: About Me

While my main interests are in travel and nature, I enjoy writing about family life and voluntary simplicity.

My background includes marketing communication, business and technical writing, creative writing, radio show host, public relations as well as covering local political and educational forums for community newspapers.

I am in the process of co-writing a book with my husband on our experience of downsizing and layoffs as well as writing a book on voluntary simplicity.

I currently reside in Buffalo, New York with my husband and two kids. When I'm not working I enjoy gardening, scrapbooking and traveling.

Personal Finance > Personal Finance (Other) How to survive (even thrive) in difficult economic times

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Living on a tight budget is not easy to do when you feel there is no end in sight. Our first encounter of living on a tight budget came when my husband was laid off from a company he had been with for ten years. It was quite a shock to our system but it was during this time that we learned some valuable lessons of how to stretch our budget. Examine Your Lifestyle. Are you living within your means or putting everything on a credit card? If you are doing the latter, it's time to stop. Have more than one credit card take the one that has the lowest interest rate and cut the rest up. Call up y...

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