An article at the Motley Fool provides tips and strategies for preparing as best you can for an unthinkable disaster:

Preparation is the best defense against the demons of nature and other unforeseen disasters. While a beekeeper’s suit or a personal bomb shelter might help you rest easily at night, there are more practical ways to [...]

An article at WikiHow offers advice on how to retire in your 30’s

The financial freedom of a modest, early retirement is actually achievable for many smart and motivated people in college or their early 20’s. If you make early retirement your highest priority in life and follow a disciplined path to obtaining it, you should [...]

A lot of organizations use the same interview questions that can put you at a large disadvantage if you’re not prepared:

You know they’re coming: Those seemingly unanswerable questions that pop up during job interviews.
You can’t clam up. And you don’t want to stutter and stammer. So what’s a job seeker to do?

This article at HotJobs [...]

Sally Deneen of Environmental Magazine gives tips on how to recycle commonly discarded household items:

Don’t throw away those exercise videos and ubiquitous AOL CDs. Jim Williams wants you to mail old videotapes and CDs to him, so that more than 40 disabled staffers at his ACT Recycling in Columbia, Missouri can recycle them. And, oh, [...]

Although I already do this online using online banking, BillQ offers a way to manage bills online.

billQ is a new web-based application that gives you an easy way to keep track of your bills. With billQ, you can make sure you always know exactly what you have to pay, and when you have to pay [...]

This article at JobSnake passes along tips on what things you should research about before doing an interview:

When you go in for a job interview, you’re not just a candidate seeking a job. You’re a potential problem solver and contributor. To play that role effectively, you must be armed with the right kind of information. [...]

A website called iShip provides a way to compare shipping costs and give you various shipping options between carriers.
Another site to check-out for the same purpose is Red Roller.

One thing I admittedly dislike is having my picture taken. It’s very rare that a good picture of me is the end result, and generally I hate seeing how I look in photos. Luckily wikiHow has a few tips on how to be photogenic:

Do you hate having your picture taken because you always [...]

A writer recently retrained himself to start getting up at 6 AM:

How I Trained Myself To Get Up Earlier in the Morning
I am not what you would call a morning person. I’m a writer, for heaven’s sake! But recently,when I’ve had a lot of work stacking up and I’ve added a blog into my daily [...]

SmartMoney lists 10 things that you probably don’t know about gas stations.

With gas prices hovering at around $3 a gallon since spring, consumers are getting desperate. Some have cut back on driving; others have swapped their gas guzzlers for economy cars. And everyone is shopping around for the cheapest gas. The problem is, drivers often [...]