Last week we asked: How has the recession affected your spending and saving habits? Although we’re all peeking through our fingers as we check on our 401Ks and various accounts, the good news is that it hasn’t affected us that much.
- 46% of voters said they weren’t doing anything differently
- 28% of voters are looking at these plunging prices as a great time to stock up (ha! ha) on stocks and other investments
- 13% noted that they’d moved money around so no more than $100K was in one spot at once
- 9% said they were carpe diem-ing it up and living for today
- 3% said they were taking money out of their bank and hiding it in pickle jars in their backyard.
Commenters noted that they were trying to take less cabs and eating out less… (same here!) One commenter also noted that she was going to buy a house sooner than anticipated. (You go, girl!)
As always, the poll is still open — if you haven’t voted yet, please go do so! And, just for kicks, if you have a recession-favorite recipe, post it in the comments below…
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- Women aren’t necessarily leaving the work force for different reasons than men. [The Women's DISH] But they are fleeing legal careers faster than men! [Vancouver Sun via Ms. JD]
- Ooh, a profile on Carly Fiorina… and her support of McCain. [WSJ]
- What you eat affects your mood (we knew that) as well as your cognitive abilities (didn’t know that). Salmon and beets, anyone? [iVillage]
- If you’re thinking of getting a dog, you may want to consider a mutt rather than a designer dog like a puggle, which can have massive (and expensive) health problems. [ChiTrib]
- Investing idea: buy a foreclosed home. [WSJ]
- Amusing: an article from Law.com on the evolution of lunch from summer camp through to partnership. [Law.com]
- Randomly: A cool website we just found: a Yale-educated former lawyer is blogging (and writing a book) about a year spent making all efforts to be happy. [The Happiness Project]
- Interesting review of an Title VII case out of Pennsylvania wherein a receptionist was fired nine minutes after sending an e-mail telling her two male bosses she would not get them coffee every day at 3 p.m. The judges said that because there had never been a male receptionist, she couldn’t possibly prove she was being treated unequally. [Feminist Law Profs]
- There’s a great series over at The Glass Hammer profiling 35 Women Under 35.
- Ah! Advice on how to avoid making a poor investment in a franchise. [WSJ Independent Street]
- How to Kill Time at the Office (because you need suggestions, right?)
- This one’s for the New Yorkers: a review of a well-planned kitchen space that is also teensy. Handy article to read for renovations! [Apartment Therapy]
- In totally unrelated news, happy birthday to Go Fug Yourself! Four years, wow! To celebrate, they give their readers a gift we can only hope to one day match — a link to “one of the most awkward, poorly costumed and excruciatingly choreographed moments in television history.” Enjoy!
It is our sincere hope that most readers will be cutting out of the office by 3 PM today. Dare to dream, ladies! Accordingly, we’re taking Friday off. See you Monday.
- Fashionista declares it so it must be so: Black nailpolish is dead. (If it were ever appropriate in an office anyway, which is debatable.) [Fashionista]
- Oh, good, we like to laugh: “Report: Women Increasingly Choosing Dead-End Careers Over Dead-End Relationships.” [The Onion]
- 5 mini-laptops worth lugging around. [Smart Money]
- In case you’re in need of some mini-speakers for your office computer: MUG recommends this pair by Klipsch.
- Wot? A useful Facebook application that lets you add your friend’s birthdays to your Google calendar? No way. [Lifehacker]
- NYT has an interesting take on the age-old conundrum: rent versus buy. We like the advice: If you can rent something for $2100 per month ($25,200 per year) or buy it for $400,000, the “ratio” is about 1:16 — you should never buy if the ratio is over 1:20. [NYT]
