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Entries from November 2008

Green Decor

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Weekly Green Tip

In the market for new furniture for your home office — or any other part of the house?
Consider green furniture! Prices are coming down every day as more and more consumers demand furniture made from sustainable safe materials.
What is so bad about traditional furniture?
Even the name brand stores typically sell book shelves made from medium-density [...]

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Home Business Pitfalls

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Work from Home

Most home business opportunities are scams. Let us help you sort through the muck.
The proliferation of home-based business opportunities on the web is due to several factors. The idea of working from home, of being one’s own boss, has always held a tremendous appeal to many folks frustrated by traditional work. Given today’s grim [...]

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Weekly Green Tip

November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Weekly Green Tip

Greening Your Home Work Place
One advantage of working from home is the ability to make your own decisions about greening your work place. If you are fortunate enough to work from home, be skeptical of carpets.
Carpets may look nice but they trap lots of nasty things like dust, mold and phthalate particles. Furthermore, [...]

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I’m Thinking of the Smart Car

November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Going Green

My neighbor has one and now I can’t stop looking out my home office window and thinking how cute it is!
In addition to good looks, the Smart Car boast a low price tag — the basic model starts at around $12,000 — and a tiny appetite for fuel. It’s a veritable gas sipper! When I [...]

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Reflections From the Home Office

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Work from Home

What did it mean to work from home 100 years ago?
In a nutshell, it was probably hell on earth to work from home at that time in American History.
The other day I was thinking about how crazy it would have been years ago to aspire to work from home. For a woman, that would have [...]

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