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Sleeping With Money: Out Earning Your Partner
“Perfect love cannot be without equality.” – Scottish Proverb Last week, Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity posed a question (primarily to straight men) as a way to learn if they are / would be bothered by their wives earning more money than them. Some of the comments were quite interesting if you care to…
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WWYD: Would you risk your life to get out of debt?
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.” — Albert Camus Can you name a serendipitous moment that changed your life? I can trace my life’s path to several and maybe I’ll cover the complete list in a future post. For now, I think one of those happenchance moments occurred yesterday when a…
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Stages of Wealth Management
Laurie Flynn is a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and is a supporter of Queercents. She offered to write a few posts over the next couple of weeks on the topic of investing. These are her words… Stages of Wealth Management: In today’s fast-paced world, investors have more to think about than simply their stock…
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Brazen Careerist Lesson #5: Professional Wandering
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Here are my final thoughts on the Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk. This post is actually a continuation of Lesson #3: Thirty is the New Twenty and it’s about Professional Wandering. She writes, “What about the people who pull their life together in a tight…
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Are Pets Worth the Price?
“If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.” — Andy Rooney When I first met my partner, we both had our “deal breaker” issues about getting involved in a long term relationship. She wanted children and needed to know upfront if her prospective mate would be up…
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Controlling Investment Risks
Laurie Flynn is a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and is a supporter of Queercents. She offered to write a few posts over the next couple of weeks on the topic of investing. These are her words… Controlling Investment Risks: The word “risk” is not something that conjures up a pleasant image in the minds…
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Brazen Careerist Lesson #4: Manage personal life
“Although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources to do some thing about them.” — Henry Ford In Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk states that if you’re a mess at home it going to show at work. Under the heading “Manage Your Personal Life” she writes, “You’re kidding yourself if…
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Sleeping with Money: Our First Big Money Fight
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” — Barbara De Angelis It’s rare that Jeanine and I ever have a serious argument. It’s even more unusual when the squabble is about money. We typically see eye-to-eye on finances and even though our money styles differ, our overall philosophy is the same. When…
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Using Cash in a Cashless World
“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” — Irene Peter My oldest sister has been married almost twenty years. She brought to the marriage a considerable amount of credit card debt and her husband helped chip away at these balances during their first few years together. She has been debt free ever…
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Countering the Financial Burden Shift
Maggie Jennings is a registered representative with New England Financial in New York and has been a supporter of Queercents since our launch over a year ago. She writes articles for us from time to time. These are her words… Imagine: You’re within pennies of affording that dream vacation, only to have your car conk…
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