121. Dealing With Money and Divorce
You've finally decided to move on with your life, but how do you afford it? Making the decision to get divorced and move on from an old relationship can be difficult enough without having to deal with the financial strain it can put on you. Dating and relationship advice expert April Masini offers tips for saving money on legal fees during the divorce process.
122. Career Advice - Tattoos At Work
Attitudes toward tattoos in the workplace have changed drastically. Some industries are more lenient about tattoos while many are still against body art. Can tattoos hurt your chances of promotion or damage your professional image? Advice columnist April Masini takes a hard look at the growing art form.
123. Business Tips - Keeping Great Employees
A successful boss is only as good as his or her best employees. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini offers trade secrets on what a boss can do to keep the best workers happy and loyal.
124. Financial Advice - Tips for Buying A Home Together
Like graduation, marriage or having a child, buying a home is one of those huge turning points that change your life. Usually married couples are thought of as the typical home-buyers, but more singles than ever are purchasing their first homes. Advice expert and best-selling author April Masini gives the low down on when it's right and when it's wrong for singles to buy a home.
125. Tips for Getting Adhead At Work With Annoying Co-workers
What could be worse than having to work closely with an annoying person every day? They drive you crazy, but you can't lose control because your job depends on the two of you cooperating. Advice expert and best-selling author April Masini explains how you can lessen the pain of having to work with an annoying co-worker.
126. Tips For Dealing With Difficult Customers
You know that saying, "the customer is always right"? Well, if you need to work with difficult customers, you probably don't agree with it. But you're a professional, and you need to keep your cool. Advice expert and columnist April Masini offers tips on how to handle difficult customers, so you don't get fired.
127. Relationship Advice - Conflicting Spending Habits
Can a spender and a saver live happily ever after? Together? Relationship advice columnist April Masini offers advice for determining when it's OK to splurge and when it's not. She also explains ways couples can handle money within their marriage, especially when one wants to save and one loves to shop!
128. How to Hire A Babysitter - or Choose A Guardian
You wouldn't leave your kids with just anyone. So your search for a babysitter is going to take some time and effort. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini offers advice on how you can begin your search to find someone you can trust leaving your kids with. And she tackles some more serious issues as well.
129. Email Etiquette
To e-mail or not to e-mail? Is that the question you've been asking yourself lately? Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini explains that there are plenty of times when e-mailing is appropriate, but at other times, a phone call or one-on-one visit is best. Read on to hear her advice, so you can make sure you have proper e-mail etiquette.
130. Tips for Firing Employees -- and Friends
Donald Trump makes it seem like a breeze, but firing an employee is one of the most difficult things you could have to do as a boss. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini gives some advice for how you can get through it and help ease the transition for everyone involved.
131. Tips Towards Stopping Workplace Violence
Ever wonder why people with seemingly great careers, lots of money, and happy lives commit serious, violent crimes? Expert advice columnist April Masini explains why successful people can go berserk and how you can effectively manage your workplace to keep everyone safe.
132. Email Etiquette - Text Message Etiquette
This is the age of letting your fingers do the talking for you. YES -- you guessed right -- Text Messaging! It's all the rage and wherever you are, you are likely to see both children, teens and adults texting away like crazy, be it in the train, store or while crossing the street! It's become a phenomenon! So how do you know when not to cross the line and what are the rules of texting? Let advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini tell you how to text message the right way!
133. Tips to Make Working With Teens Easier
Think teenagers are too irresponsible for jobs? While teenagers don't have the experience and discipline that most adults have, they can still be productive workers. Expert advice columnist April Masini gives tips for how you can make working with teens go as smoothly as possible.
134. Office Party Etiquette - The Do's and Don'ts to Partying With Co-Workers
Holiday office parties can be tricky times. They're the unique opportunity to be casual and social with your co-workers, but they also present a big opportunity for screwing up by drinking too much, saying something inappropriate, etc. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini helps one reader lay out a game plan for her holiday office party this year.
135. Decorating Tips - When You Have No Money
When you move into your first place, you may have all the enthusiasm you need to decorate beautifully, but you probably don't have the money. Advice expert columnist April Masini offers a few quick and easy decorating tips that will beautify your home for little or no money!
136. Why Singles Are Buying vs Renting Homes
Have you noticed a recent trend towards the purchase of dream homes, condos and vacation homes sprawled across vast greens in Vermont, Lake Tahoe or the vast expanses of the plains? Are you even more surprised to find out that it is singles who are purchasing these homes? One single reader asks advice columnist April Masini why buying homes are so popular among singles nowadays and if it is in her best interests to consider buying her own home. Read on and find out what April has to say!
137. Finacial Advice for the Average Family - Cheap Travel Tips
It's good for families to get away from home and take vacations with each other, but sometimes it's difficult to afford a vacation. Advice columnist and expert April Masini offers tips on how families can save money while on vacation. A must-read for anyone who wants to get away without going into debt!
138. Tips for Relationships With Money Descrepancies
Sometimes the worst part about being broke is having rich friends. Relationship advice columnist April Masini shares her advice on what to do if you and your friends have completely different financial statuses and can't seem to agree on how to spend your time together. Don't be embarrassed about your financial situation, there are so many ways you can compromise!
139. Business Etiquette - How to Fire A Friend
Firing an employee is always difficult, but what happens when the friend you've hired turns out to be a disaster? Do you fire them, or keep them on? If you're firing them, how do you do it kindly? Relationship advice columnist April Masini tackles the delicate issue of letting an employee go, especially when the employee holds other significance in your life.
140. Gift Giving Ideas - Tips On Regifting - Recycled Gift Tips
Regifting: whether you love it or think it's tacky, it's happening everywhere. If you have a stockpile of gifts that, while lovely, aren't for you, they might need regiving. Relationship advice expert and best-selling author April Masini offers tips on how you can regift with class.