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How Much Is Your Time Worth?
Time is money. Right? A lot of personal finance and productivity bloggers are proponents of quantifying time by some formula related to your income, and judging the value of tasks or frugal choices by comparing them to this number. Trent at The Simple Dollar, who is a huge proponent of this system, explains the formula…
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Track Financial Goals vs. Expenses with the MoneyPants Budgeting Tool
I guess I’ve gained a reputation for being some sort of militant expense tracker, which is fine by me because I believe it’s a great way to develop money consciousness and a wealth building mindset. Many people tell me that the idea of expense tracking sounds far too depressing or too obsessive to even try.…
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Pink & Green Parenting: How to REALLY Reduce the Expense and Environmental Impact of Parenting
Parenting is expensive. (Duh!) Over the course of a lifetime, it costs about a million per kid’”four million if you do it the fancy shmancy way. And it’s wasteful: I’m not just talking about those evil plastic diapers, but the mountains of plastic toys, soccer fields of onesies, and carloads full of sundries that come…
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Time is Money ‘“ How Text Messaging can save you both
This past weekend I surprised my partner with a little trip away. We were heading to St. Louis to explore a city that neither of us had ever visited. This was going to be about a 4 hour drive from our home in Indianapolis. That morning in my daily Indianapolis business update, I…
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The Cost of a Gay Marriage Proposal
I previously blogged about how I would eschew diamonds in my marriage proposal to my partner. At the time of that post, I was still trying to figure out exactly how I would go about proposing. Over the holidays I finally did propose, so here’s how it went. Heterosexual couples have some well-established guidelines that…
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PREVIEW: Tax Tidbits
New years eve passed quickly and here we are at the beginning of another year. I’ve had a lot on my mind lately. I’ve been thinking about my various resolutions, remembering lessons learned last year, even paying attention to the upcoming elections. On top of this’¦taxes! This time last year, I published a series to…
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Jan Hanseth & Mike Bode join Queercents
Two more kids have entered the Queercents sandbox. Isn’t this fun? Jan Hanseth is a freelance web developer, a student of massage therapy, a belly dancer, and an amateur chef. As she enters her thirties, she is moving away from corporate IT, and is finding herself in the middle of a major career and lifestyle…
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Shopping is as Shoppers do
You can dispute over and over whether Costco or Sam’s Club is better until you are blue in the face. But, I think shopping at those warehouses has a little something to do with the shopper and not the place being shopped. Consumer Reports online has an investigation on Costco vs. Sam’s Club. However, I…
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The Secret Lives of Lawyers. Rich & Unhappy.
‘œI decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.’ ‘“ Mortimer Zuckerman On Sunday, The New York Times included an article called The Falling-Down Professions where Alex Williams describes how the most elite of the traditional professions (law and medicine) have lost some of their prestige. When…
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Queercents Weekly Roundup: Holiday Hangover
All right yall, it’s back to reality–whether that means opening your December credit card bill, preparing taxes, or just having to work the whole of next week. Instead of the hair of the dog (because that doesn’t work–when you’re in a hole, stop digging!) I bring you a few chill, sensible and uplifting articles from…
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