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 [...]

Ann Coulter: One Giant Step Backwards for Single Moms

As if single mothers don’t have enough to contend with, now we have Ann Coulter announcing that if you are a victim of a crime, you can thank a single mother. In a recent interview on the Today show to promote her new book Guilty, Anne discusses her theory on how single handily, single moms [...]

Top 25 Cost Savers for Single Moms

If you’re a single mom, no doubt you’re feeling this economic crunch, even more so than your married gal pals. But there are some simple things you can do to help keep more of your paycheck in your wallet. It may take some discipline, but you just might find some of these helpful tips are easy [...]

Single Mom Alert: What to Do When You Can’t Stand Your Child’s BFF

 
It starts with a name. So-and-so is this. And so-and-so does that. Your child wants to hang around so-and-so all the time. They play at school. They may walk home together. They talk the evening away by phone or instant-messaging. 
So-and-so is the topic of conversation at dinner and the measure of all things good. 
Pretty soon [...]

The Cougar Phenomenon

Ladies, ever thought about dating a younger man or are you already dipping your toes in a “younger “dating pool?  Then join us tomorrow night on SingleMindedWomen.com blog talk radio when SMW host Rachelle Chase will interview Valerie Gibson; author, radio, and television personality on her new book, COUGAR: A GUIDE FOR OLDER WOMEN DATING [...]

Trenchcoat Mama: This Makeover Gets to the Heart of the Matter

Never thought I’d ever accompany someone to a makeover, but four days ago I did just that. My brother had  an angioplasty and walked away with—if a picture’s worth a thousand words—a brand new heart.
Now I’ll tell anyone who will listen about this amazing procedure—how you can actually lie there (unanaesthetized and feeling nothing) while [...]

Matt Logelin Joins SingleMindedWomen.com’s Single Parent Radio Panel

Tune in Monday, October 13, 2008, 9pm ET/6pm PT  as single parent bloggers Matt Logelin, Jessica Pegis, Alaina Sheer, and Jessica Ashley join SingleMindedWomen.com’s Blog Talk Radio host, Rachelle Chase, and SMW Single Mom Channel Editor, Melissa Chapman, to schmooze, commiserate and trade war stories about the joys—and challenges—of single parenting.
Have a question for Rachelle [...]

Single Parent Bloggers on SMW Blog Talk Radio

Halloween Tips, Single Parent Bloggers, and more this week on SingleMindedMoms.com 
If you’re a single mom embarking on some Halloween shopping, be sure to read this month’s Single Mom’s Channel  feature article; Single Minded Moms’ Must-Have Halloween Products Kids Will go Gaga for!
And don’t forget to tune into our first ever Single Parent Blogger Roundtable October 13, 2008, [...]

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 [...]

Is Becoming a Single Mom the Latest Trend to Hit Hollywood?

In these crazy economic times, middle class single moms who have painstakingly paid their mortgages, car insurance and taxes on time– each month- are now being faced with cleaning up the messes of larger than life- selfish- Wall Street tycoons who shamelessly  squandered more money on a dinner at Cipriani’s than a single mom spends on an [...]

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