Tips on Surviving Holiday Travel on SingleMindedWomen.com

This month on SingleMindedWomen.com, readers will learn the top tips for successful holiday travel. Also in November, Setting a Budget for Holiday Gift-Giving, Navigating Office Politics and Adult “Sexting.”
Nov 09, 2009 – Paradise Valley, Ariz. – This month on SingleMindedWomen.com, the largest online news destination for singleistas, readers will learn the top tips for [...]

Single Mom Meets Budget: Where You Shop Matters

Does It Matter Where You Shop?
(yes, but not in the way you think)
Have you ever had a conversation like this? I swear, most single moms have. To this day, I can still remember the wretched argument over the price of cat food.
Nosy friend: Why do you shop for cat food at the grocery store? Why [...]

Holiday Gifts for Staff and Boss

Q. Help! I have to buy holiday gifts for the five people who work for me, plus my boss. My budget is extremely tight this year and I can’t afford much, but I don’t want to look cheap. Any ideas?
A. The expression “it’s the thought that counts” seems to have new meaning in the current [...]

Single Moms Meets Budget: Clean up Your Finances and Your Fridge

Not long after writing the first Single Mom Meets Budget column, I had a close encounter with my fridge and cupboards. Sure, we’d plunged into the budgeting journey by making lists in various categories like food and personal care. . .and I’d been to our three main stores to price and comparison shop – to [...]

Big Style, Small Budget: Insider Tips on Shopping Savings

There’s nothing like a date with the tax man to have your fashion fantasies come crashing down to earth. First there was your accountant’s cruel revelation that no, your fancy Prada tote isn’t a tax write-off even if you only bought it to impress your new boss. Now, some pencil-pusher at the IRS is holding [...]

Single Minded Moms: Single Mom Meets Budget, How I Dumped the Phone Company

Last month after I, a single mom, decided to embark on a budget I became a bundler. I finally dumped the phone company and welcomed cable into my life for television, internet, home phone, and cell.
 
It all started with a rent increase and the dawning realization that my child’s jean budget had only one place to go: up.
 
Fears [...]

Single Minded Moms: Single Mom Meets Budget

a title=”Single Moms” href=”http://www.singlemindedwomen.com/fullArticle.aspx?id=169″ target=”_blank”>Single Moms, do you know where your money goes every month? I don’t. But I’d like to. Instead, it seems like the last expenditure always pushes the needle to empty before we fill up with new dollars and start all over again.
Lately, though, it seems like our expenses invariably expand to [...]

Summertime Staycations for Single Moms and Their Kids

Your Kids, and Your Summer Budget

The end of the school year is fast approaching and I’m getting anxious! I can’t afford full time camp this summer, and although I love my kids (ages 7 and 10), being with them full time—I mean 24/7—will be stressful for me. Am I a bad mom for feeling this way? Do you have any [...]