Save on Favorite Splurges - SmartMoney.com Article

Below is an interesting article about how to hold onto the little luxuries amid a sinking economy. As the article notes, it is very difficult to let go of everything that's not a really basic need. And sometimes you feel like treating yourself after a hard day at work. But this article suggests some ways you can treat yourself without totally regretting it later or, worse yet, taking the item back to the store.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106623/Save-Hundreds-on-Your-Favorite-Splurges

Tulsa's A Very Affordable Place to Live

Tulsa is not only a cool, cultural place to live, but MSNBC.com ranked Tulsa Number 3 on their 5 Cheapest Places to Rent. Oklahoma City ranked number 2.
Check out the article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23172597/.

Downtown Tulsa or Brookside - Melting Pot of the Metropolis?

I once thought it was just downtown Tulsa, but Brookside has also become the melting pot for the area. It's really amazing and bizarre actually how such a variety of personalities could successful cohabitate in such a small area. On any given day in both Brookside and downtown Tulsa you can see business executives Starbucks latte in one hand talking with the bluetooth and on the same side a homely person of extremely little - if completely non-existent means - talking to their paper sack. You would think that these two very different people, from very different worlds would stay as far away from each other as possible, on either side of the "track" so to speak, but no, they go to the same QTs, one going in for the morning paper and the other outside, sitting on that yesterday's paper, hoping for enough change to ride the bus. I don't know what this phenomenon says about our society or even our town, but it is interesting and often quite entertaining.