Girls Just Wanna Have Funds

Do I Stay or Go? One Woman’s Struggle To Step Out On Her Own (Video)

How likely are you to leave a bad marriage if you have no education or poor career prospects? I realize there may be other factors such as children, years put into the marriage and each party’s willingness to work things out.
But let’s put that aside for the moment.
I have always always said that I [...]

New Meetup: Visualizing Your Financial Success via SMART GOALS

The DC Chapter of Girls Just Wanna Have Funds is having their first meetup of 2009!  Check it out:
2009 is upon us and we’ve talked about goal setting being an integral part of achieving financial success. Specifically SMART goals:
Specific

WHAT are you going to do? Use action words such as direct, organize, coordinate, lead, develop, plan, [...]

Happy New Year and Happy 1st Blogaversary!

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Well December 17th 2007 marked the day I got started with this blog as a personal finance blog for women but I wanted to celebrate it today.  I purchased this domain back in 2003 after reading the book Girls Just Wanna Have Funds, and, inspired by my own need to address personal [...]

Happy Holidays!

First I’d like to thank all of you for reading over the last year.  2008 took this blog and our goal to bring personal finance from a woman’s perspective to new heights.  I am thankful for “meeting” you all because you’ve broadened my horizons on this topic.  If 2008 is any indicator of what 2009 [...]

Career Couples: Who Becomes The Trailing Spouse?

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Who’s career is more important in your household?   Is it yours?  Significant other’s?  Well, according to this CNN article: Career couples fight over who’s the ‘trailing spouse’, more emphasis is usually placed on the man’s career.
What do you think about that?  Why does the woman’s career take the back seat?
Blame it on socialization, [...]

Left Behind in a Layoff: Getting Ready for What’s Next

This is a guest post by Rebecca Brown via DivineCaroline.com

The pink slips have been handed out, the severance checks cashed, and the farewell drinks consumed. Everyone has offered their condolences to those who were let go, yet you’re still here, reeling in your cubicle, wondering if maybe you’re the one who really deserves the well [...]

Life Lessons#1: Develop Multiple Income Streams

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 [...]

Is My Money Safe?

This is a guest post by wowOwow, via Divine Caroline.com

The dramatic events on Wall Street are making us on Main Street nervous about the safety of our money. Is my savings account safe? What about my investment accounts? What about my IRA account? Who administers my 401-K? And what about my annuity with AIG? [...]

Ten Money Lessons from the Great Depression

This is a guest post by By Jeffrey Strain of Mainstreet.com via DivineCaroline.com

For most economists it is no longer whether there is going to be a recession, but what type of recession it is going to be—short recessions like the one from 1990 to 1991 and the one from March to November 2001, or something [...]

Holiday Blogging Funk

As if I need to tell you…right?  My lack of posting lately is telling that I’m in a blogging funk.
I am so sorry for not posting more substantive articles as of late.  I have been in a blogging funk of sorts and willing myself out of it as I balance my new freedom (finished grad [...]