Category: Hints
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Tips for a Savvy Thanksgiving
Before you know it Thanksgiving will be upon us. In just over a week we will sit down once again with our families (biological and/or chosen) and gorge upon a feast until we need to unbutton our jeans and snooze on the couch. Whether you are vegetarian or go the traditional turkey route, the holiday…
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Coffee Grounds in the Garden
“A cup of coffee – real coffee – home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java:…
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Dyking up Like.com
“Imitation is the most serious form of flattery” — Proverb I’ve found the next gig for Carson Kressley, the fashion maven on Queer Eye. Last week, Walter S. Mossberg’s column in The Wall Street Journal pointed readers to a site called Like.com. He writes, “Most shoppers would admit to, at one time or another, looking…
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Organize Your Financial Records
Keeping organized financial records is very important but most of us don’t consider it we need to retrieve information, usually at the last minute. Retaining your financial data while having easy access to it is invaluable when preparing your taxes, applying for loans, and monitoring your financial health. If you’re not organized, you’ve doubled your…
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Soda Soaked Laptop
“Accidents, try to change them — it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.” — Pablo Picasso When I interviewed Abigail Garner, the author of Families Like Mine, I asked if there was a price attached to activism? Her answer, “The bigger question is what price is attached to being a small business owner, especially in a…
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How to Ask for More Money
Are you paid what you’re worth? Do you believe you deserve more money for the job you do? Are you making a job change and want the money to be as lucrative as possible in your new position? If so, you need to ask for the money! I don’t know about you but negotiating salary…
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Getting Organized: The Desk
I don’t know about you all, but I’m pretty busy. Between work (and travel for work) and family and fun, there’s a lot going on. But I find that having some kind of system makes it quick and simple to take care of bills and investments, have access to receipts and records, and see where…
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Cancellation tips
It’s all in the fine print: non-refundable tickets, auto-renewing subscriptions, opt-out charges. You really have to be on your toes these days as companies figure out ever more devious ways to take advantage of our high-speed, high convenience ways. Sometimes you can negotiate. Last week our CEO imposed a travel ban on all staff the…
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Reverse-Engineer Your Life
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” — Abraham Maslow Nate Nickerson, the former managing editor of FastCompany, wrote an article on priorities and how it impacts happiness. He writes, “A few years ago, a colleague in his fifties mentioned a TV program in…
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Making Peace with Plastic Grocery Bags
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss in The Lorax I confess… I’m not the most frugal person. I even get fewer points for recycling. But it’s never too late to learn a tip or two about frugality and alternative uses for…
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