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Turning Spenders into Savers: The Benefits to Paying in Cash
Have you seen the new Visa Check Card commercial? It features a lunch room cafeteria in full swing, with dozens of people ordering, cooking, walking and paying ‘“ all perfectly synchronized. While busy, cheery music plays in the background, the whole cafeteria is engaging in this well-coordinated routine; seen from above it looks like a…
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“It’s for a Good Cause”: Why I’m Taking Election Day Off
Knowmore.org‘s tagline is “Vote With Your Wallet.” But money isn’t the only thing you can spend when it comes to supporting causes. Like the oft-repeated saying goes, time is money and we can also invest time to support what we believe in. While previously I’ve been able to volunteer on my own time and without…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Utilizing Root Vegetables
Welcome to another edition of our weekly food budgeting series. One of my favorite things about the Fall is the abundance of root vegetables that are available. Right now you can find beets, turnips, parsnips, and rutabagas at super prices at your grocery store or in your CSA basket. When I was young, I never…
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Femme Economics: Five Frugal Fall Fashions
Well, you asked for it: More On Fashion! Last time on Femme Economics I talked about Butch-Femme spending on clothes. Before that I even talked about ‘œSplurges That Make Sense‘. And then the stock market crashed. I know, mostly we’re hiding our cash under our mattresses, hiding our credit cards from ourselves and making…
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Doctors, Healthcare Givers and Transsexuals: Discrimination Happens Part One
Given their high degree of education, you would think that doctors, and healthcare givers in general, would be quite forward thinking and accepting of the transgendered. I have not always found that to be the case. In the years of my transition and since I have had two less than ideal experiences with…
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Pink and Green Parenting: Five Reasons for Queer Parents to Vote
When I post my next Queercents article, we’ll have a new president-elect. Yipee! (Hopefully, that yipee isn’t premature…) For those of us still shell-shocked from the disaster of 2004 (not to mention 2000), the excitement and anxiety are overwhelming. I’m all too aware of the problems with electoral politics, the winner-take-all system, the undue influence…
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What Kind Of Shopping Experience Will You Put Up With To Get A Lower Price?
Most of us here are a little (a lot?) obsessive about getting the best price for products… especially those that might be called necessities… like food. But compulsion to get the best price has a trade off in the overall “experience” of shopping… which may be a Good Thing if it makes you NOT want…
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Price of Grad School Applications: Spooky, Scary?
As the weather cools down, costume shops and haunted houses become high-traffic areas, and this year’s installment of the Saw franchise arrives in theatres, I can’t help but recall–with a shudder–my experiences during this season one year ago. While I was finishing up my semester and pulling together my Edie Sedgwick costume for Dallas’s…
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Announcing the Career & Money eBook!
Long time readers of Queercents might remember the Career & Money series I wrote starting in March of 2007. It seemed almost like ancient history to me when Nina suggested I update it and compile it into an eBook. Well I am happy to say that it is now available for download and is recently…
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Cost benefits of using less… a little dab will do ya!
One of the areas I am consciously trying to change is my need to have all of it. Not in the form of materialism, but in the way I use items, like the amount of food I eat, the amount of toothpaste I use and the amount of water I shower in. A frugal life…
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