As of December 31, 2009, 2009 will be the year that was, not what 2010 will be. I’ve gotten so many messages from readers pouring out their hearts about how horrible 2009 was partnered with the insecurity of what 2010 will bring.
STOP!
Stop being sad/angry/mad/ about what 2009 wasnt and make plans for what 2010 will [...]
DC is no stranger to the high cost of living you often see in New York City, Miami and Los Angeles. But can you live on $30,000 a year there? This question came up on a listserv I frequent and the responses were equally divided amongst those who felt it would be damn near impossible [...]
Marie Claire has a very interesting article that details the 5 Secrets of The Highest Paid Women and I agree with their rationale.
1. Be Yourself.
In order to achieve anything in life, you need to be authentic and true to who you are. This allows people to understand who you are at the core while allowing [...]
I got this question on another blog:
Your husband is worth $1 billion dollars a year. You find out that he has cheated on you. He offers you 20 million to stay for 2 years. Do you
a. you have morals and you leave him
b. you have morals you beat him with a club and then leave [...]
Tomorrow I’ll be having breakfast with the one and only Suze Orman in New York City!! The folks at Meetup will tell you that this has been something on my wish list for a while now. I totally admire Suze for all her work around women and personal finance so I am incredibly honored that [...]
If you’re like me, then you dread filing your taxes in the face of the looming April 15th deadline. It conjures up thoughts of going through endless receipts, spending hours going through yearly expenses and W2s to reconcile everything for Uncle Sam.
Well, there’s an app for that! Enter Turbo Tax Snap Tax.
Got some time to [...]
Well, that should read why I ended one but I already have one. If you’ve been following my tweets then you know that my car was broken into today and they tried to steal the GPS and possibly the car itself.
Police caught someone trying to break in my car outside the school. I am PISSED!! [...]
Surely you’ve seen the newest video or article going around discussing the single black woman’s plight around finding a mate within the black community. If you haven’t, read on, the overall comments on the subject will be interesting.
After watching the video yesterday, the part that jumped out at me was the discussion around money/finances in [...]
As of December 31, 2009, 2009 will be the year that was, not what 2010 will be. I’ve gotten so many messages from readers pouring out their hearts about how horrible 2009 was partnered with the insecurity of what 2010 will bring.
STOP!
Stop being sad/angry/mad/ about what 2009 wasnt and make plans for what 2010 will [...]
DC is no stranger to the high cost of living you often see in New York City, Miami and Los Angeles. But can you live on $30,000 a year there? This question came up on a listserv I frequent and the responses were equally divided amongst those who felt it would be damn near impossible [...]
Houston, we might have another Cisco Fatty on our hands!
I belong to a few online/email groups and came across an email from a young lady who’d gotten into some hot water because she tweeted about a potential job offer after snagging and acing the interview.
One problem.
She tweeted the company’s name and possibly that the person [...]
This is a guest post by Beverly Davis, Founder of SundayCosmetics.com
I’m a home-based entrepreneur with a clear vision of stable, multiple income streams. It sounds savvy, but the truth is, I learned from sudden unemployment. I’ll never again rely on one employer (or client) as my only source of income. It is my mission to share [...]
This is a guest post by Yolanda Shoshana. Yolanda Shoshana “Shoshi” is a personality, lifestyle expert, life coach, and speaker living in New York City known as the “Luscious Lifestyle Diva”. Her blog is “The Luscious Life” which gives the 411 on lifestyle, motivation, food, health, and entertainment for single women who want to leave [...]
When talking about women and money, we are often portrayed as financial risks. This is because of the perception that we we either shop too much or know little when it comes to utilizing money to create long term wealth and security. So today I’d like to discuss the issue of being a financial asset [...]
I got this question on another blog:
Your husband is worth $1 billion dollars a year. You find out that he has cheated on you. He offers you 20 million to stay for 2 years. Do you
a. you have morals and you leave him
b. you have morals you beat him with a club and then leave [...]
I usually don’t post celebrity stuff here but for some reason this, this right here just tickles me to no end.
Kelis claims estranged hubby Nas has left her high and dry … not offering her a penny in the wake of her impending birth … and she says she’s broke — “I have run out [...]
Yes, I know we’ve discussed this topic ad nauseum here and where the post first went live as a guest post at Consumerism Commentary.
In my defense of bringing this up again, I was contacted by ABCNews to discuss my views on marriage and money as it relates to the book: Smart Girls Marry Money: How [...]
How many times have we thought about this? Self imposed (sometimes socially) time lines on motherhood, career, education and marriage?
I’ve always believed that women can have it all. Still do, just in staggered moderation. Lately, I have to admit though, going through my own struggles with this as I want it all and pretty determined [...]
Marie Claire has a very interesting article that details the 5 Secrets of The Highest Paid Women and I agree with their rationale.
1. Be Yourself.
In order to achieve anything in life, you need to be authentic and true to who you are. This allows people to understand who you are at the core while allowing [...]
So I know you’re saying, find my passion? Ginger, I can hardly find a job I like much less talk about my passion! Those of you that do have jobs, I know these days may find it hard to tolerate let alone fathom adding the word passionate as a descriptor to your day job.
Been [...]
With Obama’s recent visit to the Cleveland clinic, who will cease hiring smokers as of September 1, the Today Show is speculating that this may become a corporate health care trend.
Here’s the message from Dr Delos Cosgrove, CEO and President at the Cleveland Clinic:
While we are on the topic of smoking, I understand that [...]
Yes you read right! If you are unemployed and have bad credit then you have another hurdle to get past: employers unwilling to higher you because of bad credit.
It’s important to note that this is the kind of bad credit where the potential employee has shown reckless irresponsibility with their financial life thus making the employer unwilling [...]
How did you know you were ready to become a mom? Did something just switch on? I’ll be honest and say I don’t know that I was ready to be “wife” until 1.5 years into our marriage. The intent was there but to really step into it? Only happened recently LOL And I’m ok with [...]
So with all this talk about motherhood, my husband and I have been having pretty frank discussions about my reservations around having a child right now, one of them that I haven’t discussed being adequate and quality childcare. He then asked if I would consider being a stay at home mom devoted solely to raising [...]
My husband and I had a good talk tonight about what the next stage in our lives should be. Since completing my graduate studies I love not having to study for a test, write a paper or get together for a group project on the weekends. What I love even more is my job and [...]
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage! Right? Well, not so fast.
The issue for some women after the arrival of baby seems to be:
Who am I?
What am I worth?
Am I still considered a professional and competent woman?
Are my abilities, education and experience still respected after having a baby?
Who am [...]
Scott Heiferman, the CEO of Meetup (love him BTW!) sends out this email to all the meetup organizers today asking us to give people reasons to utilize meetups in order to save money. Because of recent changes in the economy, people are looking not only for answers, but a way to ease the pain. And, [...]
The Whole Foods gods must have been listening this week as we adjusted our food budget to only include organic foods. This means only shopping at Whole Foods and after reading this article, it cinched the decision as the following statement blew us away because my husband and I really try to live a [...]
photo credit: elisfanclub
I switched to ATT from Verizon with monthly cost being the motivator because of advanced technology and lower rates with the AT&T Family Plan. For the last 3 years I’ve had the Verizon Palm Treo, but with my recent decision to downgrade our budget, the Treo had to go. I could [...]
photo credit: CarbonNYC
May is around the corner which for some means graduation from high school, college or graduate school. I remember the feeling well. And, while it meant being released from the bosom of self discovery into the arms of adult responsibilities, I looked forward to it with enthusiasm.
I moved [...]
DC is no stranger to the high cost of living you often see in New York City, Miami and Los Angeles. But can you live on $30,000 a year there? This question came up on a listserv I frequent and the responses were equally divided amongst those who felt it would be damn near impossible [...]
It’s no secret that with everything going up that I’ve needed to find ways to save money. I abhor paying more than I need to for the very basics in life. Over the last few weeks I’ve tried to figure out where we can cut back to save more money. The key? Asking. Asking for [...]
Food is expensive! I’ve talked about it ad nauseum on this site because this is an important topic to me and of course to all of you. We can’t control the values of our homes or gas prices, but to a certain extent we can control how much we pay for groceries. [...]
We’re constantly inundated with the news of people losing their homes, not being able to make ends meet and being stripped down to one or no income at all. What if this happened to you? How would you make ends meet? Most of us are in in frugal mode right now because [...]
