Print Your Business Cards Online
Some of us have a lot of spare time at hand even if they are running a business. Let’s say they need business cards; they have money to have someone in India design the cards for them, they have the time to talk to the designer, get the thing perfectly done; then they have the ample time to drive or walk down to the Kinko’s, design in hand, and get a thousand copies printed while they wait and smoke a cigarette.
Haven’t these people ever heard of online printing?
There are fabulous websites out there that will let you do all of the above mentioned work from your desk. You will not have to go anywhere, talk to anybody; everything is at your mouse tips. Mainly, just to save a few bucks, you will not have to outsource your work to “Vijay” in India, where half of what he says you cannot make any sense of; you can save all that money right here, right at home, if you do your business cards online.
There are websites that will do your business cards for you in an easy way. You go online, get to these websites, and you will find a host of cool designs for you to choose from. These are the templates; if you want to get more sophisticated, you can sit down and customize your template design using the handy design tools they have on the websites. Not only can you switch around the placement of your name, qualification, business name and address etc, but you can also determine if you want to change the design of the template itself. That is, if you have used any image editing software like Photoshop, you can use that expertise to totally customize your business card. You can change the color, add a nice logo, your imagination is the limit here if you know how to use the software.
Now comes the fun part, online printing. You can get a card from anywhere, but when it comes to printing it, that’s the real hassle part. But these websites make all that hassle go away. You just order the site to send the cards to you, printed, and they send them to you in a couple days. While ordering prints, you can select the kind of paper you chose, glossy, matt, textured etc, and you can also choose the card size. These days, the sizes of business cards are getting smaller and different too. You can find the latest size printing options right on the website, and when you order, you choose that.
These websites are unbelievably cheap and efficient too. They print your cards in expensive, high quality printers, using good paper, and they are delivered in a timely manner. But the whole service may cost you only a few bucks, and you don’t even have to go anywhere and waste time.”
Five Home Magazines I Cannot Live Without
As a kid I always thought adults knew just about everything under the sun. But, when I became one, I realized the falsity of the thought. None of us knows everything, and it becomes more mystifying as you become a parent. Raising kids is at once the most baffling, confusing, and at the same time, most rewarding of life’s offering. But, parenting is not an easy job, and you don’t have answers always. Another equally overwhelming job is maintaining a home, especially with kids around. We are not talking about just keeping things in the right place (which is a big task by itself if you have kids), but about redecorating and keeping it aesthetically beautiful. Everyone wants their homes looking as stunning as those on the magazine covers do. And, that is precisely why I have magazine subscriptions to all the best home and parenting magazines. I find them indispensable because as a parent and a homemaker, I find my woes echoed in the millions of moms across the country, and I know I am not alone. These magazines truly bring about sanity in your life. So, here’s my list of five parenting and home magazine that every woman should subscribe to.
Parent and Child: Seriously, as clichéd as you may feel, no mommy magazine list is complete without this one. This is a definite list topper. Published by Scholastic, Parent and Child addresses issues concerned with children from birth to 12 years. Not only is the magazine concerned with children, but also deals with issues related to you, like how you can balance your work as well as home etc. When you read the magazine you can rest assured, by the last page you would have a fair idea of different things from where to shop for your kids to how to raise them. Last word: fun and educative.
KIWI: Parenting magazine are available in abundance and how do you choose one to your liking? A magazine like KIWI is one of the best parenting magazines around if you choose to expose your child to eco-friendly things. Like organic food, this magazine is organic for reading. It helps parents to bring their child in a very natural and healthy way. The magazine provides you with ideas, suggestions, and tips for safe and nutritious food choices, holistic wellness tips, travel ideas, eco-friendly activity ideas for kids, and induces a sense of social responsibility to parents as well children. It also gives out coupons for organic products. Last word: Interesting, informative, entertaining and eco-conscious.
Hybrid Mom: Yeah, so you are a mom. But you also have other identities, right? Get your groove on with this magazine. It is a magazine for today’s women who are juggling the stock market, saving the nation, and deciding the menu for dinner all in a day’s work. Apart from giving an insight into the regular duties of being a mom, a wife, and a woman, this magazine promises to open new worlds to the woman of today. Last word: For the new generation hybrid mom.
Good Housekeeping (GH): Some magazines have it all. GH is a household name in many countries. Whether it is a gossip about your favorite stars (without icky details), or a summer recipe, or reviews about the best product available, or tips on redecorating your house; GH promises to deliver trusted and well researched articles without being preachy. Last word: Traditional content with modern approach.
House Beautiful: So what is different in this magazine from the rest? It is fun without being funky. It definitely features ideas that are doable in your house, it is traditional to the point of liveable but not archaic. From recipes to makeovers, from designer products to entertaining tips, this magazine will make your house beautiful. Last word: cool and comfortable.
Two Post-Recession Personalities
Times are tough and most of us are working overtime, or taking second jobs to keep up. Perhaps it is in the most difficult financial situations that we are allowed to glimpse both the best and the worst of human nature, at least with regards to spending habits. Let’s examine two polar opposites: the rainy day saving grandmother, and the college-educated soccer mom who still owes on her student loans, lives in a five thousand square-foot house and spoils her kids rotten.
Our grandmother was a child during the great depression. Her family never had a great deal of money, but they had a roof over their heads and food on the table. While she got married just out of high school, she did not reach adulthood ignorant of her fiscal responsibilities. She and her husband raised five kids in house with three bedrooms and a single bath. The kids were never upper crust, but they also never went to bed hungry. The same solid, basic fundamental principals of never exceeding your income, of saving for things that cost more than you can afford and the shame of “borrowing” were passed along to each generation. So, when the recession hit, the grandmother was living on Social Security, but she also had money in various nest eggs, and her husband’s retirement, as well. When her oldest son got laid off from a job he’d held for twenty years, he and his family moved in with mom. Granny might never have had lots of money, but she was never caught empty handed by someone in genuine need.
The soccer mom was the product of a less frugal family. She had always had the best of everything, and had attended college mostly for the socializing. She settled, in the end, for what we like to call the M.R.S. degree (she married well). Her husband was an investment banker and put most of his money into high-yield stocks. When the market went bust, their daughter was already scheduled for braces and their son had been accepted into a very prestigious Prep School. Since neither the soccer mom, nor the banker dad had any concept of saving, all of their money had been tied up in investments that went belly-up. Still, they figured their kids had to have perfect teeth and not just any child was accepted at “that school”, so they began to seek ways to borrow the money to keep up their standards until things “turned around”.
Two more divergent personalities could not have emerged from this recession. The grandmother’s frugality and generosity probably put most to shame. I daresay the average consumer can more readily identify with the soccer mom. Still, the majority of us, I believe are somewhere in between. We may have hit a hard spot, but we have sound principals. For those of you who are facing a short-term situation where you have legitimate needs and no wise grandmother to help out, emergency cash loans are available from many reputable lenders ready to help you bridge the gap. Still, let the loan be a lesson, and when you pay it off, start putting a little aside. Then, if this economy that is crawling upward slips and falls again, you’ll be more liable to help and less likely to borrow.
