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Save money by making your coffee to go
How much do you spend on lattes? Perhaps your poison is it’s cheaper cousin; plain old coffee. Or maybe you think nothing of your frappuccino fix. You deserve it, right? I mean, after all – you’re going to work. You woke up early (like you always do), it’s Friday (just like it is every week),…
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Do You Need Debtors Anonymous?
Take this Test! If you answered yes to eight or more of these questions, the chances are that you have a problem with compulsive debt, or are well on your way to having one. If this is the case, today can be a turning point in your life. This idea looks very interesting’¦ Some people…
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Financial Infidelity by Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil
‘œThey spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.’ ‘“ Oscar Wilde Love and money go hand in hand which is why financial infidelity is often just as damaging to a relationship as a physical affair. Just ask Kathy Griffin. Better yet, ask Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil. She’s an internationally acclaimed relationship therapist…
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Freelancing: Supplement Your Income or Go to Work without Leaving the House
About a year ago, a friend of mine told me that she was freelance writing for work. I was as well, but my friend was working full-time at it; I was not. We started discussing project sources and ran through many of the Internet options available for the hunt: craigslist.com, various message boards, gumtree.com for…
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News Bites: Boost your career with cosmetic surgery!
I scoured my Google Reader in search of less apocalyptic topics to discuss, but wow… methinks financial press editors are getting one helluva a high from reporting nonstop gloom and doom — time to lay off the pipe fellas! Thankfully there’s always absurd news to distract us, and this “U.S. News and World Report” article…
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Ten Money Questions for Donna Rose
Donna Rose writes, speaks, and is an advocate for transgender and transsexual issues. Her personal memoir is called Wrapped in Blue and as one review describes, ‘œtakes on the beautiful mythic proportion of the hero’s journey.’ From my perspective, Donna is probably the most recognizable face of the trans movement because of her efforts around…
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Reducing Pet Costs: End of Life Care
A sad topic for this week, but a necessary one: sick pets. While we don’t like to ever think of our little friends not in perfect health, the reality is that more often than not, we outlive them. This means we’re usually in charge of important end of life care issues, as well as making…
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Is Your Corporate Job Really Safer?
A few months ago I had lunch with some of my old colleagues from my most recent corporate job that I left 9 months ago. As they were busy stressing about having taken a lunch break (my boss will kill me!), shuffling papers for work (I just need to get this one thing done!), and…
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New Study Reveals LGBTQ Spending Habits
Serena Freewomyn is a contributing writer at the The Bilerico Project and she had something to say about how queers spend disposable dollars and the responsibility of the companies that want our money. These are her words’¦ A new report from Prime Access, Inc., an advertising agency that targets African American, Hispanic, gay and urban…
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My Bet on Crude: $150 per barrel
With the worlds population at 6.6 billion people, and the U.S. at 302 million (that’s 4.5% of the worlds population), and with the United States consumers guzzling roughly 14% (13 million barrels a day) of the worlds energy resources, is it any wonder that the U.S. must learn to conserve energy? The daily supply produced…
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