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Queercents Weekly Roundup: Happiness in Every Day
At long last, the weekend is here. Time to work on projects, do some cleaning, sleep in, or all of the above. Right on the heels of Ellen and Portia’s wedding, Hallmark is now selling gay marriage cards. On a foray into the store, I also noticed that there are congrulatory coming out cards as…
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The Essential Checklist Before Accepting a House Guest
We learn by our mistakes. There’s one mistake I’ll never make again, and it’s accepting the house guest from Hell. It’s surprising how many of us have these stories. Recently Zac and I ran into another couple we know. They were coming home from a jog. I casually mentioned that I didn’t know they were…
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Are Class Action Lawsuits Worth Your Time and Money?
Recently I was listening to the news and heard about the Airborne Class Action Lawsuit Settlement and started thinking — as a purchaser of Airborne, if I hadn’t heard it on the news or read it on the web, how would I ever know I’m entitled to money? And, for suits like these where I…
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Ten Money Questions for Davey Wavey
Davey Wavey maintains a popular blog at Break The Illusion where he charts his stories, experiences and reflections as a young gay man on his journey of exploration and discovery. A couple of times each week he posts talky blogs. When he volunteered to participate in our Ten Money Questions, he suggested answering in his…
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Gen Y Finances: Should You Be Thinking About Internet Banking
From my post on budgets, you would think the answer is yes, and you’d be right. Partly. I certainly wouldn’t be the first to point out the most attractive feature of online banks: better interest rates. Over the past two years, the main trend I’ve seen is that most online savings accounts have interest rates…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Eat Your Broccoli, Part 2
This is the seventh installment in our weekly series about food budgeting. Last week one of our readers made a really good comment about factoring the cost of driving into your food budget. It’s been a long-standing mantra that the best way to save money on food is to check out the weekly food ads…
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Why Work Sucks And How to Fix It
When I was writing a recent article on telecommuting I stumbled across the book “Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It” by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson. I recently received a complimentary review copy of the book and couldn’t put it down. In my day I spent over 17 years in Corporate America stuck…
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What Would Oprah Do? The price of 365 days of discipleship.
‘œFollow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.’ ‘“ Buddha On Sunday, The New York Times pointed readers to Robyn Okrant, a 35 year old writer, performer and artist living in Chicago. She’s living Oprah for a year. What does that mean exactly? She’s…
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No confidence: a weak administration equals a weak dollar
No confidence is worse than false confidence, and the obnoxious and arrogant hubris that is spewed by economic idiots like the current President of the United States ‘“ George W. Bush has become nauseating. Lets be crystal clear (as Richard Nixon would say), the record budget deficits, caused by ill advised tax cuts, an ill…
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Financial stress associated with ‘what if’ scenarios
Since there are times in our lives that bring about added expenses and stress, such as a loss of job, medical surgery, loss of a family member or a major relocation, we need to have a plan in our head for the ‘˜what if’ scenario. For example, let’s look at a job loss: 1. Figure…
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