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Ten Money Questions for Gay Millionaires Club Founder
Can you fall in love with a rich person just as easily as a poor one? It was this question that led me to Jill Kimmel-Hankoff several months ago when I posted about her Gay Millionaires Club. Jill is the Founder & COO and she has some thought provoking things to say about money, relationships…
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Sleeping With Money: Hot Treehugger, Debt-Free
Continuing our new series “Sleeping With Money” about money lessons learned in relationships, my story today is about one of the hottest guys I ever met, an honest-to-god park ranger in San Francisco. (This picture is of a hot model, not the guy I’m talking about.) We met through a kind of club that a…
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TaxCut and TurboTax Duke It Out
If you’ve been following along Allison’s Tax Series, you may have decided that doing your own taxes is right for you. For many people that means buying a personal tax software to guide you through the maze. As someone who has used TurboTax in the past and is now using it again this year, I…
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Bad Bosses: Coping (and Ranting)
A recent survey by Robert Half International and CareerBuilder.com suggests most of America is happy with their boss. I was astounded. Were they asking monks? The survey also suggests that employees aren’t as satisfied with top executives, however. Now that makes a bit more sense, but not entirely. Here’s my bias. I’m not the biggest…
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Can Zillow Make Me Move?
“To stand still is to lose, to move is to gain, to change is to grow.” — Gene E. Megiveron Jeanine has been a faithful Zillow user since it launched over a year ago. Every couple of months she checks our Zestimate (their take on our home market value) and is quick to report its…
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Gay Spirituality & Intimacy: Priceless
The fact is, many spiritual traditions aren’t welcoming of the LGBTQ community. So it is refreshing, and worth talking about, when they are. Even better when they are specifically about us! While some people find that regular attendance at a church, temple, meditation center and/or mosque suits them, another option is to look into spiritual…
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WWYD: The Price of a Mistreated Life
In this week’s What Would You Do series, we ask how you would compensate a person for a life incorrectly spent in prison. Recently on NPR, Kathy Lohr interviewed two men who had been wrongly imprisoned for much of their adult lives. She writes, “Calvin Johnson was falsely convicted of rape and received a life…
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Ways to Grow Income
This week I’m going to share my queer thoughts on a couple of web articles that popped up on Yahoo! The first installment will be about Five Ways to Grow Your Income by 20 Percent by David Bach. Mr. Bach wrote the book Start Late, Finish Rich which I bought before becoming a born again…
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Overcoming Emotional Spending
Most of the time we don’t buy things just to have “stuff”. We buy because of how it makes us feel. For some people it is the “stuff” that they have that gives them that adrenaline rush, for others it is the actual act of shopping that does it. If you find yourself in money…
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GayRealEstate.com – Part 3
GayRealEstate.com is the largest company in the nation representing the rights of queer home buyers and sellers. Queercents asked Jeff Hammerberg, the founder of GayRealEstate.com to write a series of articles for the gay and lesbian community. Here is Part 3: Condo Ownership: An increasingly good investment if you buy smart. For decades — if…
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