A recent prison inmate from Georgia has turned his time in the slammer into an entrepreneurial education. His new business: making womens purses from newspapers.
Im not joking.
Vincent joined them a few years later. He worked for Diamond Plastics in Macon and on the chassis line at Blue Bird in Fort Valley until he was laid off. After a brush with the law, he found himself incarcerated at the Western Pre-Release Center, a Department of Corrections facility in Butler.
It was there a fellow inmate taught him the method of folding strips of newspaper, cigarette wrappers and other paper products. He would wrap them tightly in cellophane (for waterproofing) and transform them into intricate designs on everything from handbags to flip-flops to laptop covers.
It was a difficult skill to master, almost like putting together a challenging jigsaw puzzle. But Vincent had enjoyed working and creating with his hands ever since learning to carve in his high school woodshop class. And it was something to do to pass the time.
He never dreamed it would become his livelihood until he was released and had a difficult time finding a job. He started his own foray into this brave, new world.
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Through careful Craigslist shopping, my husband and I have been able to purchase almost all the items we need to furnish the baby’s room. I went out to the garage, saw the neat stack of used furniture, and broke into tears. Rather than see brand new furniture boxes with happy baby photos on the front as I had always imagined, I saw someone else’s stuff.
I felt like I had failed all my picket fence dreams.
Several of my friends are having babies and they share their stories of shopping for furniture at pricey stores and picking out themes. Meanwhile, my ‘theme’ is – buy study wood furniture that matches… sort of. Don’t get me wrong, it will look great and I’ll spend 90% less than my friends, but I couldnt help but feel a little ashamed that I spend my weekends at garage sales and traipsing through people’s homes asking for deals.
Yesterday morning, the head of HR stopped to chat. He and his wife are expecting their third and very, very, unexpectedly, accidental child. They have to start over on purchasing baby goods and he mentioned the killer deal he got on a crib from Craigslist.
I choked on my caffeine-free tea. ‘What?!?’ I gasped, trying to take a breath.
Keep in mind, this guy makes well over 100K a year.
“Yeah, it’s great. Why should I take the hit
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If you’re looking for a share investing Tip you’ve come to the right place. Investing tips come from everywhere and from all sources. From strangers you over hear chatting in the shop to the pros on the TV.
When we are in a robust bull market, and it feels like the market won’t go down irrespective of what, you can get a great stockmarket investing tip just from throwing a dart at the list of stocks in Backers Business Daily, and come out with a winner.
An Investing Tip can come from an article you read in the newspaper or a magazine. Usually the time you read about it, the stock has already made it’s big move. That is when the smart money starts taking their profits and sells to the dump money.
Sometimes investing tips come as a pump and dump. With the smaller priced stocks it doesn’t take much cash to buy a lot of shares. They can then start talking about, or writing newsletters about how good ( pump ) the company is solely to get folk to start purchasing the stock, and simultaneously they’re selling ( dump ) their stock.
If you’re getting into the market due to a tip you were given, you are sure to lose your hard-earned money. Sure you may
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Sector exchange traded funds moved as a herd over the past month as macroeconomic forces pushed and pulled the stock market. Rising ETF correlations suggest that the so-called risk on and risk off trades are ruling the day rather than bets on individual stocks or sectors, a market strategist said Tuesday.
Nicholas Colas at ConvergEx Group each month breaks down data on ETFs tracking sectors, precious metals, international stocks, currencies and bonds to determine their correlation against the U.S. stock market as measured by the S&P 500.
Inflamed Eurozone worries have knocked stocks down somewhat after they ended June and the first half of 2011 with a strong rally. However, sector correlations rose during the bounce, Colas said. In other words, the sector ETFs all went up together as industries traded in “virtual lock-step” with the S&P 500 as a whole over the past month.
“That’s unusual for U.S. equity
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When booking out of town travel for work, I get to choose where I stay. We have a generous maximum allowance that most employees use fully even upgrading room choices for nicer suites.
In my crazy mind, I figure the finance department actually monitors the spending and takes note as to who spends the limit, and who saves the company money. I didn’t want to book a budget busting hotel and chose one a little further away in a less expensive area.
I didn’t say it was a bright idea.
I arrived at the hotel and was pleased to discover it wasn’t too bad. The area was nice and the buildings had been renovated sometime in the last 4 decades – a big plus for me. Remember folks, I stayed in hostels in Europe with mold growing up the walls and dirty sheets. My standards are what some would call… shockingly low. Anyway, I liked the place. I wouldn’t say I felt ‘safe’ but I felt I could adequately survive the night.
At around 7pm, a high pitched scream echoed down the hallway. It was followed by more screaming.
A lot of screaming.
Turns out, the occupants in the next room where the proud parents of a 5 year old who took to screaming whenever she didn’t get her way. That particular s
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