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All season tires or Snow tires

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Usually at this time of year here in Toronto we’d be seeing huge snow storms at least once a week. We’ve been quite fortunate so far though and haven’t had any snow. That’s unbelievable. I’m sure our luck won’t hold and that it will suddenly turn very cold and we’ll have a major storm, but until that time I’m quite happy to enjoy the weather.

When it does snow though I’ll have to drive in it and I don’t like driving around without a good set of tires on my car in the winter. This article about winter snow tires that I read on Caroom.us brings up some important information as to why having a set of real winter tires is important.

Many people buy All Season Tires year in and year out, and while this is ok in some places, it’s not suitable in others. I’ve seen far too many cars wipe out near and in front of my house that have all season tires on – old and usually balding to not believe that everyone living in cold weather areas that get a fair amount of snow should use winter tires. Read Caroom.us article to get even more information as to why winter tires are important and economical. Actually, the site appears to have a number of good auto related articles that are easy to read and not just for the automotive buff.

I think one of the reasons why people in Toronto use all season tires most of the time is because our winters have become quite mild in the last 10 years or so. We do get snow most years but it melts for the most part within a day or two. So people try to “get by” on all season tires. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if some “got by” using summer tires year round. Not safe, but when you can’t count on snow and frequent snow storms I guess you do that.






Like Spring

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Wordless Wednesday

Daffodil White

Considering that it’s January the weather here’s been very nice. It’s been above zero, often well above freezing and so far we really haven’t had any snow. Dare I say, it’s almost spring like? Yes – the temperatures have been more like the end of March, beginning of April. I’d love it if it would stay this way until April and then warm even more. A winterless winter.

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Get free products and cash with MutualWin

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Now here’s an interesting and new way to earn some money while you shop for deals on the internet. MutualWin is a site that searches the internet for bargains so that it’s customers can have huge savings on products.

How would you use MutualWin? Well say you’ve come across an offer for a free product, but the only way to get the free product is to get one or more friends to sign up for the service under you. Now, not everyone is good at talking their friends into purchasing products, some find it distasteful and others just don’t know who might want such a service. Well, now you can go to MutualWin and post about the deal that you’ve found. Other interested members can sign up for such and such a service under you and you’ll get your free product and with any luck they’ll be on their way to getting a free product to when they do the same thing to get referrals under them.

You can use MutualWin with any of these types of deals- Refer a friend, referral deals, referral deal, referral bonus, referrals and get others to help you get free products or cash or whatever the referral happens to be for. Try it out. It sounds like an interesting idea.

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