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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.

Townsend Farms Organic Yogurt Causes Hepatitis A Outbreak

By The Home Economist| 2013-06-03T19:33:06+00:00 June 3rd, 2013|Categories: Health & Money, Recalls and Scams|Tags: Hepatitis A, hepatitis outbreak, liver disease, outbreak, Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend|

Townsend Antioxidant Blend linked to hepatitis A. Townsend Farms Organic Anti-Oxidant Blend - a frozen berry and pomegranate seed mix is linked to an outbreak of Hepatitis A, a contagious liver disease. More [...]

Unemployment Rate by State and City

By The Home Economist| 2013-05-29T15:34:31+00:00 May 29th, 2013|Categories: Families & The Economy|Tags: What is the unemployment rate in my city|

Do you know your area's unemployment rate? (Click here if you have no idea what we're talking about.) Unemployment rate Alabama................................. 6 Anniston-Oxford....................... 6.5 Auburn-Opelika........................ 4.9 Birmingham-Hoover..................... 5.2 Decatur............................... 5.8 Dothan................................ 5.8 Florence-Muscle Shoals................ [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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