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Karen Wilmot has been working at Best Buy Company since 1993 serving as the administrative support for key executives. Wilmot has developed her writing skills through daily administrative functions and the many blogs she maintains. Her passion for developing

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Personal Finance > Smart Spending Tips for living a frugal lifestyle: 4 of 45

There are times when I get upset when people say they want to save money and then don’t look at the little things that eat away at your hard earned dollar. I remember when my grandmother would pick up pennies from the sidewalk and say pennies turn into dollars. I often wonder what happened to that thinking. The tips I&...
Personal Finance > Smart Spending Living simply and more frugally: 2 of 9

Simple living takes the stress out of life. I know this is counter intuitive to our society standards but the truth of the matter is that when you live a simple life there is much less to worry about there by making life less stressful. For instance, how many times have you surfed the 400 channels of cable only to be fr...
Personal Finance > Budgets & Saving Frugal habits worth adopting: 3 of 12

Here are some frugal tips that are definitely worth adopting. They won't make you a million but they will put a few dollars back in your pocket. 1. Use power strips Have you ever heard of ghost electricity. When you turn on your television it comes on immediately. For this previlidge you pay for the electricity. It mea...
Personal Finance > Smart Spending How to be a frugal grocery shopper: 2 of 7

Here are four tips for frugal shopping that are easy to implement immediately: 1. Plan your meals When you plan your meals you take the guess work out of grocery shopping. You have an idea of what you want to cook therefore you purchase what is needed for those meals. This helps to curb your enthusiasm for impulse purchases ...
Business > Entrepreneurship Arts and crafts fairs and festivals: 2009 trends and their implications: 3 of 10

Globally we are have an increased level of anxiety about our finances, as we have never seen before. Society is doing an about face on the old and changing to adopt new lifestyles and with this new trends. With all these changes crafters and craft show promoters have a unique ability to market their shows for the consumers w...
Food & Drink > Diet, Health & Organic Foods How to cook for a gluten-free dinner guest: 1 of 3

The easiest way to cook gluten free is to use all real foods without heavy sauces. If you use real foods (i.e. not from a box) and avoid gravy sauces it's relatively easy to accommodate for your gluten free friend. Also, read the product labels. If you get anything that is pre-made, you must read a label ...
Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness Secrets of getting organized: 9 of 25

Some of us are born organizers(BO) while others are born completely disorganized. I believe God put the BO's on this earth so that he could have some fun watching us try to organize the rest of the world. I am a born organizer. Everything has a place in my house and it's all organized in the way my mind thinks. This was grea...
Personal Finance > Budgets & Saving Where to start with saving money: 10 of 23

Are you tired of people saying the only way to save money is to start with building a budget? I tell you the only way to start saving money is to actually save it. We are a society of planning. We have strategies and plan everything we do. Guess what, we still don't save, we still overeat and we still are in debt up to our e...
Relationships & Family > Couple Communication Reflections: I like sports; he doesn't: 22 of 47

Feeling kind of Sunday, Sunday; I'm feeling kind of Sunday, when this commercial came on back in August of 2008, I knew my football season had begun. My teams are the Minnesota Vikings and the Carolina Panthers. If the two meet during a regular season game, party is at Karen's house. My husband couldn't care less. He doesn't...
Health & Fitness > Therapy & Counseling How a life coach can help you battle ADHD: 1 of 2

While I wouldn't use the term "battle" in life coaching. I would use the term succeed. You see a life coach is part of your success team. A life coach is someone that will advocate for you, hold you accountable and suggest new ways to thinking about old problems. Your life coach will help you tame your ADHD and create the li...