My wife doesn’t accept a bad customer experience. She’s going to get what she paid for, and if she believes she’s been deprived from the value she deserves in any way, shape, or form, somebody is going to hear about it. This usually results … [Read more...] about Customer Service: A Little Kindness Goes A Long Way
It's been an interesting week as a parent in the CleverDude household. Last weekend I was impressed by my son's discovery that store brand products can be just as good as more expensive products. But then I was frustrated by his lack of … [Read more...] about Clever Posts Of The Week – September 26th
With school supplies purchased, lunch account funded, and new clothes purchased and neatly hung up in the closet or put away into dresser drawers, I thought we had passed the hump of extra spending usually associated with the start of a new school … [Read more...] about I Need a Teenager Maintenance Fund
My son is your typical high school sophomore. Social and peer pressure tells him that the brand name of his sports equipment, and where he buys his clothes and other products he uses matters. As an adult I know better, but as a kid I was the same … [Read more...] about The Night My Son Discovered Generic Soda
It's supposed to be a beautiful weekend here in the Midwest, so time to get some outside projects done. One of those projects will be to mow and trim the lawn and then put down the fall application of fertilizer. I had contemplated hiring a service … [Read more...] about Clever Posts Of The week – September 19th
Image courtesy of Baitong333 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net “We gotta go to the doctor,†my wife said as she hung up the phone. The phone call had been from my sister-in-law, who's family had stayed with us the previous weekend, informing us that … [Read more...] about Do You Understand Your Medical Insurance Explanation Of Benefits Statements?
