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Guest Post: It’s the Economy, Ladies

Today we welcome back guest blogger Susan. I have always admired her professionalism and diplomatic approach to feminism, and this post certainly does not disappoint. What do you think? Do you believe the financial crisis may not have happened if women had been in charge? Do you think that women need to take a more proactive and entrepreneurial role in this economy? After the financial crisis that put this country in it's current mess, I saw lots of speculation floating around that if women had been in charge of our financial institutions, this would never have happened. Interesting. Now women are being looked at as a possible fix for our unemployment woes. Women in tech is a recurring feature on my blog, mostly because I am...

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Safe Deposit Boxes: The New Savings Method?

A few weeks ago I looked into procuring a larger safe deposit box to store our valuables and important documents, and I had a heckuva time finding one! All the bank branches within a 15-mile radius had waiting lists at least a year long. And the CitiBank in Chinatown where we had been guaranteed a free safe deposit box when we first opened our account just prior to getting married? The waiting list was a staggering 3 YEARS.  8-O I could only think of two possible reasons for the sudden decrease in safe deposit availabilities: People are starting to become smarter about their valuables; or With the unstable economy, people are less inclined to invest their money in intangibles such as stocks and more...

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Advertising Revenue: The First Month

It has been two months since I first decided to start accept advertising on this blog, and just a little over a month since the first ad appeared. Now, I know that no one likes a braggart. And I am not in any way writing this post as a way to scream, "Look how much money I'm making!" Rather, I decided to reveal my first month's advertising revenue (and by that, I mean the first month when the ads first appeared, not when I began accepting ads) solely based on the fact that there are so damn few bloggers who openly share their earnings. When I was first contemplating ads, the biggest questions I had were: "How much can I make?" "Which advertising method(s)?" And since I...

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What Costs More in 2011?

Living in an area with fairly good public transportation — in addition to having an infant who does not like car rides much — I hardly ever drive anymore. I even walk to the grocery store, pushing Claire in her stroller (thank goodness our stroller has a huge bottom compartment that fits 5-6 full grocery bags). So when I took the car out Friday night and saw that I was running dangerously low on gas, I was in for a rude awakening. $55 for a full tank of gas??!!! Apparently this wasn't that bad, either. Friends tell me that gas prices have actually decreased in the past month, and that they were regularly forking over more than $60. And this was in the state of New...

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