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Fire Up the Grill and Open Your Wallet
It’s the official start of summer this weekend with Memorial Day Holiday at least in the US. The unofficial start of backyard grilling and chilling. I know one of my favorite things to do is grill a nice meal, uncork a great wine, and just sit on my tiny deck and enjoy the weather. We…
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Alternative Lifestyles: by alternative, Kimber Chin means financially alternative.
Aspiring writers are told to write what you know. Kimber Chin took this advice to heart and writes novels based on two things she knows best: business and romance. ‘œI love business,’ she says. And there happens to be a lot of lovin’ going on when her characters get down to business. These are her…
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Building Wealth Consciousness from Within – Part 1
There are many internal conflicts within the human psyche that people are motivated to resolve in order to flourish in life and experience greatness. One of those conflicts is the resolution of poverty consciousness versus wealth consciousness. (Consciousness means mindset.) Humans are innately motivated to resolve this conflict and secure prosperity. One path to building…
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Queers and Health Insurance: Market to Us, We’ll Buy!
Nina forwarded me the results of a recent study indicating that nearly a quarter of gay and lesbian adults lack health insurance. Apparently, we’re twice as likely as our straight counterparts to go through life without health coverage. I’m lucky. Although I’m self-employed, I’m covered by my partner’s company plan. The portion that pays for…
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In Search of Gay Money: Don’t let money ruin your partnership
As gays and lesbians writing about money, we’ve grown weary of reading all the personal finance content that’s written from the perspective of straight marriages. So at Queercents, we’ve turned the tables on money and relationship advice by asking: What if all of our favorite money columnists were gay? Would their advice be more relevant…
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Managing money with your spouse or long-term partner
There are a number of ways to merge money, and a number of degrees of merging from ‘What’s mine is mine’ to ‘we share everything’. Whatever you do when you make a long-term commitment to your partner (poly people, as usual, might have more factors involved), you’ve got to do something, and it must work…
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An Alternative to Freecycle: The ReUseIt Network
1. If you have been booted off of a freecycle group for a rule that you weren’t aware of…2. If you have been booted off of freecycle because you didn’t post your request or offer exactly right…3. If you have walked away from freecycle because people have broken rules by selling or the group has…
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How gays & lesbians can sway rest of country on gay marriage: Wed with our wallets!
‘œMarriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.’ ‘“ Mae West Last week, many of us had reason to celebrate as the California Supreme Court ruled that the ban here on gay marriage is unconstitutional. I’ve received many emails from friends asking if we’re going to get married. Jeanine and I…
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Queercents Weekly Roundup: Happy Graduation!
This weekend I’m going to my alma mater’s graduation ceremony. My congratulations go out to all those graduating this spring: good luck and all the best! An awesome May tip for any college town–we always went to the Goodwill in June for this reason. (Read it at Get Rich Slowly) True story? My cell phone…
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Reducing Pet Costs: Pet Sitting and Boarding
Although I live in Brooklyn, my family is in California. My partner Grace’s family is from Virginia. So between family visits, week-long vacations, and weekend getaways, we can be gone quite a bit. This leaves our cats, Francie and Hammy, up to their own devices, which, in all honestly, probably consist of sleeping, sleeping some…
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