I Have to Laugh…

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But I AM grateful. Last week I had my crawl space inspected. They did a very thorough job (they were down there for over an hour, and I was beginning to worry if they’d discovered a portal to the lost city of Atlantas or something). They gave me a very good price (well, relatively speaking) for the maintenance and repair work, so I decided to utilize their company. (Quick aside: they had a level down there, and told me there was no foundation problem. That was a blessing, given that 2008 earthquake felt like a truck hit the side of the house!) So here’s where it got humorous. The office called this evening to set up the appointment for the work, and to arrange the financing. As soon as the guy hit “enter” my phone started going off. LifeLock sent me a message, telling me someone was opening an account in my name. Then my MasterCard dinged with the same message. Then my American Express sent me a message. And here comes the Visa message right after that!!! Darn my rotten luck, I cancelled my Discover card, or they would have been sending me a message, too! One second, five messages. As I said, it’s kind of funny that my phone lights up like a Christmas tree with all these notifications while I’m on the phone getting the approval. But it is most comforting to know that those “credit monitoring services” work. And they work very well. So if you have a credit card you should have the option of free credit monitoring (or they may just do it automatically). Take advantage of it. It does give peace of mind. As for the Listerine bottle pictured, it really has nothing to do with home improvements or credit scores or credit monitoring services, but I also had to laugh when I saw that in the store. Harry Nilsson’s song inspired a mouthwash flavor!!!! Here’s the Nilsson song: