Blog Action Day is quickly approaching. It is a day picked by the Action Blog where bloggers will address issues related to the environment. They’ve chosen October 15 as the day all participants should post about environmental issues.

If you don’t have a blog, or if you don’t feel it will be seen, there are other ways to participate. They also ask that you donate your day’s earnings on October 15 to one of their ‘official’ charities. On this day I’ll probably donate anything my blog makes along with accepting donations (even pennies) from my readers and sending them to The Nature Conservancy.

Or maybe, if you’re like me, and you don’t really understand the issue well enough to write on it, you can also just post about the cause to help spread the word. Maybe someone who reads your blog can offer their own blog on the topic. I will try my best to write about an environmental concern on the 15th, so please come back and look for it.

I’m about to pay off my car soon, I’m pretty excited. It looks like this pro blogging thing is helping me make that extra so I can pay it off in September or October. I really wish I could pay it off in September and maybe get the title for my birthday, wouldn’t that be neat?

I love Volkswagens and I love the Jettas (before the redesign in ‘05). My Jetta is the cutest car in the world. Sure, I’d like it to be grey, but when you buy a car the day they come out you get what colors they have. It’s black, so every scratch and all the dirt shows up really well. So wonderful.

My car has been making some noises ever since I got it. There’s this noise in the front where when you turn the wheel and back up it POPs and it’s kinda scary. But it’s been doing it for years, so I guess it’s nothing. And the tires are expensive, they go fast. It’s like $900 to replace them every 30k miles. The arm rest has fallen apart a couple of times, but now that my short little warranty is over, I have to pay like $160 to fix it and it’s just not worth it. Maybe once it’s paid off.

I totally recommend buying a used Volkswagen. There’s so many perks over buying new. Let someone else pay the price to ship it here. And let them go through the first year of stuff going wrong. I think they put parts on the cars that don’t work so well and then the after market parts are better. Is that backwards? And I love the keys. The laser cut keys with the chip inside help to make sure no one can just make a copy of your key. The new designs are ugly, so you’re better off buying used cars nowadays.

But make sure you go to a Volkswagen dealer, because other dealerships won’t put the care into inspecting the cars like VW will. Their techs are trained on Volkswagens so they know them better than anyone else.

I have a dream that one day the whole world will ride around in VW cars!

I wrote previously on EPay as a new Paypal alternative to send and receive money online. I have a lot of trust in Paypal and I’m a very loyal person, but the more I learn about EPay the more interest I gain. One of the big selling points, for me, is the ability to earn $150 per person you refer or $250 if it’s a merchant. With Paypal, you make $1 every time they make $200 if it’s a business account. That’s not too exciting to me, unless I refer some multimillion dollar company selling completely through Paypal.

Another selling point on EPay is their debit card. I love the idea of being able to access my money now, rather than in a week or two when it finally makes it to my bank account. I don’t like my money being stuck in limbo, so it is a definite must for me. Their EPay debit card has the Master Card logo, enabling you to use it any time, any where. The debit card does have a one time fee of $89 and a monthly fee of $4.95. A little much for me, personally.

They also offer pre-paid credit cards for those with less than perfect credit. Or for those out there who have kids and want to give them a card to pay for things without the open limits. I know I prefer to give my kids a reloadable prepaid card to keep with them because if they lose it you can replace it easily and the money isn’t lost forever. Actually, it works well for my mom, too, because every once in a while she needs to borrow some money and I have no way to get it there fast.

Pretty soon I think it will be a new standard for sending money online. Epay will soon be an option like Paypal, Moneybookers, and E-Gold when you get paid for your paid posts, reading emails, and online surveys.

A very basic need for the pro blogger, or any blogger, is webhosting. You need somewhere to put your blog that has stability. Every moment your site is down could be costing you in advertising fees, so you need to make sure you have a host that will stay up as much as possible. The better hosting companies usually cost a bit more, so it’s helpful to look around online for discounts or coupons offered through other websites.

Deal Locker has coupons and promo codes for many websites, including a few hosting companies. You can even find a few for my company, E-Starr. Or maybe you’re in the market for a new computer, I know I am. You’ll even find some Dell coupons as well. And while you’re sitting there working so very hard writing up wonderful reviews and finding good placement for your adverts, order some pizza from Papa John’s. They have plenty of big name websites and smaller ones, too. You can probably find almost anything you’re looking for.

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Their shopping tips and coupon blog is another way to help you save even more. This site is like your own personal shopping consultant. Visit the blog for ideas like back to school shopping and for deals you might not otherwise know of, like the free Orange Julius samples. Wish I’d known about that one, it just ended today! I’ve never tried Orange Julius but I’ve always wanted to. I’ve bookmarked their Store Giveaways category because it’s just awesome.