Women Hate Shopping, Too

Posted by | Posted on 15-01-2010

There are a lot of myths when it comes to shopping, and one of the biggest is that women love to shop while men hate shopping. The truth, according to Lee Eisenberg, author of Shoptimism, is that men and women both love and hate to shop in about the same proportional numbers.

The same is true with compulsive buying. While it is often viewed that women are more likely to be compulsive buyers, the truth is that both men and women are compulsive shoppers at about the same rate. The difference is that men are often better at hiding their compulsive shopping by saying that it’s a “hobby.”

Where the two sexes do deviate when it comes to shopping is their willingness to return items to the store. Women

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Relieve Stress And Organize Your Life By Organizing Your Closet

Posted by | Posted on 15-01-2010

Summary: A cluttered, messy closet in which you can’t find anything can stress out anyone. Relieve stress and organize your life by organizing your closet. Go through your closet and decide whether to Recycle, Donate or Re-Gift every item. Use storage boxes and containers to control your closet, and label everything in your closet so you know exactly where to find things.

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5 ideas for Conan O’Brien’s new job

Posted by | Posted on 14-01-2010

Conan calling it quits

Image from Wikimedia Commons.

There are a lot of different rumors flying around about what Conan O’Brien is going to do about this whole “Tonight Show,” Jay Leno debacle. TMZ, People Magazine and the New York Daily News are all reporting that Friday, Jan. 22, will likely be Conan O’Brien’s last day hosting “The Tonight Show.”

Sadly, the rumor also goes that Jay Leno will go back to hosting the show. That’s about as good an idea as robbing a payday loan store. Nonetheless, it

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Instant Decision Bad Credit Loans: Financial Relief Without Any Discomfort

Posted by | Posted on 14-01-2010

As for applicants with serious credit issues, availing loans to overcome any sort of financial crunch does not seem to be a possibility. However, it is not that applicants having negative credit score cannot acquire any external funds. This is what instant decision bad credit loans are meant for. With these loans, the applicant can now derive the funds necessary in a convenient manner.

bad credit loans instant decision are short term loans, made available to the applicants suffering form bad credit issues such as arrears and defaults. Since these are short term loans, there is no need to pledge any collateral or for that undergo any credit check.

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Decision Making Skills are Essential for a Good Income

Posted by | Posted on 13-01-2010

Want to save more? Sometimes, having a good career is just the way to do it. So, how do you advance your career? Listen to what this guest poster has to say.

I ran the marketing team for a technology company in Silicon Valley in my previous job. One of my direct reports, a smart and talented young man, would come to me with virtually every decision he had to make. No matter how many times I explained that I expected him to make decisions himself, he would invariably come to me a few hours later with another. At one point, the email from this individual accounted for about 30% of my daily email traffic.

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Need A Job? Job Resources and Employment Statistics

Posted by | Posted on 13-01-2010

We’ve all seen the grim employment statistics. Admittedly, I’ve been fixated with the unemployment rate in recent months, where I tracked it via the colorful maps in these articles:

  • U.S. Unemployment Rates and the History of Recession: A Visual Guide
  • National Unemployment Statistics: Job Losses At Record Highs
  • California Unemployment Rate History: A Visual Guide

Well, even as our economy chugs along, with the stock market creeping ever so slowly higher, it appears that there isn’t as much optimism about our job situation over the next few years. Accor

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