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March 12, 2010

7 Habits to Boost Your Savings.

(Ed. Note) It’s no secret that the unemployed like to or have to save money where they can. As such an important component of our lifestyle it was only right to team up with FrugalNYC, a premier resource for frugal city living, as we present Frugal Fridays! Enjoy.

The savings rate for US households has steadily gone up in the last couple of years. One benefit to the Great Recession is that it makes people think about what is necessary and putting everything else in the nice to have category. Ask any personal finance blogger, and you will get a list of ways to save and boost your savings rate. Here is my take on some habits that can help you boost your savings, so you can get what you really want in the near future.

Seven Habits Of Saving:

Use your neighborhood library for books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, video games and all sorts of entertainment. I bet you didn’t know half that list was offered by the NYC library system.
Eat home cooked meals. Bring food from home. Doing this can save you an average of $50 to $70 a week, assuming your lunch costs around $10 to $15 each. Yes, you can find cheaper fare, such as the $1 pizza slice I tweeted about several months ago, but how much pizza can you really eat? Home cooked / prepared is usually much healthier to boot!

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March 11, 2010

Music Monday Mixtape

Hey 405ers!

Good news — We have compiled all of our #MusicMonday posts in one place for your listening pleasure. It’s a known fact, music inspires and at a time like this we’re all in need of a little inspiration. Just jump over to http://www.405clubmusic.tumblr.com or click on the itunes icon up in our header.

Once you’re there you have the option of playing each song one at a time or if you’d like to stream them as a continuous mix just click the “Click to play all” link on the streampad.

Enjoy!

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Unemployment: New Claims Down Slightly

We see some slight improvement in the weekly unemployment indicator. I would have liked to have seen a bigger move, as we have entered a period with no obvious short term trend. This week’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report has been released. New claims dropped to 462,000. Last week’s…

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March 10, 2010

Lemonade

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After a 37 year-old copywriter is laid off from a large ad-agency in 2008, he starts a blog for other unemployed ad professionals. Once the site launched, he decided to create a promotional video featuring the faces and stories of other laid-off execs.

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SWUF: The Trickle Down Effect.

Ed. Note) We are excited to introduce Lesley Pink, an editor and writer who has worked in marketing, financial journalism, and immigration law. She wishes she could swim for a living, but for now you can find her here in her new “Single White Unemployed Female” column. Enjoy.

My bank account isn’t the only thing taking a hit during my first experience with unemployment. My self-esteem is suffering, too.

Of course, I didn’t get all my self-worth from my job, but I did get something out of it. I had a sense of accomplishment, an office, an assistant, and yes, that paycheck. I was being paid for my work and, along with that, my experience and education.

And then that was taken away and my editing background was deemed insignificant, my Masters degree considered [even more] worthless. Since my experience and education didn’t seem to count for anything and since I could be so easily discarded, didn’t that make me, by extension, worthless and expendable?

I have been struggling with these feelings for a couple months now…

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