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Self-Storage: Spending Money to Store Our Stuff
“You can’t take it with you.” — Proverb In his Slate article entitled Self-Storage Nation, Tom Vanderbilt writes, “You can’t take it with you but you can certainly find a place to stash it away.” So what compels people to spend money on storing their idle belongings? I’ve done this only once in my lifetime……
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IRS Extends Filing Deadline to April 17th!!!
It’s not even the end of January and my schedule is jam packed. As a tax preparer I frequently find myself wishing for “one more day” this time of the year. One more day to complete the big project, one more day to relax and rejuvenate, one more day to…..oh the list goes on. I…
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Ten Money Questions for Jamison Green
Queercents strives to represent diversity in the LGBT community and in my opinion the trans voice and view is one where we have come up short. So when I asked Helen Boyd if she could introduce me to a few thought leaders in the trans community, she put me in touch with Jamison Green. I…
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Make Moving Cheaper by Avoiding Moving Pitfalls