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Blog Action Day: Women and Poverty in 2008 (Plus: How You Can Take Action)
photo credit: Franco Folini
Girls Just Wanna Have Funds is participating in Blog Action Day which is today October 15, 2008. Our collective topic this year is Poverty. Being that this site is geared towards women and personal finance, I thought it fitting to discuss women and poverty in 2008. After all, we still face [...]
Recessionista Tip: Plan Weekly Menu Around Supermarket Sales
photo credit: rick
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 weekly supermarket sales.
First, when planning your menus [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance - 173rd Edition
(October 13: I had to do a backup but lost everything after October 4 so this is a Google cache of the page that I was able to recover. If you commented previously, my apologies but please comment again or feel free to reload the post linking here so that your trackback will show up.)
Welcome [...]
One More Reason Not To Give Up Your Purse-strings
Like so many of you I’m here watching Grey’s Anatomy and it’s absolutely one of my favorite shows of the season. One scene that stood out to me was where a wife was faced with finding out why her health insurance would expire at midnight, but her husband was in need of emergency surgery. [...]
Open Discussion: Professional Women Losing Their Identities After Baby
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage! Right? Well, not so fast.
The issue for some women after the arrival of baby seems to be:
Who am I?
What am I worth?
Am I still considered a professional and competent woman?
Are my abilities, education and experience still respected after having a baby?
Who am [...]
How To Fly Standby And Not Get Stranded For 12 Hours
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If you’ve been following me this weekend on Twitter then you know that I had less than great time at Blogworld 2008. I liked Blogworld itself but the mess with spraining my ankle, expensive cabs and finding out how standby operates in today’s airline arena really pissed me off.
I officially hate USAIR. [...]
Changing Student Loan Practices Due to Market Turmoil
Some of you may remember my post about Sallie Mae No Longer Consolidating Student Loans.
[The following was provided by Mark Kantrowitz and expanded by NASFAA.]
Updated List Of Lenders Changing Loan Practices
In the wake of the subprime mortgage market turmoil and lender subsidy
cuts by Congress, student loan providers are modifying their business
practices to adapt to a [...]
$130.03 Reasons Why I Love Ebay
photo credit: liewcf
Bluefly seems to have finally gotten my attention. Oh how they understand my love for all things cashmere, and boy did I fall for it. I’ve been stalking Bluefly for over a year now, but never gave in until last week while shopping for a new black “carry all” bag. [...]
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 a BA in Criminal Justice and 2 MAs in Forensic and Counseling [...]
I Hate Comcast: Updated
Frank from Comcast (comcastcares on Twitter) really came through for me. I came across his Twitter profile over the weekend and thought, “what the heck is Comcast doing on Twitter?” Then I read his responses to other Twitter followers and he was doing a great job of helping them solve anything from technical problems to [...]
