Posts Tagged ‘advice’

Shattered eyeshadow

January 26, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Your financial worries are over. In the money-saving DIY category: How to fix shattered eyeshadow. From the EnKore Makeup YouTube channel.

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The handwriting on the wall

September 22, 2009Jon Brooks Comments Off

Let’s pluck the link ”30 Signs You’re About to Lose Your Job” out from the chorus line of the last post and give it a starring role here. Or at least a co-starring one. Because apparently, there’s a cottage industry on the Web in letting people know the signs that they’re about to be fired. A quick [...]

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Chronicle of a personal financial crisis

August 20, 2009Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

The prolonged recession has made the potential loss of a home a painful reality for millions of formerly comfortable owners. Today, the Mortgage Bankers Association released more unwelcome news on that front: A record-high 13% of mortgage holders are either behind on their payments or in foreclosure. That’s a scary number of people facing an [...]

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Hacking life

August 10, 2009Jon Brooks Comments Off

In the Great Recession of 2008-09 (but maybe not ’10?) do-it-yourself activities have become, in some cases, a matter of economic survival. For the types of projects people are tackling themselves, check out this piece on the top “do it yourself” searches, posted on Yahoo!’s Buzz Log. Along those lines, if you still haven’t visited [...]

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