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Does getting your hair cut mean that you’re anticipating a slowing economy? Businessweek has a short write up in regards to Nikkei’s findings that the length of women’s hair depends on how they see Japan’s financial stability.
Comparing the hair data to Japan’s economic well-being, Nikkei writer Kosuke Iwano found that in […]

This may be old news to some, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to spread the word. I found out through the Get Rich Slowly website that you can find any unclaimed checks or monetary property through missingmoney.com (or if you live in the state of Connecticut, this site). I can’t imagine this […]

Many of us have learned that to save money, you need to look for deals and that the more you get, the more you save. This isn’t always necessarily so. Growing up, I thought that getting more for less was the best way to spend money, but I have adjusted my spending habits […]

So is anyone else surprised that it is such a big deal for men to date women who make more money than them? I am completely taken back by this article in the New York Times, because well, I never thought it was a huge issue. For a while I was making more […]

As a poor college student, here are some basic tips that I’ve been following money-wise that I thought other people might be interested in:
Use Direct Deposit. Chances are the place you work at offers Direct Deposit, which is a program where your paycheck automatically goes into your checking or savings account. You can […]

Talking with a good friend that works at the customer service at a large chain electronics store, I asked him what the top 10 most returned items are. Most of his answers are quite surprising–usually the customer has been misled by employees or don’t do their research in buying high-priced items. Take a […]

In the last few years, I have been screwed over twice by different places, while my boyfriend has been screwed over once:
Example A: Bank of America charged me a maintenance fee for my checking account when they weren’t supposed to. Since I have a college checking account, they aren’t supposed to charge maintenance for […]

If you’re a college student, then credit card companies are practically jumping at you to sign up for their cards. With so many numbers, conditions, regulations, and so on…How do you know what to look for when you actually want one?
I was inspired to write an article about this when a good friend told […]