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‘Till Finances Do We Part (or Merge)
Managing joint finances can be a challenge for all couples gay and straight alike. Unfortunately there is no how-to manual on managing a couple’s finances and running a home. Perhaps one never got written because in the old days a man and woman would marry, the man would have a career and bring home all…
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When Debt Means Happiness: Avoiding Burnout
Moorea pointed out in a recent post on going to beauty school that a recession is the perfect time to take out a student loan. Still, it hurt when I signed that promissory note so that I could go to career school and become a massage therapist. We have an entire course in massage school…
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A Richer Life Without Cable Television
I went back to NY to visit my family this past Christmas. I haven’t had cable TV for the past seven years, so I was looking forward to catching up with all the latest cable entertainment offerings during my stay. I certainly did watch a lot of TV, but to this day I still don’t…
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WWYD: Lie to Keep You Career?
If you knew that the only way you could save your career was to deny and lie about who you are, would you? That is precisely the dilemma a soldier faces under the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. To a lesser extent that same challenge often presents itself to professionals who work for employers that…
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An Inconvenient Flip: Shifting Real Estate on a Dime
While Jason and I are still enjoying our new house, I want to talk about another real estate experience we encountered. During the fall of 2006, my partner and I looked all over Indiana for a vacation property to enjoy for the summers to come. We finally settled on Nineveh, a small Indiana town about…
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Pink & Green Parenting: How to Save Money While Going Organic
‘œOh, so you shop at Whole Paycheck?’ ‘œOrganics! Well, my family can’t afford that.’ ‘œWe didn’t have all these special organic products when we were growing up, and we’re fine, so why bother?’ These are some of the comments friends and family make when they hear that we’re trying to raise our kid in an…
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Buying Real Estate in 2008
This is a guest post from Jeff Hammerberg, the founder of GayRealEstate.com, the largest company in the nation representing the rights of queer home buyers and sellers. These are his words’¦ Insightful advice for leveraging this historic market to your own advantage. Although the champagne at the bottom of the bottle is still chilled from…
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Femme Economics: The Beauty of School
Waxing, Facials, Body Scrubs. It’s amazing when people take time out of their schedules to treat themselves well. It has always been a crazy dream to one day open up my own eco-sustainable, organic spa. So I have been researching, that’s right’¦beauty school! An Esthetician program, to be exact. Cheaper than hair-cosmetology school, and even…
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Tax Tidbit #3: How to Obtain a Copy of Your Tax Documents
As you gather information for your 2007 tax returns, you may need to refer to prior year returns. Do you know where your archive records are? Are they in the basement, or storage closet? Or perhaps they were they destroyed in a flood or disaster? Did you lose them during a move? While I generally…
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Dr. Martin Luther King Day Personal Finance Connections
At Treading Together we often work with diversity and multiculturalism. Many of our events or programs revolve around holidays such as today, Black History Month in February, or Women’s History Month in March etc. I wondered if there might be a personal finance connection. Here are a few of the connections I found. Forbes.com reports…
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