Author: Nina
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The Working Poor and Living on Minimum Wage
“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.” — David Shipler Awhile back I wrote about the workers of Netflix and their $9.00 per hour jobs. Most of the reader comments concluded that it was fair pay for unskilled work happening in these Netflix hubs. However, the point of that post really was to…
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Helena, The L Word, and The M Word
“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.” — Sophie Tucker Jeanine and I finally caught the replay last night of The L Word’s premiere of Season 4. In case you missed it, AfterEllen.com provides a preview of the entire season along with weekly recaps. Helena, our favorite trust fund darling, experiences money…
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Seven Money Questions for Queercents
“If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily” — Chinese Proverb At times it’s nice to have the tables turned on you. Andrea Dickson at Wise Bread wanted to get to know us better at Queercents so yesterday she sent along a few questions to introduce us to their readers.…
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Queercents introduces John Montesdeoca
“Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.” — Orison Swett Marden There’s a new kid on the block! John Montesdeoca has joined Queercents as a contributing writer. By day, John is a corporate litigation…
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Ten Money Questions for Lane Hudson
Last September, blogger Lane Hudson posted improper e-mails sent by Mark Foley to a congressional page. This set in motion a chain of events that resulted in the Republican decline during the Midterm Election of 2006. Lane’s actions became news. Big news. Dubbed the Washington Whistle-Blogger in Time Magazine’s Person of the Year issue, Lane…
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The Difference between Debt Consolidation and Debt Settlement
“Debt is the worst poverty.” — Thomas Fuller Got Debt? In this day and age, many people have consumer debt and typically this means credit card debt. Peter Berkery at PlanetOut Money writes, “Credit cards are evil. You should never carry a balance on them.” This tip is found in an article appropriately titled, Satan…
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The Small House Movement vs. Big, Bad Houses
“If size did matter, the dinosaurs would still be alive.” — Wendelin Wiedeking On Sunday, Arrol Gellner, an architect and syndicated columnist, wrote an article that appeared in the LA Times entitled: What Was Supersized May One Day Be Downsized. He writes, “The size of the average American house more than doubled between 1950 and…
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Setting Goals: Realistic, Routine and Socially Binding
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill Émile Coué is the father of autosuggestion and according to Wikipedia, “Autosuggestion is a process by which an individual trains the subconscious mind to believe something, or systematically schematizes the person’s own mental associations, usually for a given purpose. A trivial example…
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Ten Money Questions for Stewart Lewis
Stewart Lewis has many talents: he writes novels and makes music. He is what the world would label a creative type. As you’ll learn below, his bank account has grown with each artistic success, but that doesn’t mean he ever intends to balance his checkbook. I asked Stewart to get personal about fame, fortune and…
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WWYD: Exploiting Return Policies
In this week’s “What Would You Do” series, I thought we could tackle the topic of merchandise returns. We all probably received something over the holidays that we want to return or exchange. To start, here are some tips from Mark Huffman at ConsumerAffairs.com that you can keep in mind at any time of the…
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