How to Recession-Proof Your Life

Chemical Nasties, Domestic Goddess, Great Books, Green & Gorgeous, Health, Things n Stuff! — By admin on November 29, 2008 at 6:48 pm

Knowledge is power my darlings and with the world having gone mad, it’s time to get a Financial Education.

As you know, it’s Beauty & Brains here at Gorgeous Things, so we thought we’d bring you a series of posts over the coming months aimed at Recession-Proofing your life…whatever your circumstances.

Firstly we’d like to try to help all of you understand the real factors at play in the world economy, how these economic factors affect your lives and what you can do to lessen their impact.

Look out for our upcoming post ‘Economics 101′ – the bare facts in plain English! Then once we have the fundamentals in place we’ll give some tips for dealing with the day to day and how you can plan for the very uncertain future.

Gorgeous Things believes in awareness and action and we hope you’ll enjoy the journey over the coming months.

3 Comments

Angela says:

November 30, 2008 at 8:49 pm

Hi LA,

What a fantastic concept. At present I think that we are mostly feeling unaffected by the changes taking place in the world economy, so some timely reminders and pointers in the right direction will be gladly welcomed in my household. Your foresight is to be applauded. You go girl!!!

Angela
admin says:

December 1, 2008 at 7:11 am

Thanks Ang
Totally agree we’re fairly unaffected at this point and let’s hope it stays that way! Unfortunately none of us can afford to simply rely on hope right now…there are darkening clouds on the horizon (apologies for being so dramatic.) So it seems the perfect time to start to understand what it means when interest rates drop and banks tighten their lending of money (to everyone) and all those other factors that are even more subtle come into play. It’s going to be an eye opening journey for all of us! We certainly are living through interesting times
Suzanne says:

January 30, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Looking forward to the facts for us everyday people in Economics 101. I don’t want to hear anymore of the media hype, telling us how we will be effected. I will continue to live a life true to my values, consuming only quality products (organics etc) and believe that mass (mindless) consumption will be on the decline, not only due to the economy, but also because many people will make the switch to better quality products for our homes and bodies. Keep up the good work in promoting beautiful, quality products with your passion, knowledge and enthusiasm.