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Renting appliances may be an option ofconvenience, especially if you don't want to lug anewly-bought refrigerator or bulky fan back to thehomestead once Aug. 15 rolls around. Check out theHarvard Student Agencies (HSA) Campus Store. HSAoffers deals for renting tall 30" fans ($15 plus$15 deposit), refrigerators ($55 plus $35deposit), microfridges ($105 plus $50 deposit),televisions and telephones. The Campus Store alsosells lamps ($9 and up), helpful for brighteninggloomy Yard accommodations...
...number of sites try to trick children into giving their names and addresses and worse. One unidentified "child-directed" site, according to the report, even asked each visiting kid "whether he or she has received gifts in the form of stock, cash, savings bonds, mutual funds or certificates of deposit." It also wanted to know if the parents owned mutual funds. To which I say, Any child who knows that is probably not a child...
...storable and exchangeable. (Just ask the thousands of Russian mafiosi who pay for nearly everything with crisp $100 bills.) And it holds up pretty well. If you're afraid of banks, you can still grab a coffee can, dig a hole in the backyard and have a pretty secure deposit. But paper cash does have some awful drawbacks. Lose it and it's gone; sit on it and it may lose its value overnight: think about what just happened in Asia, or earlier in South America...
Furthermore, many "invisible" elements of the banking system function much more efficiently in Canada than in the U.S. The payments systems, that labyrinthine set of collection depots, clearing houses and funds transfer networks that enable such mundane financial instruments as personal checks and automatic payroll deposit tend to run much more smoothly. For example, a check written by a New Yorker for a purchase in a store in Los Angeles store with its accounts in a Californian bank can take up to four days to clear. In contrast, a check written in Vancouver on a bank account in Halifax...
...paid for my deposit with a loan, just like the Federal Government did for the leaky-roofed shack of a Federal Budget we all currently occupy...