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This Is How You Get a New Job This Year
Whether you're unemployed or looking to take your career to the next level, there are ways to snag a new job before the end of this year. Yes — given the stubbornly high unemployment rate, and the fact that many employers are bombarded with resumes and applications, getting noticed isn't without its challenges. But don't let this discourage you. Here's a look at 10 ways to get a new job this year.
Best Money Tips: Tried-and-Tested Tips For a Frugal Life
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some wonderful articles on tried-and-tested tips for a frugal life, what to do to shine at work, and tricks for spotting the best deals.
Top 5 Articles
66 Tried-and-Tested Tips for a Frugal Life — To live a frugal life, don't rent a modem and look for cheaper means of transportation. [PopSugar Smart Living]
If You Want To Shine at Work, Do These 5 Things — Handling bad situations like a leader can enable you to shine at work. [Lifehack]
The Simple 5-Step Plan to Complete Money Management
Do you struggle with managing your money? Is staying on top of your finances complicated and time-consuming for you?
If so, follow the simple five step plan below — and the calculators and tools suggested for each — to get in control. With these simple tools, you have everything you need to make sure you're achieving your financial goals. (See also: Painless Ways to Manage Money With a Partner)
1. Create a Debt Elimination Plan
This is the most important tool. You can't build wealth and win the money game as long as you're in debt.
How to Get Travel Discounts on Stuff You've Already Booked
Travel booking is a complex game. You spend hours researching and monitoring various websites to get the best deals on flights, hotel reservations, and rental cars. If the price drops after all your hard work, you can feel like all your effort has been wasted. (See also: Secrets of Last Minute Travel)
Fortunately, there are several tools you can now use to protect yourself from price fluctuations. These tools monitor prices, so you can take advantage of any price drops that happen — even after you've made a booking.
5 Awesome Cooking Tricks for Single People
You're eating another bowl of cereal or a single serve microwave meal — again. You don't have a lot of time, and because it's just you for dinner, why go crazy, right? Wrong! You are the very best thing you've got in your life, and you need to take care of you. (See also: Bulk Buying Basics)
12 Ways to Cut Down on Garbage and Save Money Too!
When I was a child, my family saved hundreds of dollars a year by cancelling our residential trash service and hauling our own junk to the dump instead. Once a month my sister and I would load the household garbage into the pickup truck and escort our father to the town dump. We liked going to the dump. The spectacle of sanitation workers racing around the garbage pit on their bulldozers had an entertaining "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" quality. Also, as a reward for our services, our dad would take us for breakfast at Denny's on the way home.
7 Secrets to Scoring the Best Price When Buying on eBay
Everybody loves a good online bargain, and eBay is one of those places where you can find great deals...or you could be totally ripped off. Here are the secrets to getting the best price on eBay. (See also: 5 Things You Can Resell on eBay That Still Make Money)
1. Search for Misspelled Items
You know what you want: a Tiffany's silver bracelet. Like everybody else you're going to type "tiffany silver bracelet" in the search box and start browsing sellers. The problem with this approach is that you may get in bidding wars with other people because you're looking where everybody is looking.
Best Money Tips: Ways to Eat Well on the Cheap
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some fantastic articles on eating well on the cheap, saving on airline fees, and the best and worst cities for savers.
Top 5 Articles
4 Ways to Eat Well on the Cheap — Growing your own food can help you eat well on the cheap. [US News & World Report]
How to save money on airline fees — To save money on airline fees, decide what your priorities are when you fly. [Five Cent Nickel]
Limes Are Crazy Expensive Right Now: 16 Ways to Replace Them
If you haven't heard about it on the news, you've experienced it in the grocery store: The Great Lime Crisis of 2014. Limes are either crazily marked-up or the bin is completely empty. A confluence of factors is the blame: a widely spread tree disease, erratic weather patterns, and extortion in lime growing parts of the world are among the reasons.
If you're used to relying on the trusty lime to brighten up your spring and summer drinks, sauces, salads, and meat entrees, this might be a good time to diversify your acid game in the kitchen. Here are 16 fun ways to replace limes in your repertoire.
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