For someone with diabetes, like me, life insurance can be very expensive. And with my husband being 12 years older than me, our budget is hit twice as hard! But Advantage Term Life quoted life insurance for me starting at less than $25 a month. I’m impressed!

Like other insurance Websites, Advantage Term Life offers a free online quote form, but unlike other sites, their form pulls up quotes from several companies so you can compare rates then select the company you want to apply to.

And Advantage Term Life doesn’t discriminate against those with diabetes, smokers, or those who are overweight (and who isn’t?).

Anyway, if you’re looking for insurance, give them a try. I’m going to check with hubby and see which company he wants to go with, but so far these are the best life insurance rates I’ve found yet.

If you’re like me, when you begin searching for life insurance, or another something similar, you prefer a quick online quote to having an agent call and try to sell you something. There’s a site that will provide that very thing–and it’s free.

Advantage Term Life lets you enter some basic information like your name, birth date, and general health condition, along with the amount of insurance you’d like on their insurance quote page, then returns a list of several companies and their estimated monthly (or annual) payments for that insurance. I’ve tried similar insurance quote sites before and was very surprised at how easy this one was to use!

In addition, they offer quotes for smokers, and explains how smoking influences insurance rates, as well as mortgage coverage, key man and even groups. Some of these were terms I had never even seen mentioned on an insurance website. So, you can see, it’s a very informative and educational site.

Anyway, if this is something you’re looking for, Advantage Term Life is impressive. Take a look.

A few weeks ago, my husband’s 1998 Buick broke down on the Interstate. Scary!! But thank the Lord, he was able to safely maneuver it to the side of the road and call a tow truck. We still don’t have it running. Our son fixed something that was messed up on it, but that didn’t fix it completely so Greg has been afraid to drive it (and I agree).

Shortly after that, the alternator on his work van went out and stranded him – of all places – on the Interstate. He had it towed, and he and his brother replaced the alternator. Then, about a week later, the computer went out on the same van. You guessed it… stranding him on the side of the Interstate!

As you can imagine, we’ve shelled out a small fortune in vehicle repairs lately. Now my car is acting up! We think it’s the computer on that one, too. Needless to say, we’ve begun thinking about a new car.

The problem is, we’re getting gun shy. Since neither Greg nor I are overly confident about strolling into a dealer to buy a new vehicle, we need to know more about any vehicle we might consider. We’re hoping The Car Connection can help.

The Car Connection offers reviews on just about every make or model car, truck or SUV from the Chevy Silverado review to the Dodge Charger, or from the Honda Element to anything made by Toyota.

We really hadn’t planned to buy another vehicle right now. And we may end up holding out awhile longer. But it’s nice to know we can easily find a review on any car we’re interested in. I just hope the vehicles we have will hold out until we make it into the dealer.

You may remember that we moved recently. Since we moved about two and a half hours from our home in Knoxville, we had to – of course – change cable companies. We ended up going with our local phone company who provides DSL as well as digital cable, but I wish now I had gone with Direct TV!

This digital cable we have is terrible. We got the largest package they offer and still only have about 120 channels. And the majority of them are sports or news. I’m a movie fan. So I really struggle to find something I want to watch.

And the service seems slow to respond. I’ve had satellite in the past and been very pleased with it. I know the Direct TV service is faster.

Of course, after I signed up for this cable, I did a little research and found a Direct TV System site that offers some great deals! (Why didn’t I check beforehand?) They offer a package with over 200 channels for about what I’m paying for my 120 lousy channels. Live and learn.

I have to say… I’ll probably change providers before long and go with the satellite again. I don’t spend a lot of time watching TV, but when I do sit down to watch it, I’d like to actually have a few choices.