Now I love cooking as much as the next person –- in fact, probably a lot more. But when someone gave me a pasta maker, I had my doubts over whether I would use it. I also had serious doubts about whether it would even be worth my while putting the effort into making home …
For some of us, how much we earn in a month is basically the only amount we can work with. Thus, some of us struggle to make ends meet given this budget, and to live with the limited resources we have. Many folks also understand that if we spend too much, we’ll definitely decimate the …
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Mashed potatoes are incredibly hard to judge when you are making them for several people. Sometimes I feel that I can’t get it right. If the potatoes are too soft and I boil them for too long — usually because I forget and don’t quite catch them in time — I’m left with a saucepan …
Moonlighting is something that many people are either doing now, or are wanting to do, in order to try and make ends meet. The past recession has been hard on us all, but there is no doubt that some have found it harder to cope with than others. You can moonlight in one of two …
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Curious, isn’t it? You must surely have read stories about entrepreneurs and how they made their first million. It is something we all want to know more about, and it’s not hard to see why. Most of us would be delighted to make one million dollars, so it stands to reason that we would want …
Should you grow your own potatoes rather than buy them at the store? You can save money by doing so of course, but there’s more to it. I wouldn’t have believed it unless I tried it myself, but you cannot beat homegrown potatoes for taste, flavor and freshness. Even the act of brushing off the …
There are lots of advantages to being self employed. For instance, you can be your own boss, you can take control of your business and you can look forward to arranging your time off whenever you need or want to. But of course you won’t be paid for that time off when you do eventually …
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There are a couple of words that keep cropping up again and again during economic and financial downtrends. Those words are “job redundancy” and “job cuts”. Hopefully it hasn’t applied to you personally or to anyone you know. But the fact of the matter is that this has probably already happened to you or someone …
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