So thanks to those of you who commented or emailed about my job dilemma post. I think most of us have been in a situation (work or otherwise) where we've had to choose love or money. I chose love, for now anyway. I'm staying at my current job. Here's my...
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Are Coupons All They’re Cut Out For?
First of all, my apologies for the corniness of the title. Even though I usually skirt the edges of corniness, today I just dove right in. Somehow, I just thought "coupon update" was too boring. I decided a photo would help me summarize my coupon experience...
Are Coupons All They're Cut Out For?
First of all, my apologies for the corniness of the title. Even though I usually skirt the edges of corniness, today I just dove right in. Somehow, I just thought "coupon update" was too boring. I decided a photo would help me summarize my coupon experience...
How I Get Motivated To Save: Reverse Psychology
Do I Really Need More Stuff? I Guess I Just Don't Care There is a story in our family of my first Christmas, or one of them anyway. I open a gift and begin playing... with the box. After waiting awhile for me to get tired of it (apparently I wasn't),...
A New Website For Me!
I made the plunge a few weeks ago and decided to finally do it: get my website designed for me. You may say, "Don't you know how to design websites, Nicole, I mean you work for a web company!" Here's the thing. I have no design experience. (Why do...
Too Cute Tuesday: Fortunate Clothes Pins
Too Cute Tuesdays will be a semi-regular series about cute inexpensive things you can make as gifts for you or others. It's something new here at Breaking Even Inc. so let me know whether I should keep it or can it. I recieved a thoughtful gift from a friend who...
The Three Steps Of Buying Online
A Little Extra Effort Could Save You A Ton I finally broke down last week and bought myself a digital voice recorder. My boss was supposed to order me one for the podcast I do for our paper but I'm tired of bugging him... plus, I want to use it guilt-free for my...
Book Review: Nickeled And Dimed
"That's the kind of book that old people read." -12 year old girl I know I finished Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America in a record time of five days. It was less then 250 pages and a remarkably quick read for the subject it was about:...
A Thinking Weekend
I Need To Make A Decision About Work Soon... Many of you know, I work for a local newspaper, which I really like as a job but not as a salary. I understood that initially, they were taking a chance on me. I had no newspaper or web design experience. I was new to the...