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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Pumpkin Party
Fall weather is finally here, and you know that Halloween is right around the corner when you start seeing pumpkin stands on every corner. My partner and I have fun each year searching for the perfect pumpkin. We had a fabulous time tromping through our local pumpkin patch, and this year we’ve got three giant…
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Freelancing Tips: Ask Questions
Like all jobs, freelancing has its pluses and minuses. The biggest advantage about working for yourself is that you set the pace, and you get to determine which jobs you will accept. The biggest downside, however, is that when something goes wrong, you only have yourself to blame. One of the biggest challenges for new…
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iPad Contests That You Can Actually Win
Winning a contest for an iPad sounds like a dream come true to many people, as iPads are a great, cutting-edge technology — however, they are very expensive, as is most new technology. The solution, then, is to try to win a contest. These contests will give away free iPads, as they can afford to…
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Your Ideas to Dress Up for Halloween Cheap?
What will you be this Halloween? Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert, Obama? We see lots of people want to be Snooki from Jersey Shore or the Sitation on some sites. Jersey Shore might be kind of expensive though with the fake tanning and all. Then there is the Seven Deadly Sins, a Peacock from the Katy…
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Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Retirement
I’ll cut straight to the chase’“if you aren’t saving for retirement, you are taking money out of your future pocket and wasting it. If you’ve been following the blog, you know that I posted earlier about JJ, the 30-year-old Manhattanite who had no retirement savings. If you saw the video, you’d know that I ripped…
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Financial Makeover: JJ
As part of a new video series, this is Financial Makeover. We’ll be looking at the finances of Queercents readers to figure out what we can do to help! Now, we’re not financial professionals, so consult with one before making major life decisions. But this ought to help quite a bit. Follow the link here…
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Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Clothes
I think that mostly in this series I have been very positive on investing. The idea is that you buy fewer high quality items so that you keep them for longer, and that in turn saves you money in the long run. With clothes, however, forget it. Toss all that out the window and go…
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Guinea Pigs Needed!
I’m starting a web series for this blog, but I need some people to volunteer themselves, or at least their finances. I will be more specific as to what you’re signing up for over email, but for now I need people. Hit me up at clint@queercents.com and we’ll get started! Don’t worry’“this will be as…
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Ten Money Questions for Robert Levithan
1. Your new column, The New 60, on Advocate.com is insightful and very revealing. What prompted you to write it? As I realized that I was approaching 60, I became aware that I was experiencing an entire ‘chapter’ I had neither expected nor one I had been told could be so much fun! 2. I’m…
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