Author: Nina
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Ten Money Questions for Dan Butler and Richard Waterhouse
Although they live in Vermont of late, Dan Butler and Richard Waterhouse are what I call a Hollywood couple. Dan is best known for the role of “Bulldog” on the Emmy award-winning series “Frasier” and Richard is an acting teacher and director. They appear in the new mock-umentary feature film, “Karl Rove, I Love You”……
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Spending Money on Same-Sex Anniversary Gifts
‘œTrue love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.’ ‘“ Erich Segal Jeanine and I celebrated our fifth anniversary last Thursday. We never had a commitment ceremony and although we consider ourselves married, neither one of us ever had a burning desire to stand up in front…
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Do You Want to Date a Gay Millionaire?
“Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail” — Richard Friedman If you poke around the website of the Gay Millionaires Club, you’ll find this review in the press tab. One client writes, “My mother always said, to my sister of course, you could fall in love…
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Queercents bids farewell for now.
After drawing 1.5 million page views with nearly 2,500 posts from over 50 contributors; Queercents is taking a time out. More precisely, its leader needed a break. Since 2006, Queercents has consumed my early mornings and a good deal of my weekends, but it’s time to pass the torch to someone better equipped to write…
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Eight ways money can buy happiness
Awhile back, Gretchen Rubin, projector of all things happy, listed 8 tips for how money can buy happiness. The entire list is a worthy read, but I wanted to emphasize number two and her suggestion that couples should use money to: End marital conflict. If you’re constantly arguing about the unkempt lawn, or the moldering…
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Monetizing the Hate: queer sites should mimic this mommy blogger
I’m a mommy and while I don’t read any mommy blogs, one of my mommy friends pointed me to this post by Heather Armstrong, the famous mommy blogger. She recently launched Monetizing the Hate, an online depository that aggregates all the hate-mail submitted at Dooce and she surrounds it by advertising. A lot of advertising.…
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Finance “advocate” in The Advocate
My latest column for The Advocate appears in the Oct Issue. You can also check out the articles online: 1. Yours, Mine, and Ours: Avoid relationship penalties by creating both individual and joint bank accounts. 2. Trading Faux Fun at WeSeed.com 3. In Defense of Luxury… even as conspicuous consumption is put on hold. Image…
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Queercents on Marketplace Money
On Friday’s Marketplace Money, Host Tess Vigeland and Economics Editor Chris Farrell answer questions about how same-sex couples should handle assets and protect retirement money from over-taxation. Farrell points the listener to, ‘œa pretty good web site which I’ve only recently been spending some time on called Queercents.com.’ Nice to hear we’re noted as a…
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Step aside housing crash, cupcakery is the next bubble
Daniel Gross at Slate magazine writes that the current recession (starting in late 2007) fueled the cupcake boom in America. He’s predicting the bubble is about to burst: The cupcakeries are succeeding for a few reasons. They’re peddling a product that is simple, obvious, and generally affordable. Most of the new joints charge about $3…
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Why do people spend money to store their stuff?
‘œYou can’t take it with you but you can certainly find a place to stash it away.’ ‘“ Tom Vanderbilt I’m captivated by the self-storage industry. More notably, my business sense is boggled trying to understand the demand for it and why people waste money to store their stuff. Sure, there are good reasons’¦ most…
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