Shoshi Says: Single Women Are Hot

Written by Yolanda Shoshana


Shoshi Says is a titillating column about women’s issues.

Just when businesses and advertisers think they have women all figured out enters a new category with serious buying power:repparttar single woman. It is projected that in 2005 single women will spend $400 million dollars which hasrepparttar 130403 business world standing up and taking notice.

There use to be a time when single women were treated like outcasts and looked on with pity. Unmarried women were secretly called “spinsters” by friends and family if they were not wed byrepparttar 130404 time they hit 30. The tide is beginning to turn as single women send outrepparttar 130405 message that they can do for themselves.

Businesses as well as politicians are now checking in to see what makes single women tick. The census data shows that 40% of women betweenrepparttar 130406 ages of 25 to 29 are not married. While 23% of women inrepparttar 130407 30 to 34 age rage are not married. One can only guess thatrepparttar 130408 percent of single women over 30 will grow due torepparttar 130409 fact that more women are stating that marriage is not of interest to them. The messages coming from single women are diverse from choosingrepparttar 130410 single life asrepparttar 130411 preferred lifestyle, choosing career over marriage first, to one person homeownership.

How to Have an Abundant Holiday Season

Written by Kalinda Rose Stevenson, Ph.D.


How To Have An Abundant Holiday Season

“There is no ideal Christmas; onlyrepparttar one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.” – Bill McKibben

“As you simplify your life,repparttar 130401 laws ofrepparttar 130402 universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, not weakness.” – Henry David Thoreau

Thanksgiving has come and gone. Christmas is onrepparttar 130403 way. How many times has someone asked you “The Big Holiday Question?” If you are a woman, you have probably heard it several times already. You, yourself, might have asked others The Big Holiday Question. If you are a man, you probably have no idea what The Big Holiday Question is.

The Big Holiday Question

The Big Holiday Question is, “Are you ready forrepparttar 130404 holidays?” I first became aware of this question years ago. I noticed that women began to greet each other with The Big Holiday Question, starting sometime in late October, and kept askingrepparttar 130405 question into January.

I also noticed that almost every woman answered The Big Holiday Question with an exasperated, “No,” and then begin to reciterepparttar 130406 myriad of tasks she “had to do.” I have often heard women end their recitation with a fervent declaration, “I dreadrepparttar 130407 holidays and wish they were already over.”

If you listen, you will hearrepparttar 130408 question everywhere you go. The Big Holiday Question is something likerepparttar 130409 private code of a secret society. By asking The Big Holiday Question, women instantly recognize themselves as members of a society of sisters overwhelmed with Too Much To Do.

“Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense inrepparttar 130410 shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially. “ --Fanny Kemble

More Is Not Abundance

Ironically, The Big Holiday Question is one ofrepparttar 130411 most powerful and insidious enemies to living an “Abundantly Alive Now!” life. The reason is thatrepparttar 130412 Big Holiday Question is propelled byrepparttar 130413 idea of doing more, and more, and more, and more. All around us, we are bombarded with messages of more.

Whetherrepparttar 130414 reasons are innate or socially created, women seem to feel responsible for doingrepparttar 130415 lion’s share ofrepparttar 130416 “have-tos” to get ready forrepparttar 130417 holidays. As far as I can tell, men do not drive themselves crazy asking each other The Big Holiday Question. Holiday overkill seems to be a female sport. For many women,repparttar 130418 holiday season is driven byrepparttar 130419 idea of shopping more, spending more, buying more, cooking more, baking more, simply doing more, and more, and more.

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