where is the best place to buy microsoft office home and student?
hey guys (and girls)…
I’m thinking of buying a microsoft office home and student version 2007. This is the one that contains Microsoft word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft excel and Microsoft Onenote. Nothing else! I want to know where I can buy this and where it is the cheapest in the net/ in real life. Please help!
Thanks in advance!
Hi the best place to buy Office Home and Student is
www.dabs.com i got the same version from there and it was very cheap – around £80 which is good price and it comes quickly without paying for fast delivery which was good.
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Walmart carried one that I’ve used for years and it was made by Dayrunner. They don’t seem to carry it any longer. The manager was of no help either as to whether or not they just didn’t come in yet but I’ve looked for weeks and nothing. It had a velcro flap. It had pages with pockets for each month. I’d write what bill I paid and when, and I’d tuck the bill in the pocket. It was so easy to be organized that way. I loved it and can’t find another like it either. Anyone know of anything similar to it?
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I need to buy a bike organizer that hangs from the ceiling of the garage and don’t want to pay full price. I’ve searched online without luck. Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
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Suze Orman’s seminar-format video offers a financial pep talk to accompany her book of the same title. Though a good deal of her nine steps are nothing new or revolutionary–plan for the future, cut your credit-card debt, organize your estate, respect money, and take charge of your own money–she makes a few noteworthy points. Using psychology to flush out attitudes about money, she asks the membe…
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Secure Residential and Commercial Public Self Storage Services and Facilities in Pembroke Pines, Hollywood and Miramar, FL
Most households and families these days have a problem with home storage space. If this is an issue simply with expanding families and possessions, it becomes even more crucial when moving house. Somehow, one always seems to have more things than can be accommodated in the new place. While in the process of moving and settling down, one would need even temporary storage space. Even businesses often find need for additional storage space. For many people, storage solutions come in the form of secure residential and commercial public self storage services and facilities. Fortunately, these are available most everywhere, including Pembroke Pines, Hollywood and Miramar, FL.
Secure residential and commercial public self storage services and facilities are housed in a storage building with individual storage units or storage containers. Storage rental can be made for mini storage similar to the size of lockers or for huge storage spaces. You can even rent storage space for motorcycle storage. Common sizes of storage units are 10 feet by 5 feet which is like a closet, 10 feet square, 10 feet by 20 feet which is equivalent to a one car garage, 15 feet by 20 feet, and 20 feet square which is like a two car garage.
A typical public self storage unit is windowless, has a wire mesh or chain link ceiling and has a roll up metal door similar to a one car garage door. It is kept secure by a lock that only the renter holds. Facility management does not have access to each self storage unit.
Nowadays, many public self storage services and facilities have advanced security features. They may have computer-controlled electronic gates to the individual storage units, using a key card, proximity card or biometric means of access such as fingerprint or hand scanning. This ensures that only the tenant can access his or her rented unit. They may also use surveillance cameras and sophisticated alarms to complement their security personnel.
Many things have indeed changed in public self storage services and facilities. In the early days, most of these facilities were drive-up single story units relying on natural ventilation. Today, especially in urban areas, many public self storage services and facilities are housed in tall buildings. There are loading docks on the first level where rolling carts and moving dollies may be provided for the complimentary use of clients. Elevators or freight lifts are available to bring the goods to the appropriate floors. Climate control is also used because most units are located in the interior of the building.
The demand for public self storage services and facilities has grown so much in the United States that statistics show one in every ten households renting a self storage unit. Numbers also point to about 40 million people in the US moving every year, creating even more need for public self storage services and facilities.
In fact, as early as the end of 2007, 9,514 companies have already developed 52,000 public self storage facilities totalling 2.2 billion square feet of storage space in the United States. This land area is thrice the size of Manhattan Island.
Many residential and commercial public self storage services and facilities combine their storage and moving services. They provide moving u-haul trucks rentals as well as moving supplies such as boxes. In some cases, the trucks are provided for free. In other companies, the supplies can be bought even without availing of storage services.
So if you are moving, or if you simply find that you are running out of home storage space, you need not worry. You can find secure residential and commercial public self storage services and facilities in Pembroke Pines, Hollywood and Miramar, FL.
