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It can be tough when you're just starting out. Here, experts and ordinary folks offer creative survival strategies and tips for eating, going out and living well when money is tight. By Liz Pulliam Weston Take heart, college graduate. A lot of people who are prosperous now, started out just like you - broke and looking for ways to save a few bucks. It may seem hard to believe, but that banker in the sharp suit once recycled cans for beer money. The consultant who now vacations in Europe furnished his first home with yard-sale finds. And noodles-in-a-cup have played a role in more than a few 20-somethings' budgets. So if your bank balance is near zero and your next paycheck seems like a mirage shimmering on the far horizon, here are some tips from folks who have been there and lived to tell the tale: Cheap Eats . You probably already know that a $3-a-day latte habit will cost you more than $750 in a work year, and bringing lunches from home a couple times a week can sav...

Someone once said, "The only difference between a diamond and a lump of coal is that the diamond had more pressure put on it." If that were the case, we should all be shining brightly by now. Sure, stress can motivate us to get things done that's the upside. The downside can be really ugly. Stress, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, can sometimes lead to physical problems, such as high blood pressure, and accelerate some effects of aging. And we all know stress may contribute to emotional upheaval irritability, anger, even depression. Here are seven easy strategies one for each day of the week to help you meet stress head-on and conquer it: Breathe . Yes! It's that simple. Breathe deeply, but don't hyperventilate. Inhale as though you were sniffing a delightful scent. Then stre-e-e-tch your arms high over your head as you slowly and completely exhale. Set Boundaries . Just like the stressed-out mom who sat in the playp...

Many people who lead simple-living lifestyles are millionaires. Their wealth is the result of hard work, perseverance, planning and self-discipline. By Janet Luhrs Many people already lead simple-living lifestyles and don’t know it. And many of them are millionaires. Proof can be found in the best-selling book, “The Millionaire Next Door,” by Thomas Stanley and William Danko. You’d never guess that the subject of millionaires could have anything to do with simple living, but it does. Compulsive Savers versus the Rest of Us The millionaires in this book were not born wealthy, nor do most of them have high-level, exotic jobs. What they do have are simple lifestyles! It’s the simple lifestyles, not the big paychecks that turned these people into millionaires. According to the book, their wealth is the result of hard work, perseverance, planning and most of all, self- discipline. So why aren’t all of us hard-working souls rich? Answer: We regularly and continually give our mo...

Being a creative professional means making the content you communicate clear, concise, and compelling. You’ve got a lot of techniques at your disposal: color, typography, photography, illustration, and so on. But no technique is more powerful than motion. In reality, the world does not stand still. If you are a graphic or web designer, an art director, commercial artist, photographer, illustrator, a communicator at work, or a fine artist, you see video and motion graphics overlapping in many different ways. A basic understanding of digital video can help you expand your creative reach. When you show a sequence of still images to a human eye, the brain
 fills in the gaps and perceives continuous motion. Film and video use this same principle to animate photographic images, which appear to fluidly move when shown sequentially at
 an appropriate rate. With similar functions, the difference between film and video is a
 matter of physical media as well as genre. Some audiences believe ...

There was an all-girl band that would throw a ‘Golden Condom” to the audience, and whoever got it, male or female, was taken backstage to have sex with band members. Jamais vu is the opposite of deja vu. The closest living relatives to the Tyrannosaurus Rex are chickens. Earth seems to have a second moon. Asteroid 2016 HO3 will be our "quasi" moon for centuries. Most of the world does not refrigerate eggs. North America, Japan, Australia, and Scandinavia are the only places that do. The Great Pyramid of Giza has eight faces - not four. The concave indentations that halve the four sides are only detectable under specific lighting conditions. Kia Silverbrook is the world's most prolific inventor. Silverbrook holds more than 9,700 patents. By comparison, Thomas Edison accumulated 2,332 patents. Olli is a 3D-printed self-driving minibus. The bus, made by Local Motors and powered by IBM's Watson, was unveiled in June 2016 and is already on the road. Sci...

Based on shadows, astronomers have pinpointed the exact moment Life Magazine’s iconic Times Square Kiss took place - 5:51 PM on August 14, 1945. Research shows that kids start to understand their gender at two years old, and can easily identify it by three years old. NASA has a Planetary Protection Officer whose job is to prevent us from contaminating other planets. Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch ever, surpassing Queen Victoria. In France, a megabyte is called a “mega-octet” because “byte” means “cock” and “megabyte” is unintentionally rude. The filming of the movie ‘Titanic’ cost more than the Titanic itself! Stars don’t appear to be moving, but they are actually traveling roughly 1,000 times faster than the fastest spacecraft that’s ever flown. As of 2016, the modern British Army has more horses than tanks. If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don’t, you can’t see it. The steel industry, in 1943, introdu...

At least three major historical conflicts were started over access to salt. Self-discipline better predicts success than IQ, according to research. It rains diamonds on Jupiter. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. North Korea and Finland are separated by only one country. Nintendo's Mario has his own LinkedIn page that includes his roles in various video games. Food waste generates a significant amount of the greenhouse gas methane when it's buried in landfills, but not when it's composted. Eating bananas, pasta, almonds, grapes, oatmeal, chocolate, watermelon, orange juice, cornflakes, and tuna can help relieve stress. Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste. Your eyes move all over the place while you dream because they are tracking the imagery you're seeing, just like they do when you're awake. According to a research by Professor Edward Wasserman of the University of Iowa, pigeons can distinguish identities and emotio...