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Drive Safely
By now you’ve probably heard of Oprah’s “Don’t Text and Drive” campaign. Now there’s a bunch of apps to make it easier to resist the temptation of texting while behind the wheel. One of our favorites is DriveSafe.ly, a free app available for Android, iPhone and Blackberry (Windows phone coming soon).
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Finding Your Dentist on Groupon?
Lately in an effort to reduce employee costs, it seems like some corporations are starting to limit some employer-paid benefits, especially health insurance. Some are going as far as limiting the number of health plan choices, choosing plans with fewer in-network physicians or even reducing some benefits altogether like dental care
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Daily Deals With a Purpose
To all our DMV (DC-Maryland-Virginia) A-Listers, did you know you could take advantage of daily deals and help a non-profit at the same time? Check out Deals for Deeds, a website similar to Groupon and LivingSocial with daily discounts at local retailers, small businesses and restaurants but with a twist. Instead
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What’s In the Fridge?
Whether you’re a busy professional or working hard on the construction site, sometimes the last thing you want to think about coming home is what’s for dinner. Usually when that happens we’re quick to run to our nearest restaurant (even worse, fast food) which be dangerous for our waistline and
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Don’t Get Shoeboxed In
If you’re like most people, when tax time comes around you’re usually scrambling trying to find that receipt for donated clothes to maximize your tax deduction. Or even on a monthly basis, maybe you’re looking for a solution to help organize your monthly receipts to keep your budget in check.
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Money Movement Mondays: A Peek into Herman Cain’s
9-9-9 Plan
Herman Cain, the GOP’s flavor of the month has been giving us quite a show over the past few weeks. From not wanting to be called African-American to his lack of involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, he’s beginning to remind me of Chuck Taylor from the Chappelle Show. Anyway,
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Unsubscribe Me!
Tired of getting those same old emails that you can’t remember how they got your email address in the first place? Fortunately there’s a free tool at unsubscribe.com that helps clean up the email clutter and protects you from harmful phishing and virus attacks. There’s also a way to connect
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Do You Really Need the Upgrade?
With recent announcements for Amazon Kindle Fire, iPhone 5 and Verizon’s Droid Bionic we all may be tempted to join the bandwagon to get the latest technology. But as we all know, new technology comes at a price and sometimes our budget takes the biggest hit. Here are some questions to ask
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How to Master the GMAT
Without Going Broke
All of your friends left you for this week’s National Black MBA Conference and now you’ve finally decided it’s time to buckle down and get that MBA. First things first you have to pass the GMAT. But with some prep course fees higher than rent, your budget may not be able to handle
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Your Dollar Counts
I’m big on customer service. I worked as a front desk agent all through high school and college so I learned pretty early what world class service looks like. I’m a letter writing, survey taking, manager calling type customer who reports on both the good and bad. Since I use my
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