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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

You hear in the news magic numbers for retirement or for a mortgage and wonder if you’re on track for either.  Here are a number of free online calculators that hopefully can help you make sense of your own numbers and help get you to each, comfortably. Online financial tools that can help figure a […]

Who?  Mary Ann Mayer, Mt. Washington Bed & Breakfast Mary Ann Mayer was a typically low paid – but helping her community – social worker on Long Island when she took a short vacation to local Bed and Breakfasts.  Her B&B experience was so positive she says, “I started out thinking I’d never stay in […]

We’re buying the homes First-time homebuyers largely have been credited for the slight upturn in America’s housing market. But the demographic group with the largest upward trend in homebuying is single women. A recent National Association of REALTORS (NAR) report reveals that in 2009, 21% of homebuyers were single women—as opposed to only 10% of single […]

Being single and starting your own business can be challenging?  How do you support yourself on one income while you’re trying to get things up and going? FREE RESOURCES FOR STARTING OR BUILDING YOUR SMALL BUSINESS.  Here are two women who launched their businesses while they were living single: Saskia Strick, International Checkout Saskia left the […]

May 23-25 2010 is National Small Business Week, this year honoring the approximately 27.2 small businesses in America.  More than half of us either own or work for a small business. Small businesses create an estimated 60-80% of new jobs in the country. With approximately 60% of U.S. small businesses owned by women and single […]

Buying a big ticket item offered sellers and buyers little in the way of barganing power. But we found a new way to create more buying power for sellers and dependable profit for ecommerce retailers!

Every single woman deserves financial health.  But how do you build it? Send your money questions from easy to extreme to laura@mebydesign.net and I’ll have a lawyer, accountant or financial planner lend me their expertise for the answer.  You’ll also win a copy of “what we’re reading” when we post it. Robert Frabasile, a CPA […]