Car Donation — Reduce Your Taxes

It’s End Of The Year — time for the last minute donations to take something off of this year’s taxes! Make a Car Donation!

The Internet is a great way to find a charity that will accept your old car &mdaash; or boat — The process makes it easy to get rid of that old car and take a donation, instead of just trading it in at the dealership.

Basically, the process is that you identify the organization to whom you can make a tax-deductible donation. Then, you contact them. They arrange and pay for a tow truck to pick up the vehicle, if it does not run. You sign the title over to them.

Once they get the vehicle, they almost always dispose of the vehicle via a reselling or auction process.

Be sure to talk with your tax advisor and/or check the tax laws closely to identify the docuementation you will need to support your deduction. This is especially important with respect to the valuation of the donation, since you are donating a “thing,” not money.

Also, be sure to take pictures of the vehicle before you donate it in order to be able to prove the condition (or at least how it looks).

Carolyn Schweitzer has written an interesting article The Gifts We Give Our Dogs.

Quoted from the article’s introduction:

Whoever coined the phrase, “It’s a Dog’s Life” wasn’t familiar with 21st century dogs. Time was when the average canine slept outside, ate whatever scraps of food were tossed his way, and if he was lucky, was thrown the occasional bone. He was even expected to earn his keep!

Carolyn hits the nail on the head with this insightful article. Wondering what to get your Dog?
Check out The Gifts We Give Our Dogs

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Christmas and New Year’s. Times of Joy.

Times of Family.
Times of Quiet.
Times of Stress.
Times of Solitude.

And, Times of Depression.

In his article, Wayne F. Perkins offers us some Tips to Reduce Holiday Depression for this holday season.

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Christmas is almost here, and we are almost out of shopping time. For many of us, the hardest thing to do is to pick out a suitable gift.

Here are a few suggestions, from the Dream Toy of the Month section of my TerryStockdale.com web site:

• the hottest gift this Christmas, the new iPod Nano MP3 music player,
  in black or white, 4GB or 6GB;
• the Motorola Razr Cell Phone, also available in black for Cingular customers;
• a Parks Light Saber, high-quality Star Wars-type Replica Light Saber, machined from stainless steel or aircraft aluminum;
• a Star Wars Build Your Own Light Saber Kit;
• a 50-inch Plasma Television for the sports fan or movie fan of the house (including YOURSELF!);
• the Sony Playstation PSP portable game system that plays movies, too;
• Rancilio Silvia Espresso Machine;
• the Canon Digital Rebel XT 8MP Digital SLR Camera;
• a Crucial 1GB CompactFlash, with Rebate, for digital cameras and MP3 players;

For a less-expensive gift for a friend, relative or business contact:

• all-natural toffee, covered with chocolate, from Greenmar Toffee;
• a downloadable anti-spyware program (CounterSpy) for your favorite computer novice or experienced computer user ;
• Click2PDF, a PDF file creator that lets you “print” a PDF file from any computer application that can print;
• web hosting for their own web site, including a free domain name;
• DELIGHT YOUR COFFEE LOVER- Receive illy�s catalog + special offers for coffee gifts, machines, and cup collections;
• Click Here for Star Wars Movie Prop Replicas, Statues, Collectible Pins and More;

Don’t forget, if you are getting or giving a new computer for Christmas or for any other holiday, read my computer buying tips and computer security tips.

Check out ComputerForChristmas.com for computer buying tips and computer purchase strategies.

Since the Internet is not a safe place, I also recommend the antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall and anti-spam software that you should use to protect your computer.

Satellite Radio. I first heard of it several years ago, as I know you did, too. The initial concept was a hard-wired unit in the car for an exhorbitant price and monthly charge.

How the times have changed! I have several friends who have gone the satellite radio route, whether they live in big cities or small towns.

One of the most interesting ideas is being able to actually listen to the station that I want to, even if I’m in the middle of nowhere, on the Interstate, 300 miles from home.

Combine that with a portable model that lets you carry your satellite radio receiver into the house and plug it into your stereo/hometheater system, and you have a big winner. Check it out.

Getting a new computer? Check my new web page new computer setup tips.

The article has computer buying tips, tips for most economical memory purchases, and recommendations for free and commercial anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and firewall programs.

As you know some of the best ways to get traffic to your site is through the search engines. And as you know search engines love blogs.

If you know how to use blogs you can easily get more traffic to your website just by posting your keywords in the title and having your blogs indexed.

Other ways to get traffic to your site is to use popular free traffic exchanges. They come in many forms such as start (homepage) exchanges, safelists (opt in email ads), toolbar ads such as instantbuzz.com and forums such as the free advertising forum.

If you are looking to kill 2 birds with one stone, you can advertise for free on a new BLOG that actually allows you to place your ads for free on their site.

The reason this is good because you get all the benefits of placing your ads on a BLOG and you all get to advertise for free.

Most people would look at this as a no brainer. Although most webmaster do not like people to advertise on the blogs, this site was made just for that.

It is free to join and thousands are flocking to this service to drive huge traffic to their sites in just days by simply posting one little ad on their home page.

Anyone looking to increase their profits should look into the
Free Advertising Blog!

Sign up for free, and you can post one ad per week. But, pay attention and be ready — there is a special one-time offer. If you upgrade to the Elite membership level, you will be able to post 2x per day, 5000 characters including HTML — AND you get has some special bonuses, too.

If you have a on-line business of any kind, or even a web site that you want to get higher Google rankings and more traffic, check out the Free Advertising Blog!

New and updated pages this week at Terry’s Computer Tips.com: