Is the Law of Attraction That Important?

I was just reading this article about the Law of Attraction and it made really think.  Not so much about the post itself but one of the commenters Charles.  It’s all very nice to be able to get all the things that we want in life such as a new car or a second home in the sun.  But what is the point at the end of the day.  It’s like the Keef Hartley song, “You can’t take it with you.”  I really think we need to be more appreciative of what we’ve got and learn to be happy.  Yeah sure, so I’d like some nice things but I don’t see the point in owning 2008 Toyota Tundra SR5 4×2 when I can just drive around in my little jalopy which, for the time being, is holding up quite nicely.

Are People Really Stealing Petrol?

I find this quite bizarre, but apparently people are stealing gas from people’s cars according to the NY Post.  People are filling their cars up and then when they go to use their cars later they find ther’s no petrol left.  Wow, what sort of world do we live in?  I think I remember hearing about this happening when there was the big petrol crisis some years ago but I’m not sure how this is done.  I know that people can siphon but I don’t understand how the get the petrol cap off.

Perhaps there are some people who forget to actually use their key to lock their petrol tank and so there are theives just going around having a feel to see if they can find any that are unlocked.  I’m not really all that sure.  Anyway, you can buy locking gas caps that will solve this problem.  Don’t understand why anyone would actually need to buy one of these because my car already has a lock.  Who knows…

Some Interesting Recyling Ideas

I have generally been browsing around the internet and came accross this really cool website called Life Hackery. It’s the sort of website that you can easily get sucked into reading and before you know it three hours have passed! Anyway, I particularly love this post 99 Extraordinary, Creative and Unusual Uses for Ordinary and Everyday Objects.

I used to be a design student and one of the projects we had was to design an item made form recylced products. The one I made was a light made from car speakers but I have to admit that I really prefer many of the items listed on this post. I’m not sure which one I like best, perhaps the chopsticks. I’m not sure.

Other articles I like are 21 Amazing Alternate Uses for Vodka and 7 More Garbage Gardening Tips.

Our Fault or The Bank?

Sometimes I wonder why I got into debt. Is it me or is it the banks? I used to get lots of phonecalls asking me if I wanted to take out a loan for a car, holiday or whatever I wanted. They talked a good line about how there were special rate interest loans available. It just sounded so great. Doh! Stupid me!

Of course, banks have all their staff specially trained to sell products. Of course, credit cards, car loan, mortgages and payday loans are all products. Once for my birthday I even got sent a birthday card from my bank once. I thought that was quite nice. On the front is said “this birthday have your cake and eat it”. Inside the card said “with a special rate birthday loan”.

It’s important to learn the differnce between good and bad debt as you’ll learn in this video.