May. 5, 2010
Ms Morrison Speaks on Enlightened Budgeting
I suggested carrying around small post-it notes in our purse or wallet and recording EVERY cash expenditure for 30-consecutive days. YES, 30 consecutive days will give you a clear picture of where cash may be slipping through your fingers, yet more importantly, if you are spending money OTHER than for what you value most. So, with a little commitment to writing down our goals and our ultimate values and then recording how we are spending our money, we can instantly detect and correct incongruencies and re-chart our course towards future joy and fulfilled memories and carefree retirement, before we’ve lost too much time. Remember women: It’s Never Too Late! Time and health are our only assets when you get right down to it. We Can Do It Women!
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Aug. 27, 2009
Hello again!
I’m delighted to be pictured here with New Jersey’s distinguished Senator Loretta Weinberg. Over 400 men, women and kids gathered last night at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center to celebrate Ms. Weinberg’s selection as Governor Corzine’s running mate. The press swarmed the event in order to capture a bit of Loretta’s spirit and grace.
From providing Seniors in NJ with checks good for NJ fresh produce under the Farmers Market Nutritional Program to battling Big Tobacco to ensure smoke-free indoor public places, Loretta Weinberg has proven herself to be a tireless worker for the people of New Jersey. When Jon Corzine chose Loretta to be his Lieutenant gubernatorial candidate she introduced herself to voters as the “fiesty Jewish grandmother” of New Jersey politics.
She’s sponsored bills requiring insurance companies to pay for at least 48 hours of hospital care for new mothers and their babies, as well as lowering the legal alcohol level to .08 aiming to crack down on drunk drivers. Further, she spearheaded the landmark autism research bill that funnels $1.00 from NJ Traffic Violations to autism research; i.e., $20 million dollars to autism research without costing NJ taxpayers a dime.
Loretta is dedicated to the preservation of families for more than 3 decades in public service. She created the Governor’s Advisory Countil on Adolescent Preganancy, and also established NJ’s Child Proof Handgun Bill which mandates safety locks on all handguns, the first of it’s kind in the nation!
She serves on the AARP board in Teaneck and was a founding member of Shelter Our Sisters, as well as being active in the American Red Cross. I’d say she’s worked consistently over the past 40 years to enhance the opportunities and lives of NJ’s men, women and children like no other. She’s been called the “conscience” of New Jersey’s legislature.
What better example of We Can Do It Women is there? Loretta is widowed yet still manages her life and money with courage and a sense of purpose. She doesn’t give up. I implore each of us to take a page out of Loretta’s book, and take a stand against whatever injustice we encounter–not only for ourselves, yet for all who follow, young and old.
I applaud senior women who are filled with hope and enthusiasm, and channel it to their own empowerment, and then to those more vulnerable. Loretta, at age 74 models hope and fun for this and future generations. Congratulations Loretta!
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May. 11, 2009
Not YOUR weight, the weight of your US postal letters or packages! As you know, today marks the third straight year’s increase in the cost of the first ounce of first class mail at the United States Post Office. Today, it will cost us an additional 2 cents to mail our first-class mail, up from 42 cents to a whopping 44 cents. (Postcards’ postage went up 1 cent to 28 cents now.)
Beware, however, that the second ounce cost remains at only 17 cents. I don’t know how many times I’ve received mail with two first class stamps affixed, which represents a waste of 25 cents under the old rates, and now 27 cents. Well if you would stoop over to pick up a quarter off the sidewalk, I suggest you be mindful of only affixing 17 cents representing the cost of each additional ounce after the first one. It pays to be cost conscious, yes even with our small change, because with the miracle of compounding even small savings add up to big dollars over time. So, if you don’t have an ample supply of 1 cent and 2 cent stamps, get some soon, and be mindful of your money.
Even with the rate hike, the Post Office apparently could still run out of money by year end. What better time then to consider buying even a used computer and getting your kids or grand kids to hook you up with email? It’s so easy and fun to be in touch with those you love, and the added benefit of being able to do so whenever you want, even instantly, surpasses waiting for the Post Office to deliver something. (They’re even proposing only delivering mail 5 days per week, eliminating Saturday service, so it could be a long weekend, with no correspondence, right?)
