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WWYD: Hand Out Money on the Street?
This has always been a really tough one for me: I’m walking down the street, minding my own business, and someone (usually looking really roughed up) asks for money. It’s a conundrum for me: clearly, lack of money is a serious problem for this individual, and I can spare a few bucks. On the other…
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Sleeping With Money: Like it Or Not the In-Laws Come Too
In the Sleeping with Money series we talk about all the lessons we’ve learned from our relationships. Well, sometimes our lessons come once removed. In my previous post on this topic I talked about the rose colored glasses that come at the start of a relationship. While you can eventually iron things out within your…
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Social Security and the Transgender Community
“The Social Security program… represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.” — Jimmy Carter On Monday, I wrote a post about how gay and lesbian families are denied the same social security…
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101 Ways to Save a Buck (or Two or More)
I got an email the other day from Rich over at CareOne letting me know of a recent article they posted called “101 Ways to Save One Dollar a Week”. Now I don’t have any personal experience with CareOne so I can’t comment either way on their services, but I thought the article and topic…
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Real Estate is a Real Asset
“Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly… the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.” — Noel Whittaker Last weekend, I interviewed Susan Wagner for the straight version of the Ten Money Questions series that I run over at BlogHer. As a contributing editor for Fashion & Shopping, she said something profound that…
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The Money Value of Yoga: Are Classes Worth the Cost?
My previous yoga article was essentially a primer for this, oh… let’s light-heartedly call it an embedded journalism piece. What I really want to uncover is the real value of yoga. At the time I wrote, Ironing is the New Yoga, Sort of, I was enrolled in a Yoga 101 workshop that was to commence…
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Atheism and the Eternity of Money
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” — Frank Lloyd Wright At church on Sunday, an atheist stood up and talked about what our community (not the LGBT community but the Unitarian community) meant to him. They call this section of the service the pulpit editorial. I love a church that grants an…
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Spendthrift nation: drowning in debt
For the past two years, Americans have been very naughty. After many years of saving around 2% of our disposable personal income, we have now become a nation who, collectively, spend more than we earn. This doesn’t mean we don’t have any savings. We can have plenty of savings, and still spend more than we…
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Money Mondays: Investments, Retirement & Estate Planning — Part 2
Most of us fall into one of three belief categories about retirement planning. The first, as if retirement were a magical time with no work, no worries, and no problems. The second, a time of life confined to budgets, limited income and medical bills. Or the third group, those of us in the middle, trying…
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