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Laziness and My Lamest Money Drain
I absolutely love to cook. I always have, but since moving into my own place and having my own kitchen I’ve sort of exploded. This weekend, I successfully navigated my first solo pot roast and made bagels from scratch. Cooking, especially the kind of extreme cooking you associate with grandmothers or holidays, feels at once…
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WWYD: Gifts that keep on giving; the art of regifting
Regift: (verb) To give an unwanted gift to someone else; to give as a gift something one previously received as a gift. ‘“ Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition Jeanine and I recently received a lovely hostess gift and after realizing ‘“ what it was and where it came from ‘“ I said,…
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Review: The Little Book That Makes You Rich
While travelling for a business trip last week, I had the opportunity to read The Little Book That Makes You Rich, by Louis Navellier. It’s one of several books in the Little Books Big Profits series, in which various investment professionals cover different investing strategies. The book claims to contain “a proven market-beating formula for…
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Foster Parents Balance Emotional Economy
After Kate posted a comment on Queercents, I checked out her blog, Foster Mamas and learned about her role as a foster parent. I thought she might an opinion about queers spending too much money to make a baby, when there are so many kids in need of parents. I figure she’d have something thought-provoking…
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Reducing, Re-using and Re-claiming
How are you reducing, reusing and reclaiming your life? The documentary ‘œAn Inconvenient Truth‘ helped me understand my impact on the world around me, the documentary ‘œAffluenza‘ helped me understand the amount of waste I have in my life, and the many documentaries I have seen about the poor conditions people live through in other…
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Saving Money on Christmas Trees
‘œThe perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!’ ‘“ Charles N. Barnard When Jeanine and I try to cut corners and save money, it typically is a disaster. Like the time we canceled our cleaning service at the house. This money-saving experiment lasted about two minutes and the ironic part of the story was…
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Getting the Best Return on Charitable Giving
When investors buy shares of company stock, they expect that company to use their money to generate returns by using the money wisely. A good investor will do a lot of research, including looking at the company’s past financial statements, free cash flow, return on equity, and other factors, to be confident that their money…
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Queercents Weekly Roundup: Reader Participation Edition
Hi, everybody. It’s one o’clock Saturday morning and, after leaving the party I was at early because I was so tired, I am having a little too-exhausted-to-sleep insomnia. It was the busiest week ever at work, and I feel sort of dazed, like I’ve washed up on the shore after a shipwreck. If there was…
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Ten Money Questions for Joe LaMuraglia
Joe LaMuraglia loves cars. As the founder and publisher of Gaywheels.com, he knows a thing or two about kicking the tires and looking under the hood. When it comes to spending your hard earned dollars on a vehicle, Joe and his team of car buffs have answers. Let’s put the top down and take a…
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Sleeping With Money: Leaving the Workforce to be a Homo Homemaker
I recognize the potential of my partner Zac easily out-earning me several years from now. Some day I could have the option of dropping out of the workforce if I wanted. When I tell people that, I’m automatically assumed to be lazy or some sort of gold-digger. Or, they take one look at Zac and…
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