Category Archives: Money Watch

Man Jobs, You Say?

Those who have been participating in the Weekly Questions are women. So I decided to post a question that will have them answer if they can do man jobs.

Man jobs are those that require individuals, be they women or men, to do man jobs, as professionals or as odd jobs or as emergency jobs.

So the Weekly Question will attempt to answer :

What man jobs can you do?

My answer:

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How to Advertise Your Business

One of the most important things for a business to take off is to be able to market and advertise well.

There are many ways to do this.

One is to create a media presentation like a television and/or radio commercial to be able to reach out to a lot of people instantaneously.

Another way to advertise one’s business is to join trade and fair shows. Of course this will mean extra expenses especially for the company that is just starting but when customers and inquiries start coming in, all the efforts are not wasted.

How should one setup a booth in trade and fair exhibits?

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When We are Old

I have meant to write a post with photos about the poem “When You are Old” by William Butler Yeats. This has been sitting in my notepad for months already.

I can not precisely remember the reasons why I haven’t made it in a post but foremost I remember is that I do not have photos of people who were well beyond their golden age. This stage I can think of several photo images but the one I thought would be very apt would be that of the setting sun.


Finally I had photos (several taken with permission to publish) but I decided to put these in a commentary/post I have written about people beyond the golden years who still work hard for their families. Not because they love doing it but because they have no choice.

Why so?

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Hard Times

Times are hard. With the problems even the biggest financial institutions are having,it is not a surprise that people have their own financial difficulties too.

There are so many things one can do to avoid having financial problems. One is to be able to manage whatever resources one has and not spend beyond that.

There are of course instances when a person is in need of a major financial help so a personal loan is not avoided. It is not bad to get a personal loan as long as one is able to responsibly answer the obligations that need to be answered.

Getting financial help is not an easy task so it is very important to be able to know the different services one can avail of. It is important to read a lot of information like a personal finance map which can outline services according to one’s needs.

In the mean time, it is best to do an overall assessment of one’s financial resources to be able to maximize these resources.

Faber Castell Pencil Sharpener

We are loyal Faber Castell products users. No, they are not paying me to say so.

There are different kinds of pencils to choose from.

When the children were starting to write, they used grip pencils to help them hold the pencils properly.

Now that they are older and are able to write better, we use the #2 pencil, usually the green color because I can’t stand the color orange.

The children also use the Faber Castell erasers.

And the Faber Castell colored pencils.

Ok, you got my drift.

One of the company’s products that we love are the sharpeners. We have had several sharpeners from them but these are either lost or misplaced. The older ones are still being used but when they have a new design, we just have to get one or maybe two.

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See? No mess when the pencils are sharpened.

Check out one page of the Faber Castell site here and our homeschooling site here and see the colored pencils on both sites 🙂