Many women have had to face the reality of either returning to work or working longer hours in order to make ends meet.  This may be due to a spouse or partner losing their job, or their own job loss.  But where does this leave working women during the recession? 2009 saw a drastic increase  in [...]...

Remember this story?  Most of you were fired up, and rightfully so. It’s a$$inine to bar someone to get a job because they have bad credit. This is why we have criminal background checks. Perhaps a remedy would be to give the person a mandatory personal finance coach to work with them [...]...

Here’s the oxymoron of the day. If hospitals start telling obstetricians stop doing C-sections (or try to reduce them), that’s problematic for hospitals because they make money off them.  So they are less likely to engage in C-sections because many hospitals are struggling to stay afloat.   But get this, if you’re a woman who has [...]...

If you’re like me, then you dread filing your taxes in the face of the looming April 15th deadline.  It conjures up thoughts of going through endless receipts, spending hours going through yearly expenses and W2s to reconcile everything for Uncle Sam. Well, there’s an app for that!  Enter Turbo Tax Snap Tax. Got some time to [...]...

Well, that should read why I ended one but I already have one.  If you’ve been following my tweets then you know that my car was broken into today and they tried to steal the GPS and possibly the car itself. Police caught someone trying to break in my car outside the school. I am PISSED!! [...]...

Surely you’ve seen the newest video or article going around discussing the single black woman’s plight around finding a mate within the black community.  If you haven’t, read on, the overall comments on the subject will be interesting. After watching the video yesterday, the part that jumped out at me was the discussion around money/finances in [...]...

As of December 31, 2009, 2009 will be the year that was, not what 2010 will be.  I’ve gotten so many messages from readers pouring out their hearts about how horrible 2009 was partnered with the insecurity of what 2010 will bring. STOP! Stop being sad/angry/mad/ about what 2009 wasnt and make plans for what 2010 will [...]...

DC is no stranger to the high cost of living you often see in New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.  But can you live on $30,000 a year there?  This question came up on a listserv I frequent and the responses were equally divided amongst those who felt it would be damn near impossible [...]...

Marie Claire has a very interesting article that details the 5 Secrets of The Highest Paid Women and I agree with their rationale. 1.  Be Yourself. In order to achieve anything in life, you need to be authentic and true to who you are.  This allows people to understand who you are at the core while allowing [...]...

I got this question on another blog: Your husband is worth $1 billion dollars a year. You find out that he has cheated on you. He offers you 20 million to stay for 2 years. Do you a. you have morals and you leave him b. you have morals you beat him with a club and then leave [...]...

I’m in the process of putting together The Commandments Of Finance for every woman and Ive come up with the following so far, please free to add your own in the comments. We’ll discuss these in detail in the coming weeks/days. 1. Thou Shalt Not Make A Man A Financial Plan 2. Thou Shalt [...]...

Yes I know that I haven’t updated the blog in a few weeks, but I have good reason!  I’ve been studying for my licensing exam and the GRE at the same time along with balancing my J-O-B.  So last Saturday I took the licensing exam  which meant taking some time off from writing the blog [...]...

So I know you’re saying, find my passion? Ginger, I can hardly find a job I like much less talk about my passion! Those of you that do have jobs, I know these days may find it hard to tolerate let alone fathom adding the word passionate as a descriptor to your day job. Been [...]...