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How to Keep Food Safe in a Storm

By The Home Economist| 2013-06-04T17:57:23+00:00 June 4th, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU|Tags: blackouts and food, canned food and storms, cheeses and storms, dangerous foods, flood water and food, food contamination and storms, Food safety for storms, how do you know when a food is rotten, refridgerator temperature and stores, soft cheese contamination, throwing away hard cheeses, what happens too food when your power goes out in a storm|

If you lose power in a storm it's safe to say you'll also lack internet access, so let's go over this now: how to eat safely in storm season.

How to Get a Gym Membership You’ll Really Use

By The Home Economist| 2013-05-28T13:11:25+00:00 May 28th, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Health & Money|Tags: getting the most from your gym membership, gym membership, gym rip offs. quiting your gym, how can i find a gym that works with my schedule, how do i find a good gym for me, how do you not waste money on a gym, questions to ask when joining a gym|

Summer workout season is here - here's how to make sure you won't waste a gym membership. Summer bathing suit-season comes with one certainty: most of us will join gyms we'll never use. Let's save ourselves some money and try to find a facility that works with our lives. Here's how: 1) Do you have to pay extra for [...]

8 Signs Your Husband’s Hiding Money

By The Home Economist| 2013-06-02T13:00:02+00:00 May 22nd, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Money & Marriage|Tags: ACH, cheating spouses, financial infidelity, how can I hide money from my husband, How do I know if my husband is hiding money, how do you know if your husband is cheating, money cheating, signs your husband is hiding money|

You know to look for lipstick on his collar but do you know the signs signal he's hiding money. Here are eight. You know that lipstick on his collar spells trouble but are you familiar with the bank statement signs suggesting your husband is sneaking off with your money? Well, you're probably being paranoid - [...]

Mortgage Loans: Six Signs Your Low Rate is a Scam

By The Home Economist| 2013-05-24T12:08:56+00:00 May 21st, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, House & Money|Tags: Federal Trade Commission, How do I evaluate a home loan, How do I know if a mortgage rate is too good to be true, interest rate vs. payment rate, Low Fixed Rate, Low Mortgage Payments, Mortgage Scams, Very Low Mortgage Rates, what is the differernce between an interest rate and a payment rate|

Low rates are often too good to be true. A red hot housing market always brings tempting - but troublesome - mortgage offers. If we learned anything from the last crisis, well, rest assured, scammers learned even more. And they're using the knowledge to try and trick us again. Here are some government-released guidelines about how to read the advertisements. [...]

Parents are Distracted when Driving

By The Home Economist| 2013-05-06T20:22:11+00:00 May 6th, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Health & Money|Tags: applying make up when driving, distracted when driving, driving while distractedd, how many accidents are caused by texting and driving, parents driving mothers driving, playing CDs when driving, Texting and driving|

Parents are distracted when driving. When it comes to distracted drivers, we're quick to point fingers at the teens and drunks. But it's actually parents who are searching the internet and applying lipstick while their kids are in the backseat, according to researchers from University of Michigan. They surveyed more than 600 parents to find whether they - while driving their [...]

Work-Life Balance: Seven Tricks to Having it All

By Cindy Krischer Goodman| 2013-04-25T20:43:23+00:00 April 25th, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Mom-o-nomics, Random, Working Moms & Money|Tags: balancegal, Balancing Act, Cindy Krischer Goodman, how can I exercise more, How can I make more time for my family, Work-life balance, Working Moms, working mothers|

Here are 7 tricks to balancing work and home. As mothers, we worry about work-life balance, hoping we’ve spent enough time with our kids. Yet along the way we meet so many moms who navigate changes with endless grace.What do they know that we don’t? Cali Williams Yost — an expert on workplace flexibility [...]

Read this and Lower Your Cell Phone Bill Immediately

By The Home Economist| 2013-04-23T20:12:18+00:00 April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Mom-o-nomics, Random, Recalls and Scams|Tags: 900 numbers, bogus charges on your cell phone bill, cell phone bill, cramming, Federal Trade Commission, how scammers put fake charges on your cell phone bill, red flags you're being scammed, wierd area codes|

Scammers are always cramming charges on to our cell phone bills. If your cell phone bill seems higher than expected you might be tempted to scream at the nearest teen for texting too much but hold-it-right-there: the culprit could be even sneakier. Fake companies are frequently cramming unauthorized charges on to our cell phone bills, [...]

Indiana Pharmacy Recalls Perscriptions

By The Home Economist| 2013-04-23T18:19:14+00:00 April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Mom-o-nomics, Recalls and Scams|Tags: Chicago, drug recall, Florida, Illionis, Indiana, injectable drug recall, Nora Apothecary & Alternative Therapies, not sterile, perscription recall, unsterile, vial|

An Indiana pharmacy is recalling all perscriptions. During a recent inspection at an independent pharmacy in Indiana, government officials determined that vials used to store injectable drugs were not sterile, according to the United States Food and Drug Administration. The pharmacy - Nora Apothecary & Alternative Therapies - is recalling all drugs it compounded, saying that patients are [...]

Be Cautious When Donating to Boston Victims

By The Home Economist| 2013-04-19T18:40:01+00:00 April 19th, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Mom-o-nomics, Recalls and Scams|Tags: Boston scams, charity scams, check charities, how do I know a charity is real, how do you know if Boston charities are real, make sure your money goes to a good cause, what's the best way to give money to Boston victims|

The bombings in Boston are opening everyone's hears and wallets. And that's exactly why fake charities are springing up overnight. The government's Federal Trade Commission has compiled a checklist to insure our good money goes to great causes. Background check charities at: CharityWatch or The Better Business Bureau's WISE GIVING Alliance. Ask for detailed information about the charity, including name, address, [...]

Forecast: Lower Gas Prices for Summer Driving Season

By The Home Economist| 2013-04-15T18:01:35+00:00 April 15th, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Families & The Economy, Random|Tags: forecast for gas prices, gas prices, save money on gas, summer driving season|

Gas prices expected to fall for summer - but not much. Gas prices during summer are expected to fall slightly, the U.S. Energy Information Agency reports. By July, prices should average $3.63 a gallon, just a drop - pun intended - lower than the past two years. Still, though, they won't reach those lovely low prices of [...]

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