Forum saved! Go ahead - use it :)
First, thanks to everyone who took a moment to share your kind words of support in the previous post. I could definitely feel your solidarity against the big bad spam enemy. And second, the forum will...
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Value Village NOT owned by Walmart.
Last weekend I wrote about a casual mention broadcast by CBC that Value Village was owned by Walmart. It was news that took me by surprise me so I did my own research. I didn’t turn up any link between...
View ArticleLosing my job was a gift to my kids
When I was laid off, my children knew right away. I’m not good at hiding things and I sometimes wear my heart on my sleeve too much for my own good. Plus, my kids are big. Like young-adult big. So when...
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Merchandising the recession. Part 2.
A few weeks back I posted about the quintessential recession marketing tool — the T-shirt. You could argue that it’s the most egalitarian form of public self-expression. (Or perhaps it was until blogs...
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I may have worked for you but that doesn’t make us friends.
I was recently contacted by a reader with a great writing style eager to share her own musings on job loss. Her post below hits on a topic I think a lot of us will identify with — why you may not want...
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Mi casa, su casa. Want to rent a room (so I can keep my house)?
If any of you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you may have noticed that this past week or so I’ve been rather quiet. That’s because my free time lately hasn’t been so free. In the...
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What have you had to give up?
Yesterday, I met my first prospective tenant. I’m making a big change in living arrangements in order to avoid making other changes – like selling my house. So I’m giving up my privacy. My sense of...
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The Fired For Now Totally Unscientific Tally of Sacrifice
Yesterday I invited readers to share the sacrifices they’ve made following job loss. What they’ve had to give up in the face of some harsh economic truths. Certainly, 2009 was the year many of us took...
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The Do-It-Yourself Recovery. Is self-employment propping up the economy?
It’s being dubbed the “Do-It-Yourself Recovery”. Across Canada, every media outlet is headlining the latest unemployment figures released yesterday showing a trend that I would suspect is happening...
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