If you're lucky enough to score a job interview, you're going to want to be wearing a tie. Even if it's for a job that requires you to wear a name tag, or where Casual Friday is the norm. And if the only ties you've got in your closet have piano keys or cartoon characters on them, you gonna want to update your tie selection.

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Harking back to a simpler time - when your 401K actually had money in it, Banker was a respected profession, and your house had something called "equity" - General Mills has rolled out retro designs on the boxes of its most popular cereals.

You can forget the current mess you're in, and sit down for a hearty bowl of Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs or Trix, sporting box designs from when you were a kid. And your biggest worry was trading baseball cards, not trading sinking stocks.

And in true old-school marketing style, send in five UPC codes from the cereal boxes and General Mills will send you a vintage cereal logo tee. Just go to www.cerealwear.com for info. And if the economy has really got you down, and you can't spring for the $20 for five boxes of Cocoa Puffs, you can send them $5 and they'll send you a shirt.