October 2011

Stress-Free Finances: The Budget

October 18, 2011

When it comes to taking the stress out of your personal finance adventures, the budget is king. It doesn’t matter how much or how little you earn: building a structure for your income and outgo gives you some degree of control over your financial life. And a feeling of control goes a long way toward [...]

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How to Control Financial Stress

October 17, 2011

Unless we’re born with a ton of money, most of us worry about our finances. Even if you’re not struggling to make ends meet, you may wonder if you’ll ever pay off your student loans, ever get out from under credit-card debt, ever own your house free and clear, ever manage to save enough to [...]

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Moments of Fame

October 17, 2011

This week the Carnival of Personal Finance appears at Squirrelers, who kindly included Funny’s short squib about the Paypal calculator. At this carnival, take a look at these especially nice posts: At Afford Anything, Paula reflects on an insight gained by visiting a journalism and a blogging convention, back-to-back. This is an interesting and well-written [...]

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Excellent Paypal Tool!

October 15, 2011

Paypal fees amount to an annoying ding: you charge someone $150 for services rendered and you end up shorted $4.65. That’s a pretty hefty fee, compared to a bank charge for an ordinary deposit. And despite the convenience of EFTs in the cloud, it’s unfair: you didn’t do $145 worth of work; you did $150 [...]

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Cloud Computing, Marketing Strategies, Hopeless Jobs, and Mad as a Cat

October 13, 2011

On days like this, my father used to say he “got up on the wrong side of the bed.” Me, I think the explanation is that God Herself is pissed off at me. Can I compute in the cloud? Can our new marketing plan bring us some decently paying work? Are we doomed to an [...]

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The Joy of Listing

October 12, 2011

Yeah, I know: Evan and my other east-of-center friends will be thinking “Yup, the woman lists to the left!” But that tendency notwithstanding, I’m here to testify to the endless benefits of making lists to organize your time and beat yourself into finishing those tasks you just. don’t. WANT. to. do. By this morning I’d [...]

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