Category Archive for: ‘Money’

• Can Money Buy Happiness?

  In the 2010 flick Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Shia LaBeouf’s character (Jake Moore) asks Josh Brolin (Bretton James), “What’s your number?  …the amount of money you would need to just walk away from it and live?” Without hesitation, Brolin responds, “More”. Yes, that was [...]

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  Save The Personality And Sass For Happy Hour Not Your Boss

  Houston, we might have another Cisco Fatty on our hands! I belong to a few online/email groups and came across an email from a young lady who’d gotten into some hot water because she tweeted about a potential job offer after snagging and acing the [...]

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• 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 [...]

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  4 Fiscal Tips For The Savvy Single Woman

  This is a guest post by Yolanda Shoshana. Yolanda Shoshana “Shoshi” is a personality, lifestyle expert, life coach, and speaker living in New York City known as the “Luscious Lifestyle Diva”. Her blog is “The Luscious Life” which gives the 411 on lifestyle, motivation, food, [...]

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• 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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• Group Writing Project: Personal Experiences with Loans

  photo credit: Derek Farr ( DetroitDerek ) This month’s group writing project is about our personal experiences with loans. I’d say that with over 100l in student loan debt I’m quite familiar with the subject. My experiences with loans includes the following: Student Loans After [...]

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  The Smart Woman’s Guide for the Soon to be Divorced

  What do Juanita Jordan, Halle Berry and Sheila Johnson all have in common? All three came out on top in their respective divorce proceedings. If you’ve been under a rock and aren’t familiar with the final decisions, Juanita Jordan was paid $168 million dollars when [...]

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  Sex? Money? What do you fight about more?

  CNN asked, so I’m asking, what do you fight about more? photo credit: ganessas

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• Free money? What shall we do?

  I’ve gotten a few emails and chatted this up somewhat ad nauseum with friends about the money coming our way from Bush’s economic stimulus plan. *sigh* Let’s be real here folks. We are in a recession. However, remain optimistic and protect yourselves. If you get [...]

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• Do You Need a Financial Advisor?

  It’s the new year and hopefully you’re giving careful thought as to your financial goals for 2008. Are you planning to save for a new car? Contribute fully to a retirement fund? Save towards an emergency fund? If you are, then you should consider meeting [...]

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• Eating Junk is Expensive!!

  Eating junk now leads to chronic illnesses later which means trips to the doctor, time off work which then means losing wages if you end up exhausting sick leave. This leads to stress about missing work due to illness which then leads to lower productivity [...]

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• 2008 Financial Goals

  Ive struggled with this for a few days now and I’m still figuring it out. Every book I’ve read and Podcast I listened to all say to write it down. So this is what I’m doing. I need to be accountable in 2008 so this [...]

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  “Mint Addiction”

  I signed up with [tag]Mint.com[/tag] in September but didn’t fiddle too much with it until a few days ago. This is due to their system not being able to access our bank account because of the security prompts. Im not sure when it was fixed [...]

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• ACORN changes

  I talked with our former ACORN representative today to get up to date information on how the housing crunch has affected their program. Prior to the recent sub prime issues ACORN had a pretty decent program, here are the details in a snapshot: Now the [...]

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  Women and Money: What does it mean to you?

  Growing up my dad always drilled into me that I value money and money does not value me. Now that I am older, I see the wisdom in his words. Sure, Uncle Sam puts a value on me based on my income and net worth [...]

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