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Best Money Tips: Stay Motivated While Looking for Jobs

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some stellar articles on staying motivated while looking for jobs, personal finance tips from Captain America, and the 30-second habit with a lifelong impact.

Top 5 Articles

How to Stay Motivated While Looking for Jobs — Creating a schedule and fulfilling a purpose can keep you motivated while looking for a job. [Money Smart Life]

How to Find and Book the Best Vacation Rentals

Vacation rentals are a big part of the sharing economy — the idea that sharing things could financially benefit all involved. For example, travelers have been taking advantage of free accommodation by swapping their homes with each other through HomeExchange for decades. (See also: Home Exchanges: Free Accommodations With Perks)

9 Wall Street Expressions You Can Use Every Day

Colorful Wall Street expressions grace any good banker, trader, or analyst's regular day. While each group has its own specific idioms, as a former investment banker, I can attest to the many banker sayings out there. Barring some of the naughtier expressions, there are quite a few witty terms that anyone can use to express everyday life situations or make for some clever cocktail party conversation. (See also: One Simple Way to Improve Every Conversation)

Ask the Readers $200 Giveaway: What’s Your Top Tip to Stay in Touch with Colleagues Without Spending a Fortune?

We all know the importance of keeping in touch and communicating with your colleagues when it comes to professional success. However, sometimes keeping in contact with your colleagues can be expensive. Luckily, there are ways to offset the cost of maintaining communication with your professional contacts!

How do you stay in touch with colleagues without spending a fortune? Do you use any particular apps or tools? What money-saving strategies have you found to be useful useful when communicating with your colleagues?

Tell us how you stay in touch with colleagues without spending and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a $100 Skype Gift Card or one of two $50 Visa Gift Cards!

How to Improve Your Life by Becoming a Better Quitter

"Quitter."

If you're at all like me, that word brings up all sorts of negative childhood memories. I was a particularly tenacious kid, but I remember cringing when kids used that word to describe each other. I even remember a friend getting chewed out by her dad when she wanted to stop playing soccer mid season.

With all of these negative associations, it's no wonder Americans are working longer hours with less vacation than ever before. Add to this the pressure to make more money so we can consume more stuff, and our busy, busy behavior makes a lot of sense. (See also: You're Too Busy: Stop!)

Best Money Tips: Cleaning Tips That Can Save You Money

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on cleaning tips that will save you money, awesome ways to give, and finding small appliances for cheap.

Top 5 Articles

5 spring cleaning tips that can save you money — Donating your old items can save you money when you spring clean. [Living on the Cheap]

13 Awesome Ways to Give to Unsuspecting Random Poeple (Brave Enough for #11?) — Paying for another patron or organizing a meal shower are a couple great ways to give to unsuspecting people. [Christian PF]

How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work From Home

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Over 80% of employees say they’d love to work from home at least part of the time. Bosses on the other hand, well, not so much. But employers are starting to come around. Regular telecommuting has grown by nearly 80% since 2005. Why? It saves companies money. A typical employer saves over $11,000 per year per half time telecommuter. That’s news you can use if you want to convince your employer to let you work from home.

The 5 Hardest-to-Kill Houseplants

Some people have thumbs so green that they can plant a dead twig in a pot of soil and watch it grow into a lush plant that's the envy of every neighbor. I am not one of those people. While I have many skills on the domestic front, gardening indoors has never been one of them. With the arrival of warmer weather heralding spring, I've started to daydream of flowers and foliage. In my tiny New York City apartment, I want to bring some nature into my living space and recently started to research houseplants that are easy to grow and maintain indoors. All of the plants highlighted below are non-toxic to dogs and cats as well, an important point for all of us with pets.

Family Finances, Entrepreneurship, and More with Canadian Finance Blog's Tom Drake

I recently had the chance to interview with the fantastic Tom Drake from Canadian Finance Blog! Tom is a Financial Analyst, husband, dad, and the mastermind behind one of Canada's most popular personal finance websites.

Canadian Finance Blog is very well-known in the personal finance blogosphere and has been nominated for the Plutus Award for Best Canadian Personal Finance Blog three times and won once! Check out my interview with Tom for tips on living frugally as a family, entrepreneurship, and his favorite ways to use Skype!

The Secret Flight Search Site Savvy Travelers Use

With so many travel booking websites out there, it can be tough to decide which one to use. But did you know that many of these websites are powered by the same search engine?

ITA Matrix is the powerful software behind such household names as Kayak and Orbitz. It's a great place to start when you're looking for airfares. (See also: 10 Ways to Get Dirt Cheap Airline Tickets)