The Slackers Guide: Being a Bridesmaid

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There comes a point in your 20s when your friends start getting married for the right reasons, as opposed to the majority of your friends who were getting married early on because they’re unstable/dumb/weird. Eventually, those friends will ask you to be bridesmaids. A lot of those times, you’re going to have to say yes, especially if it’s your cousin who doesn’t have any actual friends and your mom makes you.

Your job as a maid of honor or bridesmaid may differ, depending on the wedding. Some brides will expect you to just show up in your expensive-ass dress the day of the wedding and look pretty, but not so pretty that you’ll outshine her. Other brides will want you there every step of the way, through thick and thin, to be there for her tantrums, and to down Jose Cuervo through the night on those days where she’s having cold feet.

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When rednecks attack

What in the hell would you do in this situation?!

75 Million. For A House. In Manhattan.

We know you’re wondering what to do with that $75 million you have lying around under your mattress. Well, look no further, as the answer is in the real estate listings. Just when you thought the housing bubble had burst into flames, a 45-foot wide townhome on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is up for grabs.

This 1920s town home, on 22 East 71st Street is currently the highest-priced lot in all of New York City

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What to do with that stimulus check

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The government started sending out stimulus checks this week. If you’re a tax-paying American, making less than around $80k (depending on how many dependents you have), and if you’ve filed your taxes, you will probably get one of these checks — but you should still check with the IRS to see if you will. Instead of using the $600 for a Hummer down payment like the government wants you to do, consider boosting your financial status (or someone else’s):

1. Pay off your debt.
There are many kinds of debt that you likely have — credit card, student loans, your Macy’s card… If you’re going to use your money to knock off a chunk of debt, you should probably go with the most pressing line of credit that you have like a high-interest credit card. If you don’t have a ton of debt, well then, good for you for being an anomaly.
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Links: Recession Edition

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It seems as though people are writing more an more about the pending recession each day. It’s not without reason: The Dow is tanking today, people around the world are rioting for food, gas is around $4 where I live, it hurts to buy basic groceries, the unemployment rate is inching up, and McDonald’s stock price is rising because it’s the cheapest place to eat. It’s bad, people. After the jump, peep a few articles here and there to help you figure out a game plan for when Wall Street suits start jumping out of buildings (you do have a plan, right?)

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McCain: More education, less equality

While the Senate was deciding on a bill to ensure equal pay for women, Republican presidential nominee John McCain stayed on the campaign trail. While he wasn’t able to vote, he asserted his thoughts on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act:

“I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what’s being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems,” McCain told reporters yesterday. “This is government playing a much, much greater role in the business of a private enterprise system.”

He also said that women should simply have more training and education. You know those women with the college education and 5 years of work? Well, they need more training in order to be paid the same as a dude with the same credentials, apparently.
The “more education” argument probably does not apply in the case for the act’s inspiration, Lilly Ledbetter, who spent 19 years at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
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