1. Start a pet sitting business. If you live in a large metropolitan city or even the suburbs, pet sitting and boarding can be a good way to earn extra cash.
2. Provide daycare/aftercare for children in your neighborhood. The best way to go about doing this is to research the costs into getting licensed [...]
If you’ve ever been on an interview and held your breath until the final offer only to be disappointed, please, read on.
One of the most annoying things about the job hunt has to be hoping that they will make an offer commensurate with what you believe to be your worth. Not only your worth but [...]
Do you have a mentor? If so then you understand the importance of having one due to the guidance and support they’ve given you over the years.
I truly believe that women are more successful when they have mentors guiding them both personally and professionally. Especially when when women mentor women. Great things happen!
men·tor
a wise and [...]
I’ve made this request on Twitter a couple times but then backed away after receiving responses so this is my attempt to do this again. I am a control freak so this is not easy but here goes.
I’d love to have a partner in crime as it relates to this blog.
Specifically, someone with a passion [...]
Some of you have been out of work for more than a year or you may have just been laid off. Others may be contemplating a jump from their present place of work but fear going from the pot into the fire kind of situation. Read on. I’ll teach you the best tips on how [...]
What are you wearing today? Post pictures in the comments or @Gingerlatte on Twitter
1. Start a pet sitting business. If you live in a large metropolitan city or even the suburbs, pet sitting and boarding can be a good way to earn extra cash.
2. Provide daycare/aftercare for children in your neighborhood. The best way to go about doing this is to research the costs into getting licensed [...]
If you’ve ever been on an interview and held your breath until the final offer only to be disappointed, please, read on.
One of the most annoying things about the job hunt has to be hoping that they will make an offer commensurate with what you believe to be your worth. Not only your worth but [...]
Today I declined to get started on a doctoral program due to concerns around taking on more student loan debt. I just don’t see myself being burdened with more loans than I am right now with no guarantee of a significant increase in salary.
I’ve added some articles here on student loans and others that caught [...]
A: Excuse me sir, may I talk to you?
B: Sure, come on in. What can I do for you?
A: Well sir, as you know, I have been an employee of this prestigious firm for over ten years.
B: Yes.
A: I won’t beat around the bush. [...]
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 [...]
If you’ve ever been on an interview and held your breath until the final offer only to be disappointed, please, read on.
One of the most annoying things about the job hunt has to be hoping that they will make an offer commensurate with what you believe to be your worth. Not only your worth but [...]
A: Excuse me sir, may I talk to you?
B: Sure, come on in. What can I do for you?
A: Well sir, as you know, I have been an employee of this prestigious firm for over ten years.
B: Yes.
A: I won’t beat around the bush. [...]
Do you have a mentor? If so then you understand the importance of having one due to the guidance and support they’ve given you over the years.
I truly believe that women are more successful when they have mentors guiding them both personally and professionally. Especially when when women mentor women. Great things happen!
men·tor
a wise and [...]
Some of you have been out of work for more than a year or you may have just been laid off. Others may be contemplating a jump from their present place of work but fear going from the pot into the fire kind of situation. Read on. I’ll teach you the best tips on how [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to the 236th Festival of Frugality, True Blood Happy Hour Edition. I am excited to host this weekly edition and ongoing installation of the best articles on Frugality within Personal Finance. If you’re a fan of True Blood, then I think you’ll like this week’s theme!
Vampire King Picks
Finance 101: Introduction to Bonds Lesson 1
Bloody [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
