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Author: Nina

  • Gold Parties: sell your bling to pay bills

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    Apparently gold is the new Tupperware. Someone alert Phranc! I saw this segment on CNN the other day and then a quick Google search wowed me: A twist on Tupperware and Mary Kay parties, gold parties bring together friends, neighbors and co-workers who are looking to cash in on the rising price of gold, but…

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  • Queercents introduces Andrew DeVita

    Andrew DeVita is a 21-year-old transguy and recent transplant in the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he spent two years in southwest Virginia studying Psychology before having an existential crisis, dropping out of school, and boarding a bus headed across the continent. A homeless stint and $3600 in credit card debt later, he…

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  • The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

    Last week, Jeanine and I became two of the nearly 9.5 million people that have viewed Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture on YouTube. Pausch was the Carnegie Mellon professor that lost his battle to pancreatic cancer back in July 2008. Several months before he stepped in front of an audience of 400 people to deliver a…

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  • Review: One Big Happy Family edited by Rebecca Walker

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    At Queercents, I typically only review personal finance and business books, but when an email arrived from Rebecca Walker, the best-selling author (and my favorite bisexual) it was easy to make an exception with this cue: ‘œIt is always the right time to support families. All of them.’ Which leads to Walker’s latest work, One…

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  • Beating bad money habits: are you a moderator or abstainer?

    Does anyone have any bad money habits? Most people can list a few’¦ When we’re trying to modify bad behavior, is it better to abstain or moderate? We’ve all heard ‘œeverything in moderation’ is typically the best policy’¦ or is it? Gretchen Rubin at The Happiness Project makes a great point about this over at…

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  • 3 ways to make money after moving your twentysomething self to the big city

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    Clint Osterholz is a comedian and young gay urban nomad who has lived in a number of cities in North America. He knows a thing or two from experience about how to move on a budget. We posted Part One and Part Two of this series recently and he’s back to share a few more…

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  • Queercents introduces James Roy

    James Roy is an electrical engineer by day, music artist by night and now a Queercents contributor in between. His interest in personal finance is a new one – as recently as the summer of 2008, he began reading finance books and blogs, he started tracking his expenses, and he looked for ways to cut…

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  • How to buy shares directly from companies and avoid commission fees

    Giveaway Alert: We have two copies to give away of The Moneypaper’s Guide to Direct Investment Plans (a $27 value). Comment at the end of this post for your chance to win a copy. Anyone remember my epiphany earlier this year about how I learned the difference between Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and Mutual Funds? Here’s…

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  • News Bites: Should political donations be public record? EightMaps.com controversy.

    In California, most gays and lesbians got wind of EightMaps.com when a link made its viral way around the Internet about a month ago. The web site is a mashup of Google maps and public information available about supporters who donated so Prop 8 would pass. It made me feel a bit queasy when I…

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  • Queercents is seeking a few fresh writers

    It’s that time of month where we put out the call for new writers: Do you have something to say about money? Perhaps it’s a story, like the one being shared by Alex, that will help others learn from your experience. Or maybe you just want to tell our readers about something you have mastered…

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