Tour de Personal Finance, Stage 4, Round 1 – Posts 29-32

Also, if applicable, I will give a brief description of the stage of the Tour de France that took place the same day as (or that has happened since the previous Stage of) the competition.

• Key to Saving Money is Controlling Impulse Spending (Spending): Have you gone to the grocery store for milk and eggs and come home with steak and eggs?  Have you ever been tempted to buy something just because it was on sale?  Impulse spending can wreck your finances and is a major reason why most people have difficulty saving money.  Learning why you buy on impulse can be the key to saving more money.

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• How to Write a Resume that Gets Job Interviews – 34 Tips & Examples (Resume): There is more to a successful job search than slapping together a resume and mass submitting it to online job search engines. It starts by crafting a resume that is customized for each job, includes keywords from the job description, and makes a strong first impression. We cover these tips and more than 30 others as we show you examples and tips to help you create a resume that gets you on the shortlist for interviews.  

   

• This Chelsea Flat Was Furnished by eBay, Thrift Shops & Salvage Yards (Flat): On the face of it, Miss Thrifty’s friend, N, isn’t a poster girl for frugal living. She lives in the most expensive part of London, works in fashion, and plans to celebrate her next birthday in Versailles. But, just wait until you see N’s apartment, which she has kitted it out almost entirely with items from eBay, thrift shops and other bargain basements…

• The Grass Isn’t Always Greener (Greener): We’ve all wondered at some time or another if another job would be better than the one we currently have. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it it’s actually a lot worse. This the story of my ill-fated job change and realization that we don’t really know what we have until it’s gone