Sometimes my life gets filled with too much work, my to-do lists get crazy, I have too many chores and family obligations that I crash and realize my life is out of balance. Don’t get me wrong, these episodes don’t occur too often and I do OK for the most part. But when it does happen I [...]
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A Place Where We Talk About Tips On Saving Cash, Alternative Types of Investments, Life Experiences and the Decisions We Make About Money
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Apr 19
Great Affordable Gift: Personalized Journal
This personalized journal makes a great gift for a loved one who loves to sketch, write or make lists. Why not decorate a plain notebook or journal with a picture of your loved one when he was a kid or use one of your friend’s doodles that she made when she was six?
Total cost for [...]
Apr 12
Organize and Save: Lower Your Tax Accountant Fees
Instead of handing all your year’s receipts and tax papers to your accountant in a shoebox, why not create a nice spreadsheet for her? Your accountant will appreciate this since she will spend less time filing your return and therefore you’ll almost certainly get charged less for her services.
Create a list of categories for your [...]
Apr 12
A Money Diet?
I was speaking to a good friend of mine about money recently; let’s call her Ellen. I hadn’t spoken to Ellen for a long while because she went into a sort of hibernation. This hiding from the world was brought about by her work circumstances. Because of the recession, her hours at work have been [...]
Apr 05
Organize and Save Time: Your Receipts in an Accordion File
Here’s a neat little time-saving tip I learned in Business School. At the end of each day (or each week), gather all the receipts you’ve accumulated and categorize and organize them into an accordion file.
This tip is especially helpful if you own a small or home-based business. But even if you aren’t a business-person, organize [...]
