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Home Economics
Time Management 101
Over at Money Saving Mom, Crystal is doing a great series on time management, which (brag alert!) features 168 Hours. Earlier this week, she posted an essay called “Stop Trying to ‘Do It All’” telling her readers that no, she does not actually make sweaters from sheep she sheared herself. This is good to know, since careful readers… read more »
Good Riddance! (How Goodwill turns your old CDs into job search classes)
(Dear readers: Below is a guest post from Lorie Marrero, author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life, and creator of the website ClutterDiet.com. As some of you know, my landlord recently undertook a renovation that involved my losing two closets. I took the opportunity to go through my old clothes, and now ha… read more »
Generation Earn: Kimberly Palmer
Since learning I will be writing a money book, I’ve become obsessed with other money books, which is why we’re welcoming Kimberly Palmer to My168Hours today.
I first “met” Kim when I was fact-checking her columns for USA Today. She had been a previous intern there as well. My favorite piece of hers was one about the predictable alar… read more »
Silly things we do to save money (by spending time)
I have been perusing personal finance websites lately, and came across a fascinating post on Wisebread about making your own mustard. Blogger Marla Walters tried it after experiencing sticker shock when confronted with a recipe that called for whole-grain mustard, retailing at $5.50 for a 6-oz jar. The process took three attempts before she made a batch t… read more »
Cars, the Ziploc bag and the hedonic treadmill
In much of America, a car is necessary if you want to get anywhere. And so, while I’ve seen various figures, it appears that roughly 9 in 10 American households own cars. Since they are necessary, and expensive, I imagined that transportation would consume a larger share of the budgets of lower-income families than upper-income families.
This assump… read more »
