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Using Cash in a Cashless World
“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” — Irene Peter My oldest sister has been married almost twenty years. She brought to the marriage a considerable amount of credit card debt and her husband helped chip away at these balances during their first few years together. She has been debt free ever…
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WWYD: Forgo the Opportunity or Call in Sick?
For anyone who has ever worked in an office this question has come up at least once in his or her life. With the paltry vacation time most companies offer employees in the US, many people find themselves “stuck” when it comes to having enough time to take off from work. After all besides the…
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Almost Debt Free: Confronting and Understanding the Purpose of Net Worth
“Homer: He might have all the money in the world, but there’s one thing he can’t buy. Marge: What’s that? Homer: A dinosaur.” -The Simpsons I’ve always found the topic of net worth to be scary and frustrating, mostly because of the “worth” part in the term. It’s frightening to connect my knowledge and handling…
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A Match Made in Heaven
All too often I talk with clients who have the opportunity to participate in their company-sponsored 401(k) and simply don’t. “Even when there’s a match?” I ask. “I can’t afford it,” they claim. “You can’t afford not to,” I retaliate. When a company offers a plan that allows you to contribute to your retirement in…
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Create Your Own Financial Team
You don’t have to be rich to create your own financial team. In fact, doing so is a relatively inexpensive, yet distinct way to becoming rich. In many of the larger cities of this country, we have LGBT Chambers of Commerce ready to serve the needs of business owners and their referrals. Where I’m from,…
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Corporate America Loves Queers!?
In my chosen hometown of Seattle, last year’s Pride was different. It was downtown instead of in the hip queer-ish Capital Hill neighborhood. It was bigger, it was longer and it was decidedly more corporate. I know because I was marching toward the end of it in full high-femme burlesque get-up in a rainbow line…
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Countering the Financial Burden Shift
Maggie Jennings is a registered representative with New England Financial in New York and has been a supporter of Queercents since our launch over a year ago. She writes articles for us from time to time. These are her words… Imagine: You’re within pennies of affording that dream vacation, only to have your car conk…
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Lesbian Couple vs. Countrywide Home Loans
Oh how mainstream media fails us. Here’s a story that you probably haven’t heard. A lesbian couple in New York who filed a federal law suit against Countrywide Home Loans. Committed to their relationship, the couple moved in together. To share responsibility for the mortgage and to protect their property rights, they decided to add…
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The F word
To some saying the F word just causes them to tense up and get defensive, to others it is a welcome word because they have found someone who thinks like they do. However, this F word is neither your 3 letter variety nor your 4 letter expletive either, it is 6 letters long and it…
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Brazen Careerist Lesson #3: Thirty is the new twenty
“The best career advice to give to the young is to find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” — Katherine Whitehorn Most of you are reading this post from work… so slackers listen up. Maybe you’re surfing the net because it’s Monday morning and you’re bored.…
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