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Ali |
Thursday September 27, 2007
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We recently posted a poll on our homepage about job satisfaction. Do you love your job, hate it or are you currently working towards your career utopia? 25% of you said you hate your job or are totally indifferent about it (equally bad in our books), 20% said you are in your dream career and 55% said you are still working towards it. So essentially only 20% of us are truly happy where we are while...Pour lire cet article en français, voir plus bas
Think your StarBucks fix doesn't amount to much? Here's a very interesting post from Fabulously Broke in the City on how much pocket change we are really spending every week...
Assuming you DON'T track how much you spend in expenses on a daily basis, and that you do spend on miscellaneous items that you haven't budgeted for (if you even have a budget), is spending $48 on "I...
Continue ReadingAssuming you DON'T track how much you spend in expenses on a daily basis, and that you do spend on miscellaneous items that you haven't budgeted for (if you even have a budget), is spending $48 on "I...
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Claire |
Wednesday September 19, 2007
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When I went on a high school trip to Paris, my parents gave me a credit card to use for emergencies. 46 souvenir T-shirts and 5 bottles of perfume later, they took it back. Hey, the prices were in francs, OK? How was I supposed to know how much that costs in *real* money?
The agreement had been to pay them back, which I eventually did, of course. I learned some valuable lessons about credit, limits...
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We agree with this interesting post from Fabulously Broke in the City...
The general school of thought to becoming wealthy is to take 10%-15% out of your pay and set it aside for yourself. Then, figure out how to live on the rest of your income. But the main idea is to pay yourself first. Why don't we do this with our time?
Time is just as valuable a commodity, because as we all know,...
Continue ReadingThe general school of thought to becoming wealthy is to take 10%-15% out of your pay and set it aside for yourself. Then, figure out how to live on the rest of your income. But the main idea is to pay yourself first. Why don't we do this with our time?
Time is just as valuable a commodity, because as we all know,...
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A little something from The Gothamist in NYC to make all of us renters feel better about ourselves...
The assumption that buying is preferable to renting is so ingrained in our national real estate psyche, that to suggest otherwise could result in someone questioning your financial, if not actual, sanity. The New York Times did some serious nationwide number crunching, however, and is...
Continue ReadingThe assumption that buying is preferable to renting is so ingrained in our national real estate psyche, that to suggest otherwise could result in someone questioning your financial, if not actual, sanity. The New York Times did some serious nationwide number crunching, however, and is...
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We found this on TheBudgetFashionista and we think there are some great skincare tips here for those of us with limited funds.
Continue ReadingIt's easy enough to be all polished and gorgeous when you're a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi. But what's the average, underpaid aide to do? Savvy Beltway-area babes (and most of them are) know that they...
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Ali |
Wednesday August 30, 2006
Pour lire cet article en français, voir plus basThere is nothing more awkward than fumbling with your wallet at the counter of a hair salon trying to figure out how much to give the stylist who cut your hair, the colorist, the guy who washed your hair and the girl who blow-dried it. Gee... got a calculator? What are the expectations and how much is reasonable to leave as a tip? There are many differing opinions on this one. A friend of mine...
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