March 17, 2009
If you’ve ever sold anything on Amazon.com, Half.Ebay.com, or Ebay.com, you know that one of the biggest overheads to sink your profits is packaging and shipping costs. You buy the box, the packaging popcorn, then finally ship it. Who knows how much extra you’re paying to ship air and excess packaging.
I save money [...]
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DIY Savings, Selling by Cathy
March 15, 2009
One of the most important aspects of defining your ‘look’ is your eyebrows. Like many girls, though, trying to do it myself is intimidating. I’ve had many moment of “oh sh*t – I overtweezed!” followed by weeks of attempting to patch it with eyebrow pencils. For a while, I was paying about $28 including tip [...]
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Reviews, Smart Shopping by Cathy
March 10, 2009
They called my generation “Gen X” or the “MTV” generation. My generation learned to be wary of company loyalty. We never learned to be loyal to a company because we saw our parents laid off from their jobs where they worked for 15 or more years. We never expected to be with the same company [...]
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Investing, Recession Living by Cathy
March 9, 2009
I recently read an article Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Study Finds. It’s a rather blunt way of putting it, but it’s what we all knew; incompetent people don’t know they are incompetent. The main point I got out of it is, you have to be able to recognize what you do badly. [...]
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Life Management by Cathy
March 6, 2009
With the US jobless rate now at 8.1 percent and no sign of ending soon, we all know someone who has been laid off, or is facing a lay off. That someone could be you. We all want to know how we can make most efficient use of what we have until we can make [...]
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Life Management, Recession Living, frugality by Cathy
March 5, 2009
We all know we should eat at home more often, but it’s difficult to juggle when you’re a single career professional. It is possible though. With the economy the way it is, a lot of people are wanting to know how they can eat at home more often.
Let’s go over some of the basics.
It saves [...]
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Food Tips, Life Management, Recession Living by Cathy
March 1, 2009
All investments carry risk. There are no guarantees, and Lending Club is certainly no exception. In The Lending Club Primer, Part 2, we explored Lending Club as an alternative to a traditional bank loan, and as an alternative or supplement to your investments. As with all investments, we must be well informed about the risks.
When [...]
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Finances, Investing, Social Lending by Cathy