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5 Ways to Save Money for Your Vacation

These days it seems harder and harder to save for your or your family’s vacation, here are 5 easy ways to save:

1. Open a high interest savings account that you have limited availability to just for your vacation. An example is Capital One 360 (formerly ING) Savings account. Have a small amount on payday auto-debited into this account. (Even $10 or $20 a paycheck really adds up.)

2. Just like when you were a kid, a simple way to save is by having a change jar. Every day throw the change in your pocket into a jar, also get your kids involved they will get excited about saving for the vacation and start looking for change everywhere. Every few months take it to the bank then transfer the savings into your vacation fund.

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Rick Mereki Encourages Us To Move, Learn and Eat.

In 2008, “Dacing Matt” Harding became a YouTube sensation with his videos showcasing both his arguable dancing abilities and his amazing travels.  His first video was posted in 2005 as a result from his 6 month, 17 country backpacking trip as a departure from his game developer desk job.  Currently his video has 39 million views and has sparked plenty of copycats.

Now, 2011 brings us Rick Mereki, who is an Australian filmmaker commissioned by the student travel agency STA Australia, has created a series of three one minute long videos in his campaign “Move, Learn and Eat.”  Mereki’s videos, with the help of his buddies Tim White and Andrew Lees, will have you itching with the travel bug before the end of the first clip.

Filmed in 11 countries over a span of 6 weeks, these videos are sure to inspire anyone to do as the title suggests – move, learn and eat.

Our Building is Expanding! Thoughts from the IT Guru.

Building Expansion Project

Bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better, but in my company’s case it does! Over the last five years since we first moved into our new building, I have seen our company grow by leaps and bounds. Some of the people that I have been working with have become my good friends. To state a cliché, we really are like a “family” of sorts.

One of the things that are very important here is customer service. It is stressed to the limit–then stressed some more. I know that most of our staff members try very hard to go that extra mile for their customers. I hear them do it every day.Continue reading