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Keep Your Home Organized This Summer with These Products
Home organization is not much fun during any season, but during the summer it’s even harder to get motivated to keep the house maintained because of the heat. There are actually many products out there that will help you to get organized as well as beat the heat. The hardest part is finding the will to actually do it!
Food and Drink
Keeping food fresh and cool even in the refrigerator can become a problem during the hottest months of the summer. One way to combat this issue is with Always Fresh containers, which helps food to stay fresh for up to fifty days longer than ordinary plastic containers. The innovative plastic that these containers are made from is impregnated with an antimicrobial substance that actually helps prevent the growth of mold, fungus, and bacteria, ensuring that your food stays fresher for longer.
Having a hard time finding the last can of soda in the fridge? When you need a cold drink in a hurry, refrigerator storage items such as the fridge roll out caddy really does the trick! The fridge roll out caddy is made from sturdy plastic and has a wheeled bottom surface that allows to you smoothly roll the caddy out any time you need to access contents. Store a few soda cans on the organized and accessible caddy and you’ll always know where to find a cool drink.
How about keeping food and drink cold and safe from spoilage whether indoor or outdoor? If you need to keep a large amount of food and drink cold, an inflatable salad bar is the perfect solution. Each inflatable salad bar measures twelve by 42 inches, and can accommodate several serving bowls, bottles, and cans. It’s lightweight and portable and can easily be filled with ice to keep food and drink cold.
Indoor Storage
One of the trickiest things about keeping organized in the summer is figuring out what to do with all of the winter clothing and bedding that you won’t be using for the next several months. That’s a lot of storage space that you suddenly need to find out of nowhere!
The solution to this problem is Stackmax compression storage bags. These storage bags can triple your available storage space within minutes. You can store winter linens, clothes, and pillows with one third of the space by putting them in a Stackmax bag and removing the air with a vacuum. Tightly compressed items will then take up a fraction of the space, allowing you to pack your winter items away while still leaving plenty of storage room available.
Another good option for storage is an under-the-bed shoe organizer. For storing winter shoes and boots that you know you won’t wear again until the colder months come back around again, under-the-bed storage is the ideal solution.
Outdoor Storage
Summer is the one season of the year that people most want to spend as much time as possible outdoors enjoying the weather. If you have kids, then you know exactly what kind of mess this can create! Play items can quickly clutter up the back yard, so it’s good to have storage items where these and other objects can be kept for organized and easy access. A deck storage box is the perfect solution. Made from weather-resistant resin, the boxes are large enough to store toys, gardening equipment, outdoor cushions, and other items. Even better, the sturdy construction of this item means it can also double as an extra table or chair.
Summer is also the time of year when tool storage becomes important, as many of us find that our motivation to get the yard into shape magically increases! Tool storage is an easy problem to solve with a five slot tool wall-mounted tool holder. Convenient storage for brooms, rakes, and other items make accessing garden tools quick and easy. Throw in a wall-mounted hose storage rack and gardening is made that much more convenient.
As for taking care of trash outdoors – who wants to worry about that on a day when you could be napping by the pool or reading a book on the deck while soaking up the sun? The perfect solution is a space-saving patio trash can. The slim design of this item allows it to fit neatly in almost any space, and it’s surprisingly roomy as it has the capacity to hold twenty-two gallons. The space-saving trash can has the ability to hold a host of other things in addition to the trash items you generate in your leisure time. The can comes with two bins so you can fill one side with ice to hold cold drinks and then store trash on the in the other side when you’re done!
About the Author
Ryan Anderson is a freelance writer who writes about cleaning and maintenance of a home, offering tips and other information about home organization
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New York is well-reputed for being the city that never sleeps. The hustle and bustle goes on 24/7 and living it has been the life to all New Yorkers. The high density of the population has brought rise to the housing crunch that increased the popularity of smaller-spaced living units that prove far more affordable. But even with the limited space, you can make a home out of your NYC apartment, condo or townhouse no matter what neighborhood you are in. Home remodeling is the perfect solution to have a good dose of comfort and style injected into your everyday living.
