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Ten Money Questions for Lisa Fernandes
A fourth season of Bravo’s hit reality show, Top Chef kicked off this week with a new batch of chef’testants hoping to win $100,000 in seed money to open a restaurant. Lisa Fernandes is one of three lesbians making the cut in Chicago and after the first episode; she’s still simmering with her sharp knives…
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Tipping Etiquette: Should Bloggers Get Tipped Like Baristas?
The reasons for tipping in restaurants are pretty straightforward’”servers make their living entirely on tips. But what about people who are otherwise paid a standard wage? Is the mere act of doing something for another person eligible for a gratuity? To help answer this, let’s examine something else very near and dear to my heart:…
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Credit Cards: Beware of the Fine Print
Credit cards seems so straightforward on the surface, but a dizzying array of fine print details can make using yours more like running through a land mine laden field of financial woes. As someone who pays the balance in full each month, avoids late fees, and never uses it for cash advances, I tend to…
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Sleeping With Money: price you’ll pay dating a soccer mom
‘œOur similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.’ ‘“ Tom Robbins A more accurate title might have been Sleeping With Money: Don’t Date Single Parents, but obviously soccer mom is a better descriptive to get clicks on this post. After all, you’re reading it. I…
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Your Data Are Assets
I couldn’t find my thumb drive yesterday. For a few hours, I was worried that I left it at a public computer at school. Of course my main concern should have been getting it back, but actually, I was obsessed with trying to remember what was actually on it. Then my mood dropped like a…
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Six Month Review: The Big Girl World
I’m about to hit the six-month anniversaries of my first solo apartment and grown-up job. This time last year, I thought college graduation might kill me’”I am happy to report that I have not only survived, I’m happier, healthier and financially more stable than I was six months ago. So here is the review: what…
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Class: realities, perceptions, and how wealth fits in
‘œMoney is related to class only in the minds of people who have too much of the former, too little of the latter or none of either.’ ‘“ Doug Robarchek A couple of week’s ago, the New York Times published an article about the survivors of the notorious nightclub fire in Rhode Island that took…
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Pink & Green Parenting: DIY Shower Gifts
It’s finally spring, which means’¦ it’s baby shower season. I’m up to my ears in showers; I have four friends who are so pregnant they’re about to pop, and one who just adopted. Though I’m not a fan of most over-commercialized holidays, I love the ritual of honoring someone on the brink of parenthood. And…
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Buying Visibility, One Quarter At A Time
I am sitting in the laundromat down the street, waiting for my triple-washer to finish its spin cycle. The owner has asked me to hang out and talk with him today. “I feel a sermon coming on,” he says. Father Peter is an evangelical Christian. He’s a priest at a nearby church, as well as…
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Digits: Because there’s more to life than taxes.
Giveaway alert: read this entire post for the chance to win! Digits is the newly launched site from H&R Block created to extend the tax office experience and offer a place to connect with their customers online. Sounds kind of strange’¦ or boring to say the least, but I have to admit, they’ve done ‘œcommunity’…
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