Leahs Cafe

After a few weeks of trying to get quotations from the contractors referred by friends. I get frustrated and decided to do something about it today. I drove around the neighborhood, spotted a house that undergoing renovation, parked my car, went in and asked to speak with their boss.

The boss was not there but he was nearby, so they gave me his phone number, I called him and he appeared at my door within 10 minutes. He took the measurement and gave me a quotation. Apart from the efficiency, his price is less than half of what the other contractor quoted me!! Guess whether we are going to hire him? LOL

It seems like this people do not have a standard price and just simply charge what they fancy. We have gotten four quotations so far, one of them is over 2000, two are in the range of 1600, and the one that we decided to hire is below 1000, go figure. Well, it certainly pays to compare and shop around.

When hubby told me how much he is paying for his car insurance, I nearly fainted. I am pretty sure he is paying way too much and there are ways he can find a better deal if he shops around. He just didn’t bother to ask for insurance quotes or compare car insurance from a few places to get the best deal. He probably just took the first thing that he stumbled upon and never even read the small prints. That’s my man, who find number crunching too challenging a task.

We have a lot of bills already in our life, and paying for car insurance that cost a bit more is not high on our priorities list. Anyway, to be a smart consumer, we should always compare and shop around to get better deal. The Internet certainly does make it easier for that. We can check out insurance comparison sites that have done all the leg work for us.

We no longer have to make a dozen calls to all the insurance companies or brokers asking them to send quotes one by one. It’s easy to find affordable, cheap car insurance that’s still of the same quality as that policy you’re paying more for. Check out the links and start saving yourself some money on your auto insurance. And I told hubby, for the next renewal, getting car insurance will be my job.

I have not gotten out of the door since yesterday. I cook whatever leftover in the fridge for lunch and ate the same for dinner. I read all the blog entries in the Google reader but didn’t jump out to comment. Not in a very social mode, that’s for sure !