New Bride's Guide to Changing Her Name If you've decided that changing your name is the right move for you, commit to the process by following my New Bride's Guide to Changing Her Name. Simply print out the checklist to learn what steps you may need to take. You'll find that some areas require more attention and paperwork than others, but keep in mind you only need to (hopefully) do this once!
The recessive economy has made unemployment a new experience for many workers in 2008, and pounding the pavement in search of a new job means interviews are inevitable. Job interviews are the ultimate at putting job hunters on-the-spot, so props to you interviewees for holding your own in front of hiring managers and potential bosses. Whether you rocked them or not, how many job interviews did you go on during 2008?
Wesabe Member's Spouse Is a Spending Addict A Wesabe member reaches out to the community and asks for help in dealing with his spendaholic wife, who ran up $30,000 in debt without her spouse knowing. How would you handle it?
Entertaining makes me feel all warm and holiday-spirited inside, and there's something priceless about seeing so many people you care about enjoying each other's company. However, hosting holiday parties can become pricey if we don't plan properly and have trouble editing our party vision to make it more economical.
Because so many of us have the tendency to go all-out in the name of the season, The Wall Street Journal asked Sarah Carey, the food editor at Martha Stewart Living, for her advice on throwing a bash on a budget. Here are her helpful tips.
Replace the formal sit-down dinner with buffets of simple but tasty appetizers and dishes.
Go potluck — make one main dish and ask guests to contribute sides and desserts.
Scan your cabinets, freezer and refrigerator and consider creating a menu around what you already have on-hand.
Give yourself more than a few days to shop so you can scout coupons ahead of time.
Scope out the dollar-store for everything from cheap spices and cake mixes, to wine glasses and paper products.
To see five more money-saving party tips, read more
December is upon us and you know what that means — time for the Sugar Network's Best of 2008! It's time to look back at the biggest news, the most important photos, the breakout stars and all your favorite products you couldn't live without in 2008.
Each site on the Sugar Network will be polling you the readers about what you loved — celebrities, news, trends, movies, products, designers, stores, and more — before announcing your choices and the editors' favorites for the year to win the Sugar Awards in their categories. This year we also want to give a big thank you to our sponsor for all our Best of coverage, the AT&T Palm Centro!
Along the way we'll be giving you slideshows and quizzes highlighting the biggest headlines and most exciting stories in all our categories. Should be a fun ride, so stick around!
Bankers just can't seem to cut a break this year — besides enduring an extremely tumultuous work environment, people are judging those in the banking profession as being less honest than previously thought. The group lost 12 percentage points from last year's annual Gallup poll that asks for respondents to rate the honesty and ethical standards of various fields, dropping bankers from their spot among the most well-rated professions in 2007 to a neutral rating.
Poll respondents evaluated the professions as having very high, high, average, low, or very low standards, and here are the results from the 2008 survey. Is your profession reflected in the ratings?
Top-Rated Professions For Honesty and Ethics
Accountants
Funeral directors
Clergy
Policemen
Medical doctors
High school teachers
Druggists or pharmacists
Nurses
For the list of the least-rated professions, read more
We've been throwing around the word recession in connection with the US economy for some time now — everything from recession-proof jobs to recession-proof beauty is common vocabulary. However, in a statement released just today, the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed that the economy has been in a recession since December 2007.
The last time the economy was in a recession was 2001, after the tech bubble burst. Members of the Business Cycle Dating Committee explained the requirements for a recession in a statement.
A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in production, employment, real income, and other indicators. A recession begins when the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends when the economy reaches its trough.
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