Always the planner, I, of course, bought $200.00 worth of “Forever” stamps. Now, with this financial news out this morning of the potential demise of the Post Office, I wonder what the definition of “forever” is if it goes bust. I guess, on second thought, it’ll just become another buy-out, stimulus recipient, and our grand kids will end up paying the bill. (That will be particularly ironic and sad, since very few young people even use the Post Office, but I digress…)
We women always like to shop, and particularly to save money, so I will remind you that if you don’t want to buy your own computer, you can use the free computers at the local library, as well as other computer centers in your town. You can take an introductory course offered at lots of places, just keep your eyes pealed for local courses. It’s fun! Just ask my mom and a dear friend, both of whom I bought a computer for several years ago, and now they’d really be lonely without hearing from their friends via email several times a week, or even daily.
We women can learn new skills, and we do all the time. Think of it. How many of you had cell phones 5 years ago? How many of you are learning how to “text”?
Well I want to invite you to learn about your finances too, with my help. We will be launching a teleseminar later this summer, yet there are tips and products on my website all the time, so sign up to receive our information, and get aboard!
We’ll talk about exercise and maintaining the rest of our health in another session. :-)
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Apr. 28, 2009
I will be hosting a free call tonight, April 28th, check it out, and please get yourself registered. You cannot afford to miss this information!
http://www.msmorrisonspeaks.com/money_tips/
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Apr. 8, 2009
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Feb. 10, 2009
Alex Rodriguez’s admission to steroid use from 2001-2003 yesterday was the latest example of tarnish and cheating and lying. Young? Not too young to cash the big checks! Stupid, yes, I’ll readily agree. Greedy? Check. Selfish? Surely. A hero? Not.
They say he’ll be treated better because he was honest and admitted steroid use. Yet there wasn’t much of an apology was there?
As I read the breaking story he only “came clean” after the results were released of a 2003 random drug test that showed him testing positive. Not exactly a forthright confession in my opinion, especially after his bold-faced lie to Katie Couric as recently as 2007 attesting that he never used performance enhancing drugs. I mean, how about the Texas Rangers, and their fans, and now the Yankee organization and their fans as well as all those who hold the record books as hallowed? Not sure I can believe his stop date, or the start date, for that matter….only Alex knows for sure.
Already sports writers have jumped to the plausibility that he will be granted leniency in the Hall of Fame vote! I’d like to see ¼ of Alex’s remaining contract pay be diverted to Whitey Ford and those legitimate Hall of Famers who played and excelled for the love of the game, to buttress their pittance pensions. Only when Alex and other major league cheaters feel it in the wallet, can we imagine that they will be truly sorry. In the meantime, let me tell you, cheating doesn’t pay in the long term, and the costs along the way are far greater than anyone could ever imagine.
Why doesn’t Alex admit something obvious while he’s at it? Why doesn’t he admit that he continues to be an albatross to the NY Yankees, even absent his latest confession? Where have all the championship rings gone that were supposed to grace their fingers, once Sir Alex was signed?
Why, when the National Baseball League, or National Football League, or National Hockey League for all that matter, have consistently been riddled with drug-laced meatheads masquerading like athletes, don’t they test every week, alternating the days of the week of the tests? I would far rather have a portion of my bloated ticket price funnel to increased frequency drug testing than to pad the cheaters’ paychecks and pensions!
I can acknowledge that people make mistakes. I’ve certainly made a couple. Yet, I do have a problem with people deliberately taking measures into their own hands, when they’ve been unwilling to do the hard (and often time consuming) work of achievement! What kind of example are they setting? Where’s the risk and reward standard?
On a similar note, what’s Illinois’ Ex Gov. Rod Blagojevich so concerned with what his young daughter will think of his conviction and impeachment, all of a sudden? Somehow I think he got the order wrong! Children aren’t stupid and the lucky ones have 2 eyes and 2 ears with which to observe and make their own judgments about all adults, yes especially their parents.
I must draw a marked distinction here however between Alex’s latent admission and Rod’s continued defiance regarding their respective cheating. Alex does offer a semblance of hope, for which I’m exceedingly grateful.
Don’t we all know the saying, pigs get fatter, and hogs get slaughtered? Do I have to revert back to my farm days and produce pictures of pigs and hogs for people to be able to differentiate and understand?
I mean here’s to capitalism and all, yet good bye to unabated greed and above-the-law egotism!