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Budgeting: Spending Money with Intention
“A small leak can sink a great ship.” — Benjamin Franklin Budgeting… that’s a topic that can be a conversation buzz kill at a cocktail party. So while it’s not the most riveting subject matter, it’s fundamental to establishing a good financial plan and worth giving it some thought. In this week’s budgeting column at…
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WWYD: Romantic Ideas for a Two-Income Household
This week’s WWYD is a short one, but a goodie. I’m hoping we can generate ideas that are helpful for everyone. There are days my job is so stressful, I’m completely depleted by the time I get home. Some days at work are so dull that my brain is a bowl of porridge by 5:00…
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Almost Debt Free: Organize Finances with Goals and Simple, Repeatable Systems
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”- Jack Kerouac So now you know the difference between good debt and bad debt, and you’d like to get rid of the bad debt. But if you got into debt in the first place, how are…
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In Need of Tissues
As my second set of friends embark on a pregnancy by a sperm donor, I read an ad in the paper offering $100 for the blood plasma of allergy sufferers. It’s not so much about the money for me, as is the idea that my donation could help medical science help people like me. (I…
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Devaluing Money
Wikipedia defines devaluation as “an official lowering of the value of a country’s currency within a fixed exchange rate system.” If you pay attention to the US mint, you’ll notice some slight changes. These changes hint at devaluing our money. The US Dollar Coin Act of 1997 mandates the phasing out the dollar bill. To…
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Introduction to Queercents
If this is your first visit to Queercents, then read on for a few highlights about the site. Queercents is a syndicate of LGBT personal finance writers posting daily tips and anecdotes about spending, saving, earning, investing and all things financial. Money spends the same whether it is carried in a purse or a wallet.…
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God Made Me Buy It: The Virtue of Consumption
“We are just statistics, born to consume resources.” — Horace Here’s one for the consumer file as we all head off to work on Monday morning in our effort to buy and be able to afford more stuff… Have you noticed a lot of things being marketed as “Christian” in the last few years? Case…
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Ten Money Questions for Ben Finzel and Steve Kauffman
Ben Finzel and Steve Kauffman are senior executives at Fleishman-Hillard International Communications and the force behind FH Out Front, the firm’s global gay and lesbian communications practice. They “believe outreach by businesses and organizations to the LGBT community is one of the most powerful forces for change in modern society.” Typically, in order to produce…
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Disproportionately High Number of LGBT Youths In Homeless Population
A recent New York Times article written by Ian Urbina called, Gay Youths Find Place to Call Home in Specialty Shelters, hits close to home for me, and perhaps for some Queercents readers. Urbina cites recent surveys explaining “that while gay men and lesbians make up 3 percent to 5 percent of the general population,…
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Negotiating Finances While Still Living at Home
I moved out of my parents’ house a couple weeks after I turned 18. For various reasons, the largest being financial, I scurried back home with my metaphorical tail between my legs a few months after that. This was one of those “I told you so” moments my parents will look fondly upon ten years…
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