pieces Of Advice: Don't Touch Crack

If you own a car there is a pretty good chance you have had a stone chip in your windshield at one time or another. Your annoyed by it and it is a minor distraction while driving. The small chip doesn't look pretty but it certainly doesn't reduce your cars mobility or functionality. It's not something you feel needs to be taken care of right away.

In my case the stone chip occured in November of this year right after I bought my car. I was extemely pissed off and told myself I was going to fix it right away but after a good nights sleep and a couple busy weeks and the upcomming launch of the Nintendo Wii it was on the bottom of my list of priorities.

Between the time of the incident and January I notice the crack got a little bit bigger most likely due to moisture freezing in the crack. This should have been enough to get me worried enough to get me to my nearest auto glass specialist but i figured I could hold out a little longer after all it wasn't covering the entire windsheild.

Wendsday of this week the weather was nice enough and I decided to clean my car. As I was washing the inside of the windshield I notice the crack was getting bigger. Now with the crack being about an inch I figured it was time to fix the problem.

I decided to wait until saturday, which would be today, as I work full time and didn't want to loose my attendance bonus at work. The crack grew about another half inch as I was driving home yesterday.

Today I went to my freindly neiborhood auto glass repair shop. I showed them the crack and they told me there was a pretty good chance the crack would get bigger as they were trying to repair it. I didn't like this at all. I went home and phoned around to check with other auto glass specialists. The general consensis was the same. as I was driving back to the location of the original buisness my windsheid crack tripled in size....

There is now NO chance of repair it will have to be replaced! The cost of this will be upwards of $260 which was about the same cost as my Nintendo Wii. If I would have gotten the problem when it had happened It would have only cost me $35 at my local auto glass repair shop.

Lessons Learned:
Get your head out of your ass! Small problems become big problems if you ignore them.

If you currently have this minor problem with your windshield I stongly suggest you fix it. It may not seem important but a small chip can quickly turn into a full window spanning crack.

Auto glass buisnesses are usually open from 9 to 5 and they are usually open Monday to Saturday. The cost to repair ranges from about $25 to $50 Most of the major shops are walk in and don't require an appointment. This means you can get your chip fixed shortly after the problem occurs.

If you wait vibrations, pressure, moisture or temperature could cause the crack to spread. It may happen in small incriments or suddenly all at once. If you let the crack get over an inch it could be too late to fix it.

pieces Of Advice: Credit Where Credit Is Due

I'm still a pretty young guy and like many young people I like to spend my money. The big problem with this is sometimes to get what I need I'm am forced to spend money I don't have.

This mentality is what keeps the economy going. You have a job you work hard, you have your necessary expenses, you pay your bills and on top of that you deserve to have a little fun.

Eventually you decide you want to buy a car or a home and you can spend more than you have by simply using credit. Spending money you don't have then means you are working for the banks or credit companies until you can pay off your debt. This means you are getting less for your money in order to suit convenience. There is nothing wrong with doing this however. For example, your not going to save so you can buy a house twenty years from now when you need to live in it now. Your not going to wait to get a car if you need one to get to work. Borrowing money so you can live better is pretty much a fact of life for almost everyone.

The problem is after you have your vehicle a home, pay the bills buy necessities such as food and clothes people still feel they deserve to spend their money on extras. This is by no means impossible for most people. There are some people that make enough so they don't even really have to think about it. Almost anyone can easily get a credit card and pretty much buy any extras they want.

This can be big trouble for a lot of young adults. If your spending money on top of the money you already don't have your going to find yourself putting off some of the things you need in order to pay your debts. Perhaps stop paying the bills for awhile. Skip a meal or two. This is all fine and good if your single but what if you already have a family? Where could you possibly cut expenses? Can you afford to loose what you needed the credit for in the first place?

What you need to do is change your way of thinking. You need to realize although you deserve to spend the money you have earned you do not deserve to spend money you don't have on things you don't need! If you do, your not working for yourself, your working for credit companies. You are actually working against yourself.

But don't take my word for it. It's your life you can make your own mistakes. Just remember even a hippie has enough sense not to spend money he doesn't have.

Here I Am!

As you all know the internet is a series of tubes. It is apparent from the number of people with myspace accounts that everyone is becoming bored. It seems to me that the internet needs a hero. Someone with infinite knowlage. Someone plugged in to the "in the now" lifestyle. Someone to show you the way. Unfortunately I don't know who he is or how to reach him... so to pass the time I'll try to to entertain you.