When you come to the point when you are already unhappy about how everything in your living unit looks, moving into another is not very easy in New York City or just in any other big city. The most ideal thing to consider would be having your home remodeled. Home remodeling does not prove beneficial to the occupant alone by bringing out the beauty and functionality of any living space, it also boosts home value to considerable amounts.
The business cliché, Fail to plan and plan to fail, may also be just as essential in home remodeling. A plan is vital to prevent future project mishaps throughout the job and unwanted results. First off, take ample time to look into your house to see which area you think mostly needs the facelift. Damages can be considered but you can also go for areas in the house that you often use whether the kitchen or the bathroom. You can also consider unused areas like the basement and attic to remodel into a more functional room. And if you can afford to fund a complete home makeover, then why not do so.
Clearly define a budget to allot into the home remodeling project. Depending on this, you can opt to do minor or major changes. You can always go for DIY kits but also be wary that results may not be the prettiest especially if you are not attuned to such tasks. If the result does turn out to be a disaster, then not only will money be wasted but your time and effort as well. If you are thinking about the costs, dwell on the long term results to be able to make the most value of the dollars that you are about to spend.
If you decide to go get some help from your local NYC contractor, then be sure to hire the best man or company for the job. If the home remodeling job to be done involves various tasks such as wiring, masonry, plumbing, painting and others; then you could find the best from the general contractors. By doing so, you will save yourself the time of finding other experts in certain field as the general contractor would do that for you. But if you have a specific job in mind that may need certain skills then look for experts in the said field.
Going through New York City life is sure to zap some energy out of you. And would not it be glorious to be coming home to comfort, luxury and beauty? So why not consider making a dream home out of your cramped space now?
About the Author
Eugene Makeev has been in the home improvement industry for a while. His skills and expertise, which have been polished through time, are now used to help New York home owners avoid the common pitfalls in home improvements by matching their needs with the right, prescreened General Contractor New York. For more, visit Home Contractors New York.
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As millions of baby boomers reach retirement age and U.S. health care costs soar, Mexican nursing home managers expect more American seniors to head south in coming years.
Mexico’s proximity to the USA, low labor costs and warm climate make it attractive, although residents caution that quality of care varies greatly in an industry that is just getting off the ground there.
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After Jean Douglas turned 70, she realized she couldn’t take care of herself anymore. Her knees were giving out, and winters in Bandon, Oregon, were getting harder to bear alone. Douglas was shocked by the high cost and impersonal care at assisted living facilities near her home. After searching the Internet for other options, she joined a small but steadily growing number of Americans who are moving across the border to nursing homes in Mexico, where the sun is bright and the living is cheap.
For $1,300 a month–a quarter of what an average nursing home costs in Oregon–Douglas gets a studio apartment, three meals a day, laundry and cleaning service, and 24-hour care from an attentive staff, many of whom speak English. She wakes up every morning next to a glimmering mountain lake, and the average annual high temperature is a toasty 79 degrees. “It is paradise,” says Douglas, 74. “If you need help living or coping, this is the place to be. I don’t know that there is such a thing back (in the USA), and certainly not for this amount of money.”
An estimated 40,000 to 80,000 American retirees already live in Mexico, many of them in enclaves such as San Miguel de Allende or the Chapala area, says David Warner, a University of Texas public affairs professor who has studied the phenomenon. There are no reliable data on how many are living in nursing homes, but at least five such facilities are on Lake Chapala.
“You can barely afford to live in the United States anymore,” said Harry Kislevitz, 78, of New York City. A stroke victim, he moved to a convalescent home on the lake’s shore two years ago and credits the staff with helping him recover his speech and ability to walk. “Here you see the birds, you smell the air, and it’s delicious,” Kislevitz said. “You feel like living.”
Many expatriates are Americans or Europeans who retired here years ago and are now becoming more frail. Others are not quite ready for a nursing home but are exploring options such as in-home health care services, which can provide Mexican nurses at a fraction of U.S. prices.
Retirement homes are relatively new in Mexico, where the aging seniors usually live with family. There is little government regulation. Some places have suddenly gone bankrupt, forcing American residents to move. Some Mexican homes have rough edges, such as peeling paint or frayed sofas, that would turn off many Americans.
“I don’t think they’re for everyone,” said Thomas Kessler, whose mother suffers from manic depression and lives at a home in Ajijic. “But basically, they’ve kept our family finances from falling off a cliff.”
Residents such as Richard Slater say they are happy in Mexico. Slater came to Lake Chapala four years ago and now lives in his own cottage at the Casa de Ancianos, surrounded by purple bougainvillea and pomegranate trees.
He has plenty of room for his two dogs and has a little patio that he shares with three other American residents. He gets 24-hour nursing care and three meals a day, cooked in a homey kitchen and served in a sun-washed dining room. His cottage has a living room, bedroom, kitchenette, bathroom and a walk-in closet.
For this Slater pays $550 a month, less than one-tenth of the going rate back home in Las Vegas. For another $140 a year, he gets full medical coverage from the Mexican government, including all his medicine and insulin for diabetes.
“This would all cost me a fortune in the United States,” said Slater, a 65-year-old retired headwaiter.
On a recent afternoon, lunch at the Casa de Ancianos consisted of vegetable soup, beet salad, Spanish rice, baked dogfish stuffed with peppers, garlic bread and a choice of four cakes and two Jell-O salads. Slater’s neighbor doesn’t like Mexican food, so a nursing home employee cooks whatever she wants on a stove beside her bed.
Like many retirees, Slater has satellite television, so he doesn’t miss any American news or programs. When he wants to see a movie or go shopping downtown, the taxi ride is only $2 or $3. Guadalajara, a culturally rich city of four million people, is just 30 miles away.
For medical care, Slater relies on the Mexican Social Security Institute, or IMSS, which runs clinics and hospitals nationwide and allows foreigners to enroll in its program even if they never worked in Mexico or paid taxes to support the system. He recently had gallbladder surgery in an IMSS hospital in Guadalajara, and he paid nothing.
Many of the nursing home employees speak English, and so does Slater’s doctor.
The Casa de Ancianos began accepting foreigners in 2000 as part of an effort to raise extra money, director Marlene Dunham said. It built the cottages especially for the Americans and uses the income received from them to subsidize the costs of the 20 Mexican residents at the home.
The program was so successful that the nursing home has plans for 12 more cottages, a swimming pool, a Jacuzzi and a gazebo with picnic area. The nursing home now advertises on the Internet and through pamphlets distributed in town. Some U.S. companies have also begun investing in assisted living facilities in Mexico, said Larry Minnix, president of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, which represents 5,800 nursing homes and related services.
However, Minnix cautioned that lax government regulation poses dangers at smaller homes.
“It’s the same danger you have of going across the border looking for cheap medications,” Minnix said. “If you don’t know what you’re getting, and you’re not getting it from people you trust, then you’ve got an accident waiting to happen.”
Since many nursing homes are run out of private homes, regulation by state health departments is often spotty. Managers such as Beverly Ward of Casa Nostra and Maura Funes of El Paraiso, both in Ajijic, said that Mexican officials inspect them only once a year, unlike U.S. inspectors, who may visit a home several times a year.
The U.S. Embassy said it had no record of complaints against Mexican nursing homes, but some residents in the Lake Chapala area reported bad experiences at now-defunct homes.
The first home that Jean Douglas lived in after she moved from Oregon was staffed by “gossips and thieves,” she said. It went out of business. Irene Chiara of Los Angeles also lived in a home that was shut down by Jalisco state authorities.
“It was filthy, and the food was very bad. It was all made in the microwave,” she said.
Some Mexican managers also underestimate the costs and difficulty of running a retirement home. Two hotels turned into assisted living facilities, The Spa in San Miguel de Allende and The Melville in the Pacific Coast city of Mazatlán, recently abandoned the business, their managers said.
“It was very expensive to run it,” said Luis Terán, manager of The Melville. Some managers said they were especially selective when admitting foreign residents, to make sure they’ll be able to pay. Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Veterans Affairs and most U.S. insurance companies will not cover care or medicine as long as patients are outside the USA.
Some American residents said they had doubts about the quality of Mexican medical facilities and would go back to the USA if they became seriously ill. Jim May, 74, a resident of the Casa de Ancianos, said he recently decided to move to Texas to be closer to Veterans Affairs hospitals.
The language barrier can be daunting, and Mexican food can be very different, some residents said.
Some residents said they miss home and find it hard to make friends with Mexican residents. “It’s a very nice place, but it’s lonesome,” said Polly Coull, 99, of Seminole, Fla., a resident at Alicia’s Convalescent Nursing Home in Ajijic.
Mexican entrepreneurs are doing their best to prepare for a tide of Americans. In the Baja Peninsula town of Ensenada, the Residencia Lourdes opened in 2003, offering care for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and senile dementia. The towns around Lake Chapala have at least five small retirement homes. Most of them opened in the last five years and house from one to 25 foreigners. The largest, Alicia’s Convalescent Nursing Home, consists of four renovated homes, one of them specializing in stroke victims and another for Alzheimer’s patients. Prices range from $1,000 to $1,500 a month and include everything except medicine and adult diapers. The rooms are outfitted in Mexican style, with murals, hand-carved beds, arched ceilings lined with brick and individual patios.
In other American enclaves, in-home healthcare services have sprung up to serve the retirees. In Rosarito, just south of the U.S. border, INCARE provides nursing aides to retirees starting at $8.33 an hour, less than half the cost of the same service in nearby San Diego.
Developers of independent living facilities for seniors are also beginning to look to Mexico. A Spanish-U.S. venture is building Sensara Vallarta, a 250-unit condominium complex aimed at Americans age 50 and older in the Pacific Coast resort of Puerto Vallarta. And in the northern city of Monterrey, El Legado is marketing itself as a “home resort” for seniors.
Academics and government officials are beginning to take notice. In March, the University of Texas at Austin held a forum for developers, hospital officials, insurance companies and policymakers to discuss health care for retirees in Mexico.
“With the right facilities in place, Mexico could give (American retirees) a better quality of life at a better price than they could find in the United States,” says Flavio Olivieri, a member of Tijuana’s Economic Development Council, which is seeking funding from Mexico’s federal government to build more retirement homes, including senior apartments. “We think this could be a very good business as these baby boomers reach retirement age,” he says.
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Get ready parents, it’s time for back to school in just a few weeks. This time of year can motivate you to get everything organized and ready for the hustle and bustle of the school year. Your schedule runs so much smoother when your house is in order, so use these tips to get everything ready to grab and run on those hectic school mornings.
You probably do this every year. You start out the school year organized and committed to keeping everything in order. But by the summer, you’ve become the pack rat that you dreaded seeing ever again. School work can pile up, end of the year projects come home, the winter clothes come off and it’s off to the pool all summer long. Well, it’s time to get moving again. Don’t buy a single back to school item until you have made a space for everything that will be coming in.
Each child will need a backpack, pencils, crayons, glue, lunchbox, paper and more. Most of these things will end up staying at the school, so really you need to get ready for what will come home. You especially need to be ready for the things that come home that must go back, or things that come home that you want to keep. You may decide to dedicate an area of your entryway or your coat closet to these items.
If you have a coat closet, you may be able to hang coats on one side and install shelves and hooks on the other side. Each child will need a backpack hook. You can also label containers or large folders for each child’s work that you want to keep. When you look through their folders, you can quickly file the keepsakes and trash the rest. Keep a small trash bin at the bottom of the closet for this task. It will keep you from piling up the work on your kitchen counter or coffee table.
Next, you will need to have homework supplies handy. Use a metal bill tray mounted to the wall to keep loose leaf paper, construction paper and composition books. Then place a magnetic pencil holder to the outside with plenty of sharpened pencils and pens for quick and easy use. A hanging basket is a great place to keep crayons, markers, glue, glitter, pencil sharpeners, erasers and sticky notes. Leave notes for your kids on their backpacks that say things like “dentist appointment at 1:00”, “bring snack for the class today” or anything that you need for them to remember. A dry erase calendar used only for school is also a good thing to keep inside the closet door.
If you need to make space in your closet for all of these things, hang your coats on space saving hangers. Clips and cascading hooks can save you a lot of space. When everything is organized and ready to go, you will be too.
About the Author
About the Author: Rick Miller is on the staff of Only Slimline Hangers, a leading online resource for slimlinehangers which are space saving hangers, non slip hangers and slim line hangers. For more information, please visit http://www.onlyslimlinehangers.com.
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