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Tell me; is anyone fighting about money?
‘œLove is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.’ ‘“ Lori Gordon Jeanine and I typically pick only one show per week to watch on television. A few months ago it was Big Love. This fall it’s been HBO’s Tell Me You Love Me. I guess you can peg us as the…
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WWYD: Never Buy Discount Gifts?
I’m not the biggest fan of gift-giving, as I’ve mentioned in the past. I prefer gift-making. One reader who wishes to remain anonymous sympathizes with my views, but goes along with the formality of buying gifts anyway to ease social pressures. In an email to me, she writes: “I don’t know where I got this…
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Don’t Know Where You Want to be in Three Years? Try a Relationship Action Plan
I finally read Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. I now owe this man gratitude for saving me from another seven years of professional wandering. Ferrazzi urges readers to create a Relationship Action Plan (RAP) before proceeding with the rest of his book, which gives tips for reaching out to those who can help you…
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Diamonds Are A Tradition That Gay Marriages Can Do Without
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to how I want to propose to my partner. Do I want to do something simple and romantic? Something dramatic and public? It’s not something I ever really thought I’d need to consider, but lately I’ve been searching around on the web to see what other gay couples…
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Free Tools for Helping You Become a Better Communicator
Here is a guest post about time, money and free tools by my friend, Colleen Wainwright aka The Communicatrix. These are her words… There are a million ways to waste time on the Internet, but if you approach a lot of them with the right attitude, they quickly morph into terrific, f-r-e-e tools for helping…
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Financially Organized: Receipts
In the last installment of Financially Organized we organized your bank statements. These gems contain the bulk of your financial information but they don’t list all the information you’ll need. Unfortunately, we have to keep receipts too. Those pesky slips of paper litter our wallets, purses, homes and lives. Your receipts contain details of the…
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I moved to Indianapolis for the money!
I’m very excited that I have been asked to be a contributing member of Queercents. I’ve never been a writer, so I ask that you excuse any mild grammar errors. My interests are in real estate, debt reduction, and tax reform (including FairTax). The vast majority of my posts will tend to fall in these…
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Queercents introduces Phil Lavoie
Queercents has a new contributing writer. Meet Phil Lavoie. A couple of week’s ago, Phil asked to write a guest post about the FairTax plan and the LGBT community. He’s a fan. Some of you weren’t quite as enthusiastic about his ideas. But that’s okay… he created a stir in the comments section and prompted…
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A Good Loan at Prosper
It has been a while since I updated you on my Prosper experience. The little loan that I took out has been paid back early, as that was my original goal and I wanted to test out the process. I was able to secure a 1k loan at 18% – it was bid down from…
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Under Earning Women and the Imposter Syndrome
‘œAs far as I’m concerned, being any gender is a drag.’ ‘“ Patti Smith Much has been written about gender and money with women earning only a fraction of what men do. That said, sometimes the wage gap is reversed for gays. All this talk got me thinking about what’s really holding women back when…
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