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Winter Monitoring Period is Here - Start Saving Water to Lower Your Sewer Bill!**
Need to slim down that sewer bill? Just get skinny during the holidays! It’s easy! Cutting down on your water usage during San Diego’s Winter Monitoring Period can significantly trim down your bill for the whole year! It isn’t a sham! There is no purchase necessary! Just let me explain how…
Used Cell Phones: Turning spare cell phones into money
Anyone stopped you on the street and asked "do you have a used cell phone that you can spare"? The embarrassing answer is probably "yes". Don't be embarrassed any more. Turn that spare phone into money. And if you need to buy a cell phone but can't get the subsidized prices offered by the wireless carriers (usually because you are in mid-contract and lost or ruined your phone) then buy a "preloved" phone and save.
AT&T's Basic Phone Service -- A big deal about not such a great deal
About five years ago,we regaled you with hints and suggestions about how to best shop for landline services. Here's our new advice...............don't buy landline phone services. The duh-regulators who sought to inject competition in the phone industry fumbled the ball mightily when it comes to local (landline) phone service. Prices appear on the verge of skyrocketing in 2011. The choices for residential customers aren't good. But there are choices.
Discover Card Lowered Interest Rate for Customer
A UCAN member wants you to know that his call to Discover Card resulted in lowering his credit card interest rate. Has Discover Card become humane and will others follow? Read on.
Money for Electricity: PUC's one-time bill assistance program
With the summer heat in full swing, relief in any sense of the word is welcome. Popsicples, otter pops, ice cream cones, sea breezes, and air conditioning provide respite in sweltering summer days. However, the bill for only one of these cooling concoctions is eligible for the California Public Utility Commission's (PUC) new program. Hint--you won't be seeing Mike Peevey driving an ice cream truck around town.
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