Great posts on other sites this week

Posted by chica with issues under issues roundup

I have seen some great posts this week from other blogs. So, here is a list of some of those posts:

Know Your Passenger Rights When Flying In Europe at The Consumerist
7 Powerful Tips to Overcome Failure at Life Optimizer
Moby Donates Songs to Filmmakers at Cinematical
What’s Lurking in Fast Food? at Diet […]

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Did you know that they will pay you to live in Alaska?

Posted by chica with issues under general issues

Have you see the story from the Washington Post, Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth? The headline caught my eye so I checked it out. Along the way I learned something interesting. It’s something that I feel like I should have already known, but I didn’t so I thought I would share.
Apparenlty, if […]

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How much are you paying for gas?

Posted by chica with issues under general issues

I saw a post on the current price of gas at My Two Dollars, Some Californians Are Paying $5.00 For A Gallon Of Regular Unleaded Gasoline and suddenly got thankful for the price at my local gas station.
At my local gas station, the pain at the pump for me is $3.17 for the cheapest […]

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11 Ways to Reduce Stress and Relax

Posted by chica with issues under personal development issues

Looking for ways to relax and reduce stress? Try out some of these 11 tips:

Stop and practice some calming breathing exercises
Press your palm in the center with your thumb of your other hand to release tension
Get some Chinese meditation orbs and roll them around in your hand to bring about calmness
Drip some cold water on […]

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If you’re in college, it’s a good time to start a business

Posted by chica with issues under job, career, school related issues

There is a great post up at Finance is Personal on Why College is the Best Time to Start Your Own Business. To give you a preview of the article, I think the underlying theme here is this little nugget -
Fortunately, there’s a four-to-five year period in our lives when we don’t have these obligations […]

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I got the new job!

Posted by chica with issues under job, career, school related issues

To those of you that sent me your good luck thoughts - many thanks! They seemed to work! I got the call this morning that I got the job. The only downer is that the pay is a little less than I thought. For the first 60 days it will only be $12,500 more than […]

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Watch out for college scholarship scams

Posted by chica with issues under job, career, school related issues

If there is one thing that all of us have in common it is a love of free money - especially when that free money is free college money. Sadly, this makes us easy prey for scammers. There are a lot of college scholarship scams out there. And if you are getting ready to apply […]

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Send me good luck thoughts

Posted by chica with issues under job, career, school related issues

I just got back from an oddly late in the day job interview. The interview was at 4:30 pm, which is kind of weird to me. Anyways, the interview was for a senior level accountant position with Time Warner Cable. If I get it that will be a $15,000 salary jump for me! Wow! That […]

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UPS and their credit card policy

Posted by chica with issues under money issues

I do a lot of shipping of various things so I have an account with both UPS and FedEx. I signed up initially through an organization that I was a member of as it allowed me to get a discount on shipping. In my past experience, FedEx has usually been the cheaper of the two, […]

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Which comes first: weights or cardio?

Posted by chica with issues under health and wellness issues

As someone that is trying to be more fit and healthy I try to go to the gym as much as I can. For the times that I can’t make it to the gym I have some stuff at home to help me stay fit. I have a resistance band, some weights and some yoga […]

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