As I mentioned in my other post on reaching my breaking point, I got some much needed time for myself the other day.  I’ve been following a blog called Balancing Beauty & Bedlam where she shows the awesome finds she gets at thrift stores and yard sales.  I decided to try out some of the [...]

The unemployment rate that is announced each month by the U.S. Department of Labor is actually quite misleading. According to their own website people are only listed as unemployed if they have actually looked for a job in the last 4 weeks. If they have given up on looking for a job for at least [...]

I’m not sure what makes me look like a good candidate to ask for money, but apparently I am. Perhaps it is my designer Walmart clothes, my amazing hair cut, or my rugged good looks. Or maybe that guy I gave $40 to in Houston all those years ago marked me with a piece of [...]

Occasionally, you meet someone who is just so cool that they make up for 10 or so other people who… aren’t so cool. A few weeks ago I went to a UPS store to pick up some packages. The guy behind the counter was very professional and at the same time very personable. He genuinely [...]

1. Clothing Exchange: Every year my community has a clothing exchange. This is where everyone drops off their used clothing. Clothes that don’t fit them or their kids or just never looked good on them, but would look great on someone else. Some wonderful individuals organize the clothes by size and gender and then at [...]

I got a coupon from Google for $100 if used before Sept 30th for Adsense advertising. E5MS-A8GP-7KL2-8CAD-3MN We can’t use it because it is for setting up advertising for the first time. Hopefully someone else can. To use it go to: http://www.google.com/ads/offer

What are the 10 best products to have come out in the last 10 years? Mp3 players? GPS? Plasma TVs? Digital Cameras? Actually, all of these things came out in the 1990s. Yes, there has been some some great inventions(Guitar Hero?), but my point is we seem to have slowed down since the turn of [...]

Debt has got us in bondage, but one payment at a time we are breaking FREE. I’ve debated how much to share about our financial situation. To be honest it is humiliating to me to share our current circumstances, but I want to help others to avoid our situation or if you are in a [...]

A Book on the Recession that isn’t Depressing: We all know that the news media loves to constantly spew unemployment numbers and shock us with loss of homes reports. It is all so negative and leaves you feeling like there is no hope – like it is all beyond our control. This book, on the [...]

I always thought the BBB was an unbiased trustworthy source for grading businesses and reporting bad business practices. I’ve discovered that it isn’t quite so rose colored. Apparently Google who does business with countless people every day has an unsatisfactory record with the BBB because of two unresolved issues – yes two. So if the [...]