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Need to make some fast cash but don’t know what to do? Try some of these legitimate options

Make Money Fast! Drive Women Wild!: And Other Offers Too Good to Refuse from The Small Ads
Make Money Fast! Drive Women Wild!:
And Other Offers Too Good to Refuse from The Small Ads

One thing that successful people have going for them is that they’re always hustling, always striving to make that next dollar.

Or, when looked at from a more practical viewpoint: as Dave Ramsay often says, “you don’t have an debt problem, you have an income problem”. In other words, you can make ends meet – but you need to get off your fat butt and take on a second or third weekly paycheck in addition to your primary job.

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New Game: Name the Marijuana Strain

Marijuana Grower's Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation
“Marijuana Grower’s Handbook:
Your Complete Guide for Medical and
Personal Marijuana Cultivation” written by Tommy Chong

Here’s a whole bunch of fun games for you to play – all you need to have is the NAME OF THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA STRAIN, and you can have tons of fun with these variations:

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10 Rules for Walking on the Sidewalk (stop, move, or get out of our way!)

Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends

Web Watch has worked in New York City.  We’ve fought the crowds there, and frankly — rush hour there is absolutely everything you think it would be.

It’s crowded, it’s smelly – and the successful NYC commuters all have this “look”.  The “don’t talk to me, don’t look at me, I’m not looking at you, get out of my way” look.  Nobody is stopping to smell the roses or window shop or take a look around them at what some call the Most Amazing City In The World.

Nope, they’re too busy making sure that they don’t run into those tourists who wander New York City with their mouths agape, staring up at the tall buildings while they fumble their Kodak Instamatic disposable camera from their safe-and-secure fanny pack.

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The Best Places to Live in America in 2011

Nextville: Amazing Places to Live Your Life
Nextville: Amazing Places to Live Your Life

Web Watch has lived in a number of places around the country, and visited dozens of other cities as well.

When we travel, we often ask ourselves the same question — when it comes time to retire, would this make a good place to live?

Or, more specifically – if our jobs allowed us to relocate anywhere in the country to work, where would be a good place to move to?

Well, MONEY magazine has compiled the TOP 100 BEST SMALL TOWNS TO LIVE IN AMERICAThese are all towns of less than 50,000 population.  Here were the top ten:

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10 Things Not To Put on your Resume Cover Letter

Career Essentials: The Cover Letter
Career Essentials: The Cover Letter

A while back, Web Watch covered 10 WORDS NOT TO USE ON YOUR RESUME

We figured it was time to also provide job-seekers 10 THINGS NOT TO INCLUDE ON YOUR COVER LETTER, especially after one recent interview session that Web Watch had to sit through recently.

Granted, the issue we had was with the resume itself rather than with the cover letter, but hey – it’s all in the name of a good story, isn’t it?

The candidate presented a resume that showed appropriate skills the job required – no issue there. But they decided to include a list of previous job experience that had absolutely no bearing on the job they were interviewing for.

Seriously, why would they include that they trained runway models how to model fashions if the job they were applying for had absolutely no relationship to the fashion industry?  C’mon people – after you reach a certain age and success level in your career path, it’s time to exclude your GPA and college experiences from your resume.  Nobody cares that the potential Vice President of Sales and Marketing spent their summer as a part-time employee at The Gap 25 years ago. Show us what you did last month, or the last five years. 

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Is your girlfriend a spy? Here are five things to check

Spy Girls
Spy Girls: License to Thrill

How would you know if your wife or girlfriend were a spy?

Well, if they were any good as a spy – you probably would never know at all.

But there are, apparently, at least FIVE SIGNS YOUR GIRLDFRIEND IS A SPY that can help you make sure that your girl is on the up-and-up.

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Shopping tip: Beauty products and cosmetics have expiration dates

Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter without Me
Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter without Me

Web Watch has talked about how much trouble that cosmetics can get you into, but that’s not going to stop women and men from buying beauty products on a regular basis.

But some people end up buying more than they need (hello, Costco and Sam’s Club shoppers! We’re looking at you!  And those Extreme Couponers with their hoard).

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Women prefer to make purchases based on charitable giving

Yoplait Yogurt
Buy some YOPLAIT YOGURT

A recent survey from M/A/R/C Research and The Integer Group discovered that women are very particular about the brands that they buy at the grocery store.

And it has absolutely nothing to do with whether those products are superior in Web Watch’s opinion (the infamous “Heinz vs Hunts ketchup debate” lingers on, folks) or not.

What the survey uncovered was that 43% of women prefer to purchase brands that are associated with charitable giving.