Cash Strapped Stuff

Texting Without Phones

These days, most of public places, restaurants, shopping malls, stores have free wifi and at home or work, definitely wifi exists. We never have our texting feature turned on on our phones, we don’t need texting. I’m sure when our kids get older, they will need them and then, we will have to spend $30/month

Traffic Tickets – Do We Really Need Them?

These days, the traffic tickets can cause a major cash strapped problem because they’re expensive to pay, costly even if taking school option and extremely time consuming. 1. California Stops: What the heck is that? rolling stops, are people trying to save their brakes or just want to save 5 seconds to make a full

Cable TV – Do We Really Need Them?

We live in the central bay area, we can get TV over the air, therefore, we don’t really subscribe any cable TV. The reception is great for us to get all the major channels for news and shows that we like: all the CSI, we watch mostly PBS for the kids early in the morning

Smart Phones-Do We Really Need Them?

Smart phones – Android – i- phones, most people seem to have them these days. We upgraded our phones a few months back, we’re the old fashion types – plain phones, NO text, No Data, we turned off everything and we’re still paying 3 phones for the family $76 a month. I wanted to get

Gamble With Diamond Lane

Every morning we take car pool lane to work, and every few days, we see these single drivers driving in the car pool lane and some did get caught by the CHPs. These drivers seem to like to gamble with the $371 fine if get caught. I don’t know if it’s worth the time, the