Monthly Archive for: ‘March, 2009’

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  Recessionistas Fight Back: Going From Jobless To Topless

  Courtesy of VodPod Despite the recession, some industries are still going strong, and apparently long and hard through the night if you get my drift. White collar women who once held top dollar jobs on Wall Street are now shakin it fast on easy street [...]

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• Tough Times: Parents Ditching Daycare

  photo credit: Axel Bührmann The Issue: More children left home alone to fend for themselves by working parents too strapped to afford child care. This article was written a few months ago but it speaks to some of the concerns I have as we think [...]

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  The High Life On Less: What Can You Afford To Live Without?

  What can you afford to live without? We were faced with this question while visiting some friends in Manhattan this weekend.  This was our first time visiting their apartment and we were pleasantly surprised to say the least.  So much so it made us go [...]

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  Hard Decisions: Sending A Family Member Money

  Scenario: You have a huge trip coming up that you’ve been planning for months now, but you get a phone call stating that you need to send money to a family member in order to get them out of a really bad bind.  The kind [...]

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• Suze’s Advice Changed: Build Emergency Fund Pay Minimums On Debt

  TD AMERITRADE Can’t see everything? View this email online. Attention Save Yourself clients… 5:07 PM (3 hours ago) TD AMERITRADELoading… 5:07 PM (3 hours ago) Regardless of your overall credit card debt, if you have very little saved in an emergency savings fund, I want [...]

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  SAHMs Read This: ‘Economoms’ Back to the Job Market

  Hard times and shrinking paychecks are forcing some stay at home moms to return to the job market.  Meet the Economommies. They are women who chose to leave the workforce in order to focus more on child rearing but with recent market downturns, scrambling to [...]

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  Recharge Your Resume And Get Back In The Game: 7 Tips

  If you’ve been out of work for some time or recently fired/laid off then this post is for you. As the time goes by and job fairs are posted it seems as though they can’t get here fast enough. You focus so much energy on [...]

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  How To Make A Layoff Payoff: 6 Surefire Tips

  Readers Digest has a really fabulous article about getting on your feet after a layoff.  Sometimes we see it coming and there are others for whom it comes out of the blue sky with no warning.  But in this economy, everyone should have a clear [...]

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  My Ordeal With Lenovo.com and Paypal Fraud

  Yesterday I received an email stating that I’d just transferred $1649.00 to Lenovo.com.  I didn’t and immediately got off the phone with a client to call Paypal and then my bank.  Both stated they wouldn’t be able to help me until the pending authorization cleared [...]

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• Getting Married: What Happens to Life Insurance Policies

  photo credit: Jayray24 When you get married, a lot of things from both your life and your partner’s life get thrown together, including finances, households, families and a host other things that you cannot really predict. But one thing you can take care of is [...]

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