Real Estate - Sell Your Home in a Buyer’s Market
2008-06-05 23:39:55
Find a good real estate broker.
If you stop reading here, take that with you.
When I was selling a home a few years ago, the market was just at the beginning of it’s downturn. I was lucky...
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Amazon Savings June, 2008
2008-06-04 19:07:20
Here are some of the highlights at Amazon
this month. Be sure to also check their 50%, 70%, and clearance “discount aisles.”
Kettle Chips
Save 40% with an instant rebate. This is in...
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Tyson Chicken Caught Making False Antibiotic-Free Claims
2008-06-03 12:36:21
Still another blatant example of marketing deliberately meant to mislead and take advantage of consumers.
After being brought to court by competing companies, and losing their subsequent appeal,...
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, Caught
Eating Healthy Without Being Wealthy- Avocados
2008-06-07 11:57:33
I love writing about eating healthy, though I’m not always that good with its actual implementation. Better to confess this now, rather than be outed by my spouse, in a rousting comment,...
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The Power of Persuasion: Eight Strategies for Getting Exactly What You Want
2008-06-08 20:33:57
Whether you’re a salesman, a supervisor, a computer programmer, or a stay at home mom, the art of persuasion can be a key element to your success at work, and, indeed, in many aspects of your...
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Blog Carnival Round-Up Week of June 9th, 2008
2008-06-10 05:46:10
Here’s the Carnival
s I’m hoping to be in this week. I’ll be adding my favorites from each one as the week progresses. Hope you’ll check back. There’s always something fun to see!
Carnival of Personal...
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Debt Can Ruin Your Health In More Ways Than One
2008-06-11 22:33:09
People with newly acquired extreme debt also reported having a higher percentage of stress induced illnesses than those without extreme debt.
A recently conducted AP-AOL Health
Poll found that:
27...
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20 Top Hot Tips
2008-06-13 16:17:10
The tips this month are on Food and Happiness. Not such a strange combination, really.
I have 10 of each. They will save you time and money or improve your health. Sometimes both.
Any thoughts on...
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New Website Outs Companies With Poor Corporate Responsibility Records
2008-06-13 10:19:13
I like buying from companies that stick to socially and environmentally responsible business practices.
The new catch phrase is called “greening my life.”
Whatever.
I just want big...
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, Responsibility
, Records
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“Snap” Sunday Sermon: Twenty-Four Brand-New Hours
2008-06-14 09:59:52
This is one of my favorite readings.
TWENTY-FOUR BRAND-NEW HOURS
By Thich Nhat Hanh
“Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours [...]
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How Well Do You Deal With Change?
2008-06-15 15:19:03
Dramatic changes in your life can be stressful, reeking havoc not only with your life, but with your health as well. It’s not the changes themselves that causes health issues, but your...
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Blog Carnival Round-Up Week of June 15th, 2008
2008-06-16 11:17:49
Before we look at the Carnival
s, I want to bring your attention to a new web site called PF Buzz. If you’re into Personal Finance and Money, this sight has a lot to offer you! A number of PF...
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Happy Hour
2008-06-21 07:19:41
I love late Friday afternoons. It’s Weekendus Maximus Time. Raspberry Vodka Gimlet in hand, I contemplate the week.
Here’s a few short news bites on - what else? - gasoline...
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NASA Meets Trash, and a Poetic Moment on Trash With Shel Silverstein
2008-06-18 17:11:03
News Flash
In an attempt to solve the world waste problem, U.S. Congress, in a bipartisan moment, has voted to commission the U.S. Space Program to develop a method for shooting our garbage...
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Nickel and Dimed - Service Workers Adjust to Lower Tips
2008-07-04 17:45:31
If you make your living in the service industry, you’re economic woes are going doubly deep.
“People can’t afford to be generous right now,” says Susan, a server at a Boston...
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, Service
, Workers
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Are you one of George W. Bush’s Canaries in the Coal Mine?
2008-07-02 18:33:45
I felt the hair go up on the back of my neck reading one of my earlier April posts called Sparks Fly Between White House and EPA Over Recent Smog Standard Reduction.
The gist of the article is that,...
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Carnival of Personal Finance, #159: The First Zero-Emissions City
2008-06-30 01:13:55
Welcome to this week’s Carnival
of Personal
Finance. There are 87 great PF submissions this week. Enjoy! If there’s any article you particularly like, let everyone know about it in the...
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Red Sox Nation - Bust Your Budget With a Smile
2008-07-17 19:28:36
Even those who hate baseball in New England, love the Boston Red Sox
.
We are a Red Sox Nation
.
Every Boston Red Sox home game since May 15th, 2003 has been sold out. That’s over five years.
I...
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Make Money On-Line Playing Wild Treasure
2008-07-16 18:48:22
Think you know a lot about finance, or movies, or poetry? Put your mind to the test, at a new website called Wild Treasure
. Sign up is free. There are cash prizes if you win.
Or should I say,...
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“I Haven’t Saved a Dime,” or “Will I Have a Heart Attack When I Retire?”
2008-07-15 05:47:45
At Americans’ current savings practices, 4 out of 5 people will not have enough money to retire in their accustomed lifestyle.
A recent study by Hewitt Associates, an international human...
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, Heart
Hosting the Money Hacks Carnival
2008-08-03 20:52:02
This Wednesday, August 26th, I’ll be hosting the Money
Hacks Carnival
# 24.
The carnival theme: “Dog Days of Summer.”
This is a traveling carnival sponsored by...
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Snap Sunday Sermon - A Reading From No Death, No Fear, by Thich Nhat Hanh
2008-08-02 06:37:34
This reading is taken from No Death, No Fear, published by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putnam
by Thich Nhat Hanh
“If we are mindful of the true nature of...
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Walmart Mobilizes Against Democrats
2008-08-01 13:01:12
Walmart is holding nationwide meetings with its employees for the purpose of encouraging them to vote Republican in November.
So states the Wall Street Journal, after speaking with several Walmart...
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Countdown to 50
2008-08-18 06:28:38
OK, I’m a little obsessed with the idea that I’m turning 50 in 50 days. That saying “You’re not getting older, you’re getting better” is hogwash. My body is...
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Cloak Me
2008-08-17 21:56:01
It’s not easy to invent something that has absolutely no redeeming value.
Drugs, genetic engineering - even nuclear power…when we juxtapose their positive contributions with tragic...
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LinkedIn: A Powerful Professional Networking Tool
2008-08-16 12:45:03
Need to kick start your career? Recently laid off?
Finding a job is no picnic. And we all know that resumes don’t find jobs, people do.
LinkedIn
networks people. Staying in contact with old...
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