Category Archive for: ‘Featured’

• 7 Savvy Ways To Be A Financial Asset In Your Relationship

  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 [...]

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• Recessionista Tip: Plan Weekly Menu Around Supermarket Sales

  I don’t have to tell you that food prices have been on the rise right?  I’d be preaching to the choir so rather than go into a long diatribe about my grocery bill, I thought it best to discuss how to plan your menu around [...]

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  Grocery Bill Doubled In 9 Months: We Have A Problem

  photo credit: ralphbijker Today we went on our biweekly shopping trip to Trader Joes. I am pissed! Our grocery bills have been inching up for a little while now but dammit if this didn’t take the cake!  Now, granted we have been out of town [...]

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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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• Too Educated For Entry Level? Why Having A Master’s Degree May Be To Your Detriment

  The Washington Post published the article Too Educated For Entry Level, and I was actually excited to see that they’d taken on this issue, especially here in the DC Metro area. With more women going to college and then going on to obtain master’s degrees, [...]

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  8 Frugal and Cost Cutting Tips for the Newly Independent

  photo credit: CarbonNYC May is around the corner which for some means graduation from high school, college or graduate school. I remember the feeling well. And, while it meant being released from the bosom of self discovery into the arms of adult responsibilities, I looked [...]

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