Girl, Your Man’s Making You Broke: AKA Scrub Alert + MORE

If you are like me, you live two lives at the same time.  There is the life that we live each day, and an an “unlived” life, of sorts, inside our head.
As Steven Pressfield describes in his book,  “The War of Art”, between these two lives of ours there is Resistance:

Have you ever brought home a treadmill and let it gather dust in the attic? Ever resolved on a diet, a course of yoga, a meditation practice? Have you ever felt a call to embark upon a spiritual practice, dedicate yourself to a humanitarian calling, commit your life to the service of others? Have you ever wanted to be a mother, a doctor, an advocate for the weak and helpless; to run for office, crusade for the planet, campaign for world peace or to preserve the environment? Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a painter who doesn’t paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is…

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Last week, the US Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act, otherwise known as the Internet Sales Tax. While the odds are against its passage in the House, it does have some bipartisan support. Opinions are wildly divergent on the bill, but I for one think the internet sales tax is a bad idea and a bad law…

Why I Quit My Job: A Club Thrifty Confessional
Club Thrifty – Stop spending. Start living.I have an announcement to make…and it’s a doozy.  At the beginning of April, I quit my job.  I walked away from my super stable and well-paid 9-5 job and leaped toward the unknown.  I put in 2-weeks notice but agreed to work until the end of the month…and now its done!
Why Did I Quit My Job?
A few months ago, I wrote about how I was a workaholic…

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It’s easy to commit a faux pas at a job interview. You’re nervous and tense, so you make mistakes. But the more prepared you are when you go in, the less likely you are to do something stupid – like ask a question that will shoot down your chances of being hired.
Wondering what questions you should avoid? Here are 15 questions best asked, if at all, after you get the offer:
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**Just FYI: This post reads better if you hum TLCs awarding winning song, “No Scrubs” as background accompaniment. Before anybody gets upset, scrub-like behavior can be found in guys and girls.**
Ever have a, “friend” cough cough, who’s significant other is a real user? You know, a first class, “scrub”? If you haven’t had this experience (good for you, keep doing what you’re doing), but if you have, here are some of the tell tale warning signs you snagged yourself a deadbeat…

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A windy day was in the forecast with gusts up to 40mph. I didn’t care, I was going for my run. The wind smacked me in the face almost immediately as I started off down the street. I tucked my head down, turned the volume up on my iPod, and cut through the wind for the first half of my run…

I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about student loan debt lately. “Student loan debt is killing the economy” is the common phrase I’ve heard lately. Then they quote that the average college graduate has over $25,000 of student loan related debt according to some survey and that this debt puts off the normal spending cycle of someone with their first post college job…

I wanted to tell a little story today and give you an insight into the world of e-commerce.  Now you are probably wondering what the title has to do with e-commerce, but I will bring it all together.  As some of you know, I ran my own online electronics company for about 4 years.  I learned most of it by doing and just having drive to succeed…

Welcome to a new feature I plan on running from time to time here on Frugal Rules – Things I Would Never do. It’s meant to be part rant, part shedding light on unwise practices and part ways to avoid unnecessary debt. It’s not intended to be judgmental, but largely to help those that may be facing similar issues and sharing some things I have learned through mistakes I have made in the past…

Today is an interesting day.  Exactly five months ago, my sweet, beautiful, wonderful girl was born.  Every day, I am so incredibly thankful that she is now part of my life.  She is makes everything so much better for me, in every way I can imagine (and many that I can’t, prior to them happening)…

Being that yesterday was Mother’s Day, I thought I’d write an article about how influential my mom has been in my life.  Now, if I were to name everything she’s taught me, we’d all be here awhile, so I’ll just touch on a few of the major personal finance and business tips that I’ve picked up from her…

One of the things I firmly believe in as a young professional is the need to always look for ways to improve yourself. Because of that, I have been a frequent reader of blogs and they have helped me out a lot! Here are some great posts I read this week:Link LoveJohn from Frugal Rules wrote about things he wished he knew when he graduated from college…

Check out my guest post over at Cordelia Calls it Quits.  I have been a long time fan of Kelly’s and I am very grateful for the chance to guest post.  I love her idea of quitting things that no … Continue reading →The post Guest Post for Cordelia Calls it Quits appeared first on Financial Black Sheep…

There are many parent debating whether or not they should pay for college for their children. For us, we’re a bit divided. My husband and I want to have a bit of money to help out with college, but we don’t want to give an unlimited line of credit.
We’ve discussed this before as well…

Safeway (SWY) is one of the largest food and drug retailers (better known as supermarkets) in North America.  SWY has about 1700 stores mostly located on the West Coast but also in the Southwest, Chicago and Mid-Atlantic.  They even have stores in Canada.  In order to support all of these stores, SWY has its own network of distribution, manufacturing, and processing facilities…

Hey everyone! Happy Monday. We are leaving St. Thomas today and we had so much fun. I’m sad that my vacation is over, but I’m honestly ready to go home. I miss my dogs, oh yeah and I miss W It was a vacation with my sister and it was much needed!
A couple of you have asked me to do a full St…

Are you making good money? Are you saving some of it? If yes, the next question is “Are you investing it?” Instead of just putting it in saving and checking account collecting dust in the form of measly interest, you’d better be investing it. However, in order to invest in a company, you should understand …

Like many of you, my web surfing has taken me to many corners of the personal finance blog world. As I’ve been surfing, I’ve noticed that sometimes there is a bit of tension between the relative merits of diversification and focused investing. Having tried both styles, I thought I’d share my thoughts with you…