Author: Nina
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Reverse-Engineer Your Life
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” — Abraham Maslow Nate Nickerson, the former managing editor of FastCompany, wrote an article on priorities and how it impacts happiness. He writes, “A few years ago, a colleague in his fifties mentioned a TV program in…
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Making Peace with Plastic Grocery Bags
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss in The Lorax I confess… I’m not the most frugal person. I even get fewer points for recycling. But it’s never too late to learn a tip or two about frugality and alternative uses for…
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God and the Million-Dollar Bill
“Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.” — Henry Fielding This weekend as I stood outside Starbucks (waiting for Jeanine to buy an afternoon cup of Joe that would get us through the rest of our errands), I saw a man stoop down and pick up what looked to be…
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Steak and the Economy
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it” — Ronald Reagan In the past, I’ve written about housing starts as a leading economic indicator. Investopedia defines it as, “how many new…
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Ten Money Questions for Gina Trapani
Gina Trapani is the editor of Lifehacker.com. Lifehacker is one of the more useful Gawker Media sites because it offers “life-altering” tips for managing information and time… and time is money, right? I asked Gina a few questions about personal finance, consumerism and her history with money. 1. Do you agree with the proverbial saying…
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Take a Financial Mulligan
“Opportunity is just success looking for a place to happen.” — Greg Hickman My partner, Jeanine, recently bought a new set of clubs so we have been on golf kick lately. With golf, you’re allowed to take a mulligan a few times throughout a social round. We use the mulligan freely. It’s a game. It’s…
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Gay Marriage: Love & Money
“Marriage is not about love. It’s about a love that can bear children.” — Todd Akin, Republican Congressman from Missouri What is marriage? We like to talk about it here at Queercents because marriage is not only about love but it has a lot to do with money too. We’ve had guest posts and guest…
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Peer-to-Peer Lending
“Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” — Ambrose Bierce Queercents has covered both peer-to-peer lending with Dawn’s Prosper.com post and microfinancing with her Kiva.org post. Here’s another one mentioned in the latest issue of Business 2.0. The broader article discusses “disruptors” in business…
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Orbitz and Lesbian Travel
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson The Media Awareness Network reports that, “While considerable progress has been made with respect to the depiction of gays and lesbians in television and movies, critics argue that news media still…
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Ten Money Questions for John Aravosis
John Aravosis is an online activist and posts daily at AMERICAblog where he covers the politics of the Bush Administration and the radical right. John is a proud, gay American and he believes that a great nation deserves to hear the truth. I asked John to get personal about money and the cost of causes…
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