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Career & Money – Part 7: Starting Your Own Business
In the last few articles in this series I focused on finding and landing the job. This assumes that after taking a deep look at your values that working for someone else is what you want. For some people, the only way to career success and happiness is being their own boss. Whether you call…
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Sleeping with Money: Financial Expectations
“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.” — Peter McWilliams This week’s Sleeping with Money lesson is about establishing boundaries. I met Partner #2 right after my brief stint with Robin. It was a difficult time…
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Creative Online Family (or Personal) Budgeting Tool
One of the biggest challenges to designing a well-balanced and flexible budget are daily expenses. They cannot easily be pre-determine, meaning it is hard to plan for them, and even harder to limit. One method to control daily expenses is to allocate a certain amount of spending cash each month. But, who wants to carry…
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Money and Mates: Compatibility Factor
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Finding a balance between money styles can be harder than negotiating other things in a relationship. After spending two years writing about money, I’ve found it to be one of the more fascinating dynamics…
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WWYD: Ask for Help or Screw the Scanner?
I don’t know about you but this new trend toward self checkout in stores has hit on my last nerve. While I am all for being self sufficient when I go somewhere to buy stuff and am spending money, I don’t want to have to be the employee too. That is why you hire checkout…
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Queercents introduces Adam Nelson
We have a new contributing writer at Queercents! Adam Nelson joins us from Madison, Wisconsin where he’ll graduate from the University of Wisconsin with a law degree in 2008. I’m very excited to finally have someone “represent” from the Midwest since the rest of us are coastal. In addition to attending law school, Adam recently…
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Tahiti Is Possible
My mind has been focused on one thing in the last two weeks- Tahiti. Now, I am not the type of girl to spend my life dreaming of things I can’t have. The difference here is that I actually believe that I can have this trip; so long as I follow my savings plan for…
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Almost Debt Free: Good Debt vs. Bad Debt
“When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.” -Anton Chekhov Almost Debt Free is a bit of a misnomer for this new series that I will publish each Tuesday into the summer. I’m actually looking forward to…
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Postage Rate Increase
In the course of my business, I find myself using the United States Postal Service frequently and established an account with Stamps.com. They offer the convenience of printing postage (including special services like certified return receipts) from your computer. I rarely have to wait in line at my local post office and that’s worth the…
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Buying Experiences Rather Than Things
“Maybe all we can hope to do is end with the right regrets.” — Arthur Miller Every several months, my partner, Jeanine, pulls out a world map and after unfolding it bemoans all the places she has never been. I try to take the-glass-is-half-full approach and point to the many locations that we have already…
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