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Your Right Hand Holds a Credit Card
“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.” — Eric Hoffer Last month I ripped out an advertisement that was promoting the Diamond Right Hand Ring. I later learned that the campaign has been running for a couple of years, but it took Valentine’s Day for me to finally…
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Who’s Afraid of Retirement Planning? (I am!)
Penelope Wang, you’re breaking my heart. Ms. Wang is a senior writer over at Money Magazine, and in the March 2007 issue her article “Retirement: Not So Far Out Anymore” really startled me. It’s not like I’m clueless. Around the first quarter of every year, after I check my credit records and file for taxes,…
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Money Mondays: Self-preparing Your Taxes
Today’s installment of Money Mondays focuses on self-preparing your taxes. Many of us prefer to complete and file our taxes ourselves. While it can be risky (errors can lead to penalties and late fees) the benefits of self-preparing can be great. You will definitely become more familiar with your finances and may even save money…
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Suze Orman: Coming Out Recap
“Yep, I’m gay!” — Ellen DeGeneres Queercents gave a shout out to Suze Orman this week. In case you missed it, catch the four posts below on the news that she’s here, she’s queer and probably not using coupons! Suze Orman: for the Young, Fabulous and Gay! by Nina Suze Orman: Financial Hero Comes Out…
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Paycheck and Emergency Fund Calculators
It’s that time of year where the early-birds amongst us are doing our taxes. Coinciding with that (for many people) is the year-end performance appraisal process at the day job which often results in a lump sum bonus and/or a base pay increase. Rich gave us his take on “Tax Refunds and Other Lump Sums”…
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Ten Money Questions for Joe Lupo
As the co-founder of Visual Therapy, Joe Lupo dishes out advice on fashion and style. He’s been on Oprah, quoted in all the major fashion and lifestyle publications, and Out Traveler dubbed him the gay shopping guru! Since clothes and accessories cost money, I asked Joe to get personal about shopping, consumerism, his famous “cost…
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Sleeping with Money: Lessons Not Learned from Sex and the City
The most popular description of the HBO show Sex and the City that’s given on Urbandictionary.com is the most accurate in my opinion: “A now retired HBO series in syndication that chronicles the life of four single heterosexual women living in New York City who behave like stereotypical single gay men living in New York…
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Unused Gift Cards from the Holidays?
“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.” — Max Beerbohm I love gift cards. I like getting them and the ease of giving them. My family depends on gift cards during the holidays and I’m often on the receiving end of the bookstore…
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WWYD: Leisure Without Spending Money
How many leisurely things can you do without spending money? As a bored suburban kid, I spent a lot of time at malls (big ones and strip ones), either by myself or with other careless spenders, like friends and family. I’d use money I never earned to spend on crap- stuff like junk food, movies…
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Women, Wealth and Power
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” — Gloria Steinem Prior to all the fuss about Helen Mirren’s performance in The Queen, she played Elizabeth I in a movie on HBO that portrayed her as an aging queen who falls for a much younger man. Newsweek…
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