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Archive for August 2008

Monthly Archive for: ‘August, 2008’

  • DNC 2008: Know Your Power: Don’t Let Anyone Discount Who You Are

    photo credit: foundphotoslj At this moment, I sit here listening to The Honorable Elijah Cummings give a speech at the Maryland Delegation Breakfast.  To say that his speech gives me anything short of chills is an understatement.  I remember asking my husband earlier this week, [...]

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  • Detour: Blogging From The DNC

    This week will be a bit different and I hope you’ll bear with me.  I wanted to have posts lined up from my fellow personal finance bloggers but decided to go with the moment instead. Right now I’m packing for an early morning flight as [...]

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  • Stay At Home Wives: The New Status Symbol?

    Add this to the list of decisions that women are now criticized for with regards to their life decisions. If it isn’t the Mommy Wars between the stay at home and working moms, then before that it was the women who chose to get an [...]

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  • Save Money By Sharing One Car

    Wisebread published an article this week which detailed in part the expenses incurred when taking on a second car: According to the American Public Transportation Association, replacing one car with a combination of walking and public transportation saves a household $8059 per year in reduced [...]

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  • Menu Planning: 6 Tips To Get Started and Recipes From The Kitchen Staples List

    Click the image to enlarge Let’s face it, school starts in a few days, the summer is coming to a close and you need to get back into a routine for the fall and winter months. Why not make it easier by getting started on [...]

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  • 5 Ways Your Choice Of Life Partners Can Make Or Break Your Finances

    photo credit: Harshadewa Choosing the right long term partner takes time, patience and a sincere interest in making sure you’ve chosen the right person.  After all you’ll be sharing your lives together quite possibly for the rest of your life.  So it makes sense that [...]

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  • DC Bloggers Brazen Careerist Meetup Recap

    Where else can you find an open bar, free goodies, good food and company?  At the Brazen Careerist DC Blogger meetup!  I was invited along with the other DC BC Bloggers for our first meetup where we shared good company and some good ole blogger [...]

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  • Girls Gone Broke: Cyndi Lauper

    This month’s group writing project is about Rich People Gone Broke! Being that Girls Just Wanna Have Funds is themed by the obvious, Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have FUN hit of the 80s, I thought her profile appropriate for this project. This 80s icon [...]

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  • Dominican Hair Care Rates: NY vs DC

    [ Aside: Feel free to skip this post as it isn't personal finance related so much as it is my ranting about the price differences between Dominican hair care in NY and DC] If  you’re a woman with textured hair then you know that Dominican [...]

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  • Whole Foods On The Cheap? Tips On Shopping At Your Favorite Organic Food Destination

    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 [...]

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  • Waiting To Have A Baby Because Of Finances

    Our parents had children in their teens and early twenties, now women are having children in their early thirties to late forties.  Some might ask what are the pros and cons of such a decision.  Why are women choosing to have children later on in [...]

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  • My New Favorite Financial Everything Tool: Yodlee.com

    I’ve blogged about Mint.com before and while I really do like their interface, I’ve found a new love, Yodlee. Yes, I said it and I am prepared to shout it into the blogosphere!  Not only do they log in seamlessly to each and every financial [...]

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  • 4 Reasons Why Women Should Take Control Of Their Personal Finances

    Short but sweet.  Here are 4 reasons why women should be paying attention in the area of personal finance when it comes to their financial health. Retirement Are you hoping that social security will be there for you when you finally retire?  I hoe so [...]

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  • Weekend Roundup Roadtrip Edition

    This was an unusually busy weekend, but I don’t think we could have asked for a better one. Friday night, the Girls Just Wanna Have Funds Meetup had their first happy hour in DC at Zengos.  Unfortunately, it will our last trip there as the [...]

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