Gwyneth Paltrow Offers Budgeting Advice

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This is good advice. Sometimes we tends to look at the person who is delivering the message and not the message itself. Gweneth is giving good advice what we should do is try and apply it into our lives. In this time we need to stick to our budget and stop collecting the unnecessary credit cards.

FinanciallySmart of KY 9:55AM November 25, 2009

I like GOOP, it's engaging and new. Dissing on Gweneth is NOT new, it old hat. I get more new information and ideas from Gwen's goop newsletter than I do from all the haters who dis on her. Really, let's be positive. Take what you can from her newsletter, and leave the rest. At least she is making a positive effort to improve the world with more ideas, more knowledge, more sharing. All the snarksharks who post against her are spreading negativity. Don't feed the negative dog inside you, feed the positive one--because the one you feed is the one that will get stronger. Now grow up and go out and spread positivity.

Beth of VA 8:31AM October 08, 2009

This is great advice for people who have a JOB. I am trying to just get by from one week to the next. Food is a luxury, HA, HA. It's not that bad yet. But I am worried about keeping my house this Spring, I am hanging on right now.
Have credit cards from when I was working I could not get paid off before I quit my job. I had to use credit cards to get by on. Could not make enough money from working.
I drove a Semi truck and I would sit for days waiting on a load to deliver.
While I was working my pay did not cover regular expenses and the company I worked for was making it harder on me financially. They wanted me to park their truck 400 miles round trip to my house and the terminal. Some weeks my pay was $250. then I would have to spend to live on while working.
If a truck is not moving the drive does not make any money and usually it cost the driver to sit in one location. We have to eat everyday and take a shower. Then you sit in a space, 8X10 for days. Talk about mental anguish.
I am collecting unemployment and looking for a job 5 days a week. Trying to educate myself in the skill of writing. I have a book started about "Surviving the Movie the Burning Bed."
I can not afford to go to school so I am doing the best I can for now. Lord willing I will be able to hang on through 2010.

Denise Fletcher of MI 10:36AM October 05, 2009