Author: Nina
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Netflix and a Living Wage
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt As a Netflix subscriber, it was with great interest that I read the article by Susan Sheehan in The New Yorker about Netflix as a delivery system. Ever…
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Raptured from Credit Card Debt
“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” — Luke 21:36 On Saturday, there was an article in the LA Times by Christopher Goffard called Father, Son and Holy Rift. It talks about…
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Festival of Frugality #38
Welcome to this week’s Festival of Frugality. We’re calling it… Queer Eye for the Frugal Guy by offering readers a few hip tips that will make you sound smart, look great, and live fab. That’s fab as in f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s frugality! Hip “Fashion” Tips: Bling on a Shoestring Jewelry gives us New Clothes for $5 or…
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Ten Money Questions for Amy Guth
Amy Guth just released her debut novel called Three Fallen Women. It has been described as “violent and shimmering… a story of three women caught in the vortex of breaking down.” I got the crazy idea to ask her a few questions about money with regards to her colorful characters and herself. Amy is a…
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Money and Mates: Q&A with Pam & Kate
This week, Queercents interviews Pam and Kate in North Carolina. They love to dress up, eat out and never fight about finances. Pam is the publisher of Pam’s House Blend and because they’re frugal, money flows like an endless pot of coffee.
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Vino Investing: Buy What You Like to Drink
“By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.” — Thomas Jefferson A few weeks ago, Jeanine and I visited her friend that lives in Northern California. The friend’s partner is a small business…
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Who Pays for Sex Reassignment Surgery?
“They don’t ‘cut it off!’ It just becomes an innie instead of an outtie.” – Felicity Huffman as Bree Osbourne in Transamerica Denise Lavoie, an Associated Press Writer in Boston reported on the case of a Transgender Inmate Seeking a Sex Change. She writes, “Wearing lipstick, a scooped-neck sweater and nearly waist-length hair, the witness…
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Mundane/Necessary Topic of Life Insurance
“The great enemy of the truth is not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy If you weren’t interested in personal finances, then you probably wouldn’t stop by Queercents. So when I talk about plan, plan, plan… I’m preaching to the choir.…
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Are Gas Prices Eating Up Your Dining Out Budget?
“Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.” — Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Is anyone eating out less? We typically only eat out on the weekends, but I think that’s unusual for many people. We don’t necessary eat in for budget reasons but rather because we genuinely enjoy cooking. After work, it’s…
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Maintaining a Lifestyle of Conformity
“A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.” — H. L. Mencken Jeanine and I rarely sit around and watch TV. Before we lived together, I didn’t even have a television so it might seem strange that we’re willing to pay for…
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