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Sleeping With Money: Are You a Roommate Person or My-Own-Place Person?
For this edition of Sleeping With Money, I decided to branch out a bit from the money lessons learned from dating and relationships. It’s a slight stretch, but I thought it would be fun to cover the platonic (and literal) spectrum of sleeping arrangements/co-habitation: Roommates. The lesson: Figure out if you’re a roommate person before…
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Busy Person’s Retreat, A Strategy For Improving Workplace Productivity
Kathleen E. Allen and Gar E. Kellom, professors of education, wrote about the amusement park ride that involved a large spinning saucer cylinder. ‘œWe enter’¦ which then starts to spin. The spinning increases until we are pulled away from the center. At its peak speed, the floor drops out from under us, and we stay…
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WWYD: Stay In Town, Go Away or Do Nothing for Long Weekends?
Zac and I recently took advantage of a rare moment of serenity for our crowded city. Many San Franciscans flocked to Burning Man, and a major bridge was shut down for the entire Labor Day weekend. We decided to be tourists in our own town, partly to avoid traffic hassles, but mostly because we wanted…
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Three Tips for Tracking Expenses
‘œIt’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.’ ‘“ Adlai Stevenson You would think since I write about money and work in technology that I’d be at forefront of all the Web 2.0 tools available for personal finance. But I’m a surprisingly late adopter and admit that…
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The Gay Libertarian
Why I’m a Libertarian Ok, so I’m a Libertarian. And suffice it to say I am proud of that fact. I don’t jump on bandwagons too easily nor do I ever, EVER vote for the “lesser of two evils.” Doing that just gets more evil. The comment that pierces through my eardrums like fingernails on…
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How To Smartly Give Away Assets During Your Lifetime
Laurie Flynn is a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and is a supporter of Queercents. She’s written a few posts these past weeks on the topic of investing. These are her words’¦ How To Smartly Give Away Assets During Your Lifetime Giving away your financial assets can be more complicated than just writing a check.…
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Many Uses for Towels
It can be embarrassing to put out threadbare towels for guests, but your rag box will only hold so much. So what do you do with the other towels? Old towels make good insulation around hot pots for the potluck at school, work or church Cut off the fraying of threadbare area and make smaller…
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Observing Labor Day with Working Americans
Today as many of us celebrate a day of rest, here are some not-so-fun facts about working Americans (courtesy of Mother Jones): POOR AMERICANS spend 1/4 of their income on residential energy costs. A MINIMUM WAGE employee who works 40 hours a week for 51 weeks a year goes home with $10,506 before taxes. THE…
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Queersmarts about RSS
Jerame Davis who writes the Gay Geeks column at The Bilerico Project provides the skinny on RSS Feeds. He explains why all the hype around RSS: RSS helps keep you up to date with more of your favorite websites. It’s much faster to load than a full web page with pictures, movies, etc. You get…
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Why Theater Tickets Are Expensive
I love theater. Once you’re done gasping from the shock that yet another gay man loves Broadway, let me tell you why tickets are so expensive. In all honesty, I’m not even sure I found the definitive answer. Research for this post felt more like I was digging for hidden information that could put the…
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