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Queercents introduces Aundi Howerton
We’ve added another contributing writer to Queercents! Aundi Howerton is a poetry and fiction writer living in Los Angeles and writes for several blogs, including a daily political blog. Aundi identifies as gender queer and strongly supports the depolarization of gender specificity. We continue to strive to offer a broad range of views at Queercents…
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Sleeping with Money: What Happens to One Happens to Both
No matter how you slice it, once you are in a committed relationship, whatever happens to one person affects both of you. Even if you keep your financial lives somewhat separate, let’s face it, there is a joint impact. Some unexpected events from this week got me to thinking about this very concept even more…
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Weekend Entrepreneur: Dating Should Be Fun And In Mass Quantities
This week I spoke with Adele Testani who co-founded HurryDate.com in partnership with her childhood friend Ken Deckinger. Having found fun and enjoyable ways to earn money on the side in 2001 Adele and Ken were typical weekend entrepreneurs. Adele told me that in the early days it was typical for her and Ken to…
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Want to Know The Secret Behind “The Secret”?
People keep asking me, “What do you think of the movie The Secret ? Usually they ask because they want a chance to share what they thought of the viral, mega-hit Law of Attraction put to the small screen via DVD movie that has been talked about everywhere recently. I find most people I talk…
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Sleeping With Money: How to Undo a Wedding
In this week’s Sleeping With Money I let you in on some of the foibles of my past. Oh dear, how we queers love serial monogamy! And so many of us also want marriage equality so badly that when we fall for someone, we start thinking big. Three years ago, I was quite madly in…
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Almost Debt Free: Choosing the Best Emergency Savings Plan For You
There are two camps to the emergency savings issue. Camp A tells you to immediately pay off your debts and let credit be your emergency cushion until you can start saving money to cover 3 months expenses. Camp B encourages you to put away 3 months living expenses as you slowly pay off your debts.…
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Overdrawn Accounts Fuel Banks
I remember being young and new to banking. With my account I received an ATM card, a relatively new invention at the time. I used my ATM card freely to withdrawal cash or spend money. Here’s the interesting part, if there was no money in my account my card wouldn’t work and the transaction would…
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Prepping Your Income for Retirement
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… Prepping Your Income for Retirement Just as they’ve revolutionized American culture, baby boomers are reinventing retirement. They are expected to live longer, play…
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Cool Your Home and Your Spending
I’d like to highlight a few ideas that I have found work in my residence and of course if you have further ideas, don’t hesitate to speak up and post below. 1> Use a bloody fan for Pete’s sake, and stay cool! – Good grief, even I forget to do this occasionally; running to the…
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Outliving your Money: Retiring with HIV
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore Here’s a “savings” stat to scare us as we head off to work on a Monday morning. According to Money magazine, “57% of workers age 45-50 have saved less than $50,000.” Earlier this year, I wrote a post about The Longevity…
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