BY HELOISE
Another Superior TraceDear Heloise: Expanding on the graduation reward thoughts — I fill a plastic shoebox with: pens, coloured pencils, paper clips, rubber bands, scissors, a gap puncher, a sewing kit, a nail file, a stapler, erasers, a pencil sharpener, tape, glue, a screwdriver, index cards, dental floss, tweezers, a magnifying glass, Q-suggestions, actively playing playing cards, a laundry bag, a ruler, envelopes and a street map of the metropolis they are heading to. I also throw in a roll of quarters for laundry and sweet devices. — Marty K., Riverside, California
Marty, these are outstanding concepts and a fantastic present to give a pupil in higher school or school. When you are absent from household and money are constrained, it is awesome to have so many of these merchandise on hand. — Heloise
QUESTIONABLE Medical CostsExpensive Heloise: Soon after I was launched from the medical center, I kept getting expenses with the total of payment demanded, but no clarification. My son instructed me not to spend them without the need of an explanation. I’ve also experienced a number of other complications with my insurance policies supplier. What should I do? — Jean L., Royal Oak, Michigan
Jean, initial, do not spend for any invoice without the need of a in depth accounting of what that monthly bill is for. Be guaranteed to keep a document of all payments and billing in a file. Next, hardly ever pay out a health care bill until finally ALL your insurers have paid out their share. It does not matter if it’s Medicare or a secondary insurance provider. Hold out to fork out just after they have paid their share.
People make blunders. Make sure the health practitioner or hospital has your proper tackle and cellphone number. There possibly are other folks with the identical title as you, and you could be sent anyone else’s invoice accidentally. If the sum you are billed appears out of the ordinary realm of pricing, verify with your doctor’s team and demand from customers that your invoice be minimized or, at the really minimum, reexamined. — Heloise
TIMESHARE SCAMMERSDear Heloise: We just about missing $2,500 in a timeshare scam, and evidently, these men and women are taking gain of persons like us who want to provide their timeshare.
We went to a assembly the place they made available dinner and told absolutely everyone in the home how they have always gotten results from reselling timeshares that the homeowners no lengthier want to have. They cost an upfront charge of at the very least $2,500 and, in some circumstances, go as superior as $25,000! They really utilize the pressure, which manufactured us really suspicious, so we just still left.
Rather, we termed the resort management team and discovered out there was a deed-back again plan and a surrender system that we could use if we required. They also reported they would attempt to aid us out by hunting for a consumer for our timeshare. This morning, they termed us, and we experienced a purchaser who wants to acquire our timeshare.
The lesson below is: Do not allow any person cost you an upfront fee to sell your timeshare. If they are wining and eating you to acquire you about, there is almost certainly one thing incorrect. — Kathy and Mike W., Falmouth, Massachusetts
Protect YOUR PETPricey Visitors: With summer months heating up and temperatures growing previously mentioned typical, please acquire your animals inside until all around 7 or 8 in the night.
If, for some rationale, you just cannot get your pet inside make confident every day that your pet has a huge bowl of thoroughly clean, contemporary drinking water and food.
Make selected that there is adequate shade. You can fill a kiddies’ swimming pool with clean drinking water and go away it out in a shady place for them if they will use it.
At the time in a even though, you may perhaps want to board your pet at a pet daycare centre if your space gets very hot plenty of to be in the triple digits.
Don’t forget, a pet is element of the relatives. Deal with them effectively, and they’ll love you till the working day they die. — Heloise
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