Recession Survival Tips

Something promising awaits around the bend... The world is, seemingly, crumbling around us, and somehow, I think I’m better off for it… I don’t own the recession.  I’m not on some hokey, New Age bullshyt, I promise you.  I just work with and am related to a lot of women (in particular) who operate... 

As a little girl, I can recall the sounds of Frankie Beverly, Keith Sweat or “The Elements” wafting through the hall as my momma grooved around the house with a mop, a vacuum cleaner, Windex, and Pledge.  The music soothed her as she tidied the living room and then dared me to “live in it”.  It seems that I have... 

If I had kids–no, just one kid–I’d be under the poor house.  My fate wouldn’t be due to the cost of diapers and bibs or expensive tennis shoes for peer-pressured teenagers.  Another money-sucking area of my budget looms large in my life, and as long as the FDA sees no need to protect me, I see no... 

The government has sunk (understatement alert) a lot of money thus far trying to move the country out of this recession.  As of this writing, their attempts have proven futile.  “Why”, you may wonder, “have we spent all of this money and it has not helped?”  Comparing our economy to a human body... 

There’s an old saying… or maybe it’s a scientific fact.  Either way, “they” say that if there was a nuclear war the animal most fit to survive would be the cockroach.  Well… I guess I’m the cockroach of “the Great Recession.”  I’ve been scavenging for so long I never even bothered to look up and see... 

Here I go again… preaching on the soapbox telling you how to do this and that.  What do I know about making smart decisions?  What do I know about anything?  Not much, but I just know a little about a lot, along with knowledge from past mistakes which gets me pretty far.  I just try my best to make decisions in a...