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Splurging on Safety: Disregard Cost Per Use
Recently Paula wrote about a topic that actually has been referenced quite a lot here, and that’s calculating the true cost of an item in terms of cost per use. (J.D. has a handy formula for hours required to purchase an item for a different approach.) I’m definitely in favor of using things until the…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Thanksgiving on a Budget, Part 2
Holy moley, can you believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner? Last week’s edition of Stretch Your Food Dollar was about cheap and easy Thanksgiving dishes. And this week we’re talking turkey. Literally. Since I’m a vegetarian, I don’t do much by way of cooking a turkey. The Food Network, however, has several pages…
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Surviving Financial Infidelity: The Discovery
I’ll probably never forget the day I found out. It was around the middle of October ‘“ our daughter’s birthday weekend ‘“ and we had gone camping. Since we were expecting quite a few well-wishers calling for our daughter, I’d forwarded our home telephone number to my cell phone. At one point during the…
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How the Election Might Affect Real Estate
For two years the political election campaign dragged on – often through slug mud – as the real estate market simultaneously continued its record-breaking fall. But with the pivotal elections behind us the nation’s housing and mortgage situation may be primed for improvement. One plan that Obama talked about during his campaign was a proposal…
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Queercents introduces Alex Taylor
New Series Alert: We recently launched two new series at Queercents: Rachel Gollay’s Grad School Finances and Michael Moy’s Luxe Life (the ups and downs of being a gay house husband). This week, Alex Taylor joins the fold. Alex will be writing about Financial Infidelity and how a relationship can best recover from it. This…
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Joys and Perils of a Luxe Life: Comfort’s Discomfort
Jay always kids me about how I bounced back and forth above and below my credit limit until my mid-thirties, teetering on the edge of he terms ‘œcertain financial collapse.’ Yes, I lived beyond my means. But it was my (loveable) little quirk, and its familiarity was comforting (to me). Jay, on the other hand,…
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6 Myths of Garage Sale Shopping
Most people don’t buy everything new. Some buy used cars, get hand-me-downs, or recycle furniture from their parents. Garage sales are no different, you are just acquiring items in a new way and you should look at it as such. A way to save money, save landfills and find something you enjoy, last longer. Along…
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When celebrities fly coach (or at least on a commercial airline).
‘œCome fly the Friendly Skies.’ ‘“ United Airlines commercial, circa 1987 Diddy isn’t the only celebrity flying commercial these days. In the past 2 months, I’ve seen Eva Mendes, Ron Howard, Paula Abdul and Carson Kressley ‘“ either inflight or at the airport. I think Brian Grazer was traveling with Ron Howard, but I couldn’t…
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Queercents Weekly Roundup: First Snow
On Tuesday, we got our first flurries of snow in Maine. Admittedly, I’m a little disappointed that the sun is almost completely gone by four p.m, but beautiful flurries of snow on a cold crisp afternoon is still a beautiful sight. When I saw this headline in the Boston Globe, it certainly did wonders to…
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