Keeping a healthy relationship with your borrowing is key to your financial health, especially in tough economic times.  We’ve looked at saving for a big ticket item and buying your holiday gifts with your remaining paychecks for the year.  Now here are five simple ways to keep your credit cards under control. 1)  Check your […]

Cause marketing. Sounds wonkish, doesn’t it? But you’ve probably encountered this type of marketing more than you think. Ever heard the phrase “shop for the cure”? Cause marketing occurs when a company gives a portion of its profits to a charitable entity. It’s presented as a win-win relationship, because cause marketing not only benefits the […]

No, I’m not one of those über efficient women who have everything bought by March. But I am a budget-obsessed shopper, pacing my gift purchases by the paycheck.  Depending on when and what you celebrate and how you get paid, chances are you have a max of 10 paychecks between you and this year’s holiday […]

“He who sits in the house of grief will eventually sit in the garden.” —   Hafiz Hard times, more than any others, reveal to us the truth that the signature of our humanity is our emotional nature. What differentiates us from stones and butterflies is the degree to which what happens to us affects us […]

You like sex too much. My last girlfriend didn’t need sex as much as you do.  You’re pushing the physical part too fast. I’m not into you that way as much as you are. If you’ve heard these excuses from men before, chances are it could be because he has Erectile Dysfunction (ED), and is […]

I admit it.  I’m addicted.  Facebook is the first thing I check in the morning before I get started on my day, and the last thing I check before I go to bed. I use it to keep in touch with friends who live on the east coast, family who I don’t get to see […]

Known for her opposition to feminism and for her campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly has found a new target – unmarried women. Schlafly, who has endorsed 60 Republican candidates in this year’s election, may have given the Democrats an early election day gift at a Troy, Michigan, fundraiser on Saturday. […]

Some 4 million dogs are euthanized each year in the US and Canada alone, primarily for lack of room and food.  Launched this spring, the Plus One Movement from pet food maker Darford International aims to do something about it. Attached to every Darford box of treats and food is an extra meal of the […]

Finding a female friend is actually harder than getting a date! After over 10 years in Manhattan, I was moved up to Toronto, Canada just after 9/11 at the age of 36.  Easy, I thought.  I moved to about 30 different places/countries when I was young so I’ll be able to transplant easily. Two days […]

You’re warmed by the summer sun and wiggling your toes in flip flops at this point in the year.  It’s a great time, before the tempting fall clothes are really out, to organize your wardrobe and give you more room in your closet. Take it off and put it on It pays – twice a […]