposing of an estate while trying to minimise expenses and taxes was never my area of expertise.

Instead of spending a long time doing research and worrying about giving her bad information that did more harm than good I decided to spend the time finding a good Boca Raton Estate Planning lawyer to answer her questions instead. Sure it means it would cost her some money – but free advice is useless if it doesn’t help you out in the long run, right?

In the end we went with Rutherford Mulhall, P.A. They are a Boca Raton Attorneys providing legal services since 1990. They have offices in South Florida in Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida – so they are ideal for her. It was really easy to find lots of lawyers online but not so easy to find the ‘right’ one, how are you supposed to know which one is right for you just by looking at their sales patter online?

As a thank you my aunt has said she’s happy for myself and my husband to go and visit her in the near future and see the sights of Boca Raton, I know from what she has told me that it’s a really lovely place to visit. The Boca Raton Chamber is apparently really lovely and worth a visit as well.

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I discovered two motorola phone batteries a few months ago as I was having a spring clean around the house – what is odd about that though is that as far as I can remember I have never even owned a motorla phone so I have no idea where they would have come from. I have mainly had Samsung or LG phones…and I think I had an Alcatel at one stage as well, but never a Motorola

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So, my husband’s birthday was just around the corner back at the end of June and it was a big birthday one for him, the big 30! I wanted to make sure I got him something really special that he would remember forever and really enjoy.

For many years, when we traveled to Boynton Beach he wanted to stop and look in at Valencia Reserve because he had heard it was a really wonderful place to live, but we never actually managed to take the time to pull in and have a look for ourselves.

I looked at their website to see what sort of things they had on offer and they had a huge clubhouse where something was always going on. Whether it was an art class, a yoga class or something going on in the spa. Plus there was a fitness center, a pool, tennis courts and even a basketball court that we could enjoy together.

I was really excited about what Valencia Reserve had to offer, and was just sorry I had waited so long. So I booked us some plane tickets and an appointment to see someone who could show us around and tell us every thing we needed to know about the reserve – I made arrangements with his boss to allow him a few days off work but without him knowing so that it could still remain a surprise. The hardest part was deciding when to tell him – a few days beforehand or on the day we were set to leave for maximum shock effect. I backed a bag for us both in secret and decided to leave it until the last minute.

When the time eventually comes for us to think about what we will do during our retirement years – relocating to Valencia Reserve is definitely going to be discussed and is high up on our wish list.

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As you may know by now, I recently relocated to beautiful Virginia and so far I am completely in love with the place as well as my new job and lifestyle – moving out here was one of the best things I have done in recent years and I don’t regret it at all.

My new job is hard work that’s for sure, I have gone from sitting behind a desk all day long surrounded by other people who are always noisy or chatty or asking you do to something – to being very active walking around my neighbourhood most of the day and chatting to locals about subjects that actually interest me and them! I have been losing weight even though I am not watching my diet too much recently simply because I am a lot more active.

The other day I was walking down the high street, and I saw an advertisement for some nice looking condos Alexandria VA, and their biggest selling point was that they were pet friendly. They even have a dog park right near their hotel, which they call the ‘Bark Park’ which is super cute and much more fun than any other park name I have seen before. I love that I live right next to a park as I can go for a run there when I am feeling energetic, take my loved ones there for a picnic when the weather is nice or just go and sit on the grass and read a book surrounded by nature. I don’t have a dog but the fact I have such a gorgeous park near by really makes me want to get one so that I can take him or her out with me, so it’d be great to have a ‘Bark Park’ right next door for those that do love their pets

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I was looking at some triton wedding bands earlier and they are actually really nice, my other half would like a platinum ring but I’m not sure our budget can quite stretch that far so I have been looking at alternatives. We are going to go to the store tomorrow and have a look at some ‘in the flesh’, hopefully he will like them too

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