By kaleyehret on August 18th, 2010
You can read parts 1-4 of this series here.
Creativity. What pops into your mind when I mention that creativity was the final piece to our lay-off survival preparation?
If you picture me with my sewing machine, making cute little outfits for my boys, you would be…wrong. (My Mom did sign me up for sewing lessons growing [...]
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By kaleyehret on August 10th, 2010
You can read parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series here.
It’s time to share the next letter in our BASIC lay-off survival prep: I is for Investing
B-Budget
A-Apartment
S-Saving
I-Investing
C-
While there are benefits to investing in in the stock market, I’m referring to a different kind of investing.
It’s a kind of investing that frankly, I’m not [...]
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By kaleyehret on July 2nd, 2010
You can read parts 1 and 2 of this series here.
When I was younger, my parents gave me a set of three envelopes and a little notebook. One envelope was for saving, one for spending, and the other for giving. The little notebook was meant to be my method of keeping track of my cash [...]
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By kaleyehret on June 15th, 2010
You can read the first post in this series here.
I shared in my first post in this series, “How We Prepared for a Lay-off” that we survived a year and a half of uncertain income without going into debt. It was the choices that we made prior to the layoff that truly [...]
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By kaleyehret on June 7th, 2010
We all hope that the worst of the Great Recession is over. However, in just the past few months I can count at least 5 people that I know personally who have been laid off. That doesn’t make me feel very hopeful.
I certainly hope (and believe!) that most of you will not have [...]
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