Archive for April, 2008
Stretching Your Food Budget During Hard Times
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This is a guest post by Melissa at Master Your Card where she blogs about how to use credit cards wisely. Check out her great credit card blog and subscribe here!
Tough times are all around us. It seems that the price of everything is always going up and, unfortunately, our [...]
Thoughts On Managing a Parent’s Illness and Possible Continuing Care Options
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Over the last few days I’ve been forced to think about possible continuing care options given my father in law’s recent stroke and seizure over the weekend. We were not prepared to deal with a major illness in that it required care after leaving the hospital. As adult children the thought [...]
Managing Chaos And Working My Way Back
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I’m here in our hotel room trying to beat the clock as my final is due at 12am but with so much on my mind, blogging has helped me get thoughts down that otherwise just take up space so bear with me. I have a break and with that comes a [...]
Taking a Weekend Break
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I will be taking a break from blogging until Monday. My father in law had a stroke last night and my husband and I are headed north to see him in the hospital and discuss the next step with his doctors as it is becoming likely that he will be moving in [...]
Women, Men & Money: How Are We Different?
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This is a guest post by JB. He is 23 years old and writes at Get Rich or Die Trying where he blogs about the struggles of everyday financial life and his dreams of becoming rich along with how he plans to do it.
I am getting married in less than a [...]
Rethinking the Cost Benefit Analysis of a Hybrid
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Mom at Wide Open Wallet posted a response to my article, Top 5 Hybrid SUVs Ranked by MPG which resulted in my testing of our car’s MPG. The results? Our car, the beater that it is gets on average 26-27 mpg which is pretty awesome considering that most newer cars [...]
Money Saving Tips For College Students Living on Campus
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More than likely you know someone graduating high school and heading off to college this fall. After getting over the shock of the first year’s tuition bill, they’ll be in need of some frugal tips to get by while living on campus.
Tuition.
Reduce tuition costs by:
1. [...]
The 149th Carnival Of Personal Finance Is Live
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Check out the 149th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance which went live this morning. Frank, did an awesome job of organizing and hosting this edition, love the theme and the pictures.
All the articles were good, but the following articles resonated with me:
MomAdvice presents This American’s Dream [...]
8 Recession Proof Job Industries for New Graduates
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Chances are, if you’re graduating in 2008 from college or graduate school, you’re concerned about job prospects given the current state of the economy. I’d be scared too, with Citibank cutting 4900 jobs, the Bear Stearns bailout, and airlines closing their doors. I started to think, if I had the [...]
Tricia Walsh Smith: Reason #1 Why Women Should Marry Smart
By now you’ve seen all the different blogs discussing Tricia Walsh Smith’s revenge served cold online via Youtube. In the video she refers to her soon to be ex as “mean, bad husband” and then refers to herself as “poor vulnerable Tricia” waiting desperately for her husband to “do the right thing”.
Do The Right [...]
