Unless you’re lucky enough to live in part of the world that gets warm sunshine all year round, you’ve potentially resigned yourself to the fact that you’re going to either spend part of the year without a tan, or else you’re going tohave to keep up frequent trips to a tanning shop. Unlike tanning using the sun’s rays, it costs money to tan artificially. Would it be worth your while to search for a good, used tanning bed so that you could tan at home and save both money and time?
Even at a rate of just $30 each month for unlimited tanning, if you take into consideration your gas, the wear on your vehicle, and the time you spend, you will end up essentially spending about $65 a month or a mean of $1,000 a year, and that’s if you’re not paying even increased rates. None of that money is being spent for tangible items, so it is just money out the door. If you purchase a used tanning bed, however, you will have a machine that will run for a few years which you can buy for as little as $500, and a little additional for utilities and replacement lights.
Used tanning beds are available on eBay and many other online shops where you will find significant savings over the price of new beds. A lot will depend on the model year of the bed, the amount of time it has been utilized, and the condition it is in. You will be ready to find beds that people just plain failed to like for whatever reasons, and which are in almost new condition.
One of the points to think about when buying a used tanning bed online is the locale of the bed. Many places, including eBay auctions, will require you to pick the bed up and haul it to your home yourself. If you live close enough and own a truck, this shouldn’t present a hardship. You also need the bed you’re considering to be close enough so that you can make a trip to inspect the bed prior to buying it. Otherwise you’re purchasing a fairly high-ticket item based totally on what the seller tells you which isn’t always the best idea.
If you wish to keep your tan throughout the year and hate the high cost and inconvenience of a tanning salon, you might wish to consider buying a used tanning bed. You will finish up with plenty of value for the money while having the ability to pop into the bed any time you like without needing to leave the comforts of your own home.
I’m sure we’re all aware of Googles push to use site speed in their algorithm, so I thought you’d find this method to speed up your site by 3 to 4 times using a couple of lines of code interesting. I think it’ll work with any site, but it’s particularly useful if you’re using a cumbersome CMS like Wordpress (I think this site is Wordpress?). Essentially if your host has zlib compression enabled you can add 2 lines of code above the document type in your header.php, and when a visitors browser calls the pages, your server will automatically compress them and send the compressed file to their browser. I don’t want to go into too much detail here, so if you search for it in Google you should find various sites with instructions. I’ve been testing it with some of my sites (it takes a couple of minutes to add the code), and it does indeed make a huge difference.
Comment by Silver Bullion — September 2, 2010 @ 6:35 am