There are many places in the world that I’ve always been interested in traveling to. Out of those places, there is really only one that I would be willing to live in. Hawaii is an amazing series of islands that makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside it’s unreal. Based on recent real estate reports, Hawaii real estate is booming right now. Kauai real estate is very popular and for a rather valid reason. The island is absolutely gorgeous and most of the homes for sale right now are within only a few miles, and less, of an ocean view. If anyone has ever seen the beautiful crystal blue waters of Hawaii, you’d understand my yearning to get there.

If you’re just looking for a vacation home, than the Big Island real estate is really the place to look. The homes aren’t that large but they’re only in the $80,000 range. You don’t need to own a multi million dollar home to live in Hawaii, sites like hawaiilife.com prove this.

I did some surfing around this site and I found it to be fairly interesting. HawaiiLife.com is a Hawaii real estate search engine that maps all of the available properties for sale through the Hawaii MLS using Google maps. In June 2007 they’ll be adding Maui and Oahu to their listings. I’d say it’s a site worth checking out. It’s nicely designed, they offer very valuable information, as well as aerial views of the home through Google Maps, it’s not a bad idea to keep it as a resource for your next look into Hawaii real estate.

I get a lot of mixed comments in regards to paid blogging. Right now there are bloggers tapped into at least 15 paid-to-blog websites and they’re all making a solid full time income every single month, top earners around the ‘net have brought in over $20,000 in the last six months, that’s $40,000 a year. Not many people can do that from home. A lot of paid bloggers are stay at home moms, they typically use their money to help with the bills. There are a lot of college students looking to make some money considering their class schedules don’t allow time for anything more than a part time job, if that.

If you wish to monetize your blog, there’s really nothing wrong with it. Yes, there are people who go a little overboard with posts. I’ve noticed people spewing completely unimportant/useless entries in between their paid posts just to make it look as though they have an active life. While I do post regularly (depending on time, at least) I make it a point to talk about things that are actually happening around me. I’m not spewing garbage for the sake of filling in the 50 word minimum between entries.

Some may argue that paid blogging is based on bias opinion. Frankly, if I don’t like a product I’m not going to take the offer just to get some cash for it. There are many offers on every paid-to-blog site I’m involved with that I’ve completely over-looked because their topics were uninteresting to me. Yes, there are people who post just to post and this isn’t anything that I’m going to deny – but it’s not just about making money. Users (before paid-blogging) spoke about products, recommending items to many people throughout the years. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being paid for it. That’s exactly what advertising is meant for.

No matter who you are or how much money you make, you most likely have a cell phone. Just because you don’t have a month-to-month plan (pre-paid) doesn’t mean that you aren’t a valued customer for companies like Nextel, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile.

It’s easy to get your hands on cell phones, and finding sites with resources about these phones is also pretty easy as well. Any information that you could possibly be looking for, you can find on sites like wirefly.com. They offer many different phones and many different companies, Nextel phones, Sprint cell phones, Verizon, T-mobile, it doesn’t matter who you’re interested in going through. They give you all of the resources you need so that you can go out and choose the best phone for you.

I’m personally a fan of T-Mobile, while Verizon has a few more areas of coverage (in NY at least), T-mobile works very well for me down here in Delmarva too. They offer very cool phones with your plans. The one I can say I want the most is the Sidekick. I know it seems kind of ‘old-school’ but it’s also a pretty solid little phone, especially if you’re heavy into text messaging – the pull out keyboard really makes it easier to type.

My sister has mainly had Nextel phones, but they’ve also merged with Sprint?Ǭ† so either one of them is basically like going through the same company. They offer you many different phones, the majority of which offer push-to-talk because it seems that walkie-talkies (while they cost more monthly) are really a bit more effective – especially for those who don’t really like spending much time on the phone. I think, safety wise, having a push-to-talk phone is much better while driving. You don’t have to hold it up to your ear and since most people hold their phones up to their mouths on speakerphone anyway – it just seems like an ok thing to do. Even though in the long run I prefer the people driving around me to have a headset.

Blue tooth headsets are pretty popular, I’m not sure why more people don’t have them. Wirefly.com offers free blue tooth headsets with some of the phones phones ordered through them. They’ve also got cash-back rebates, deals on upgrades, free shipping, and a huge database of phones and plans that you can search through to make sure all of your needs have been met. It’s a pretty nifty site, you should check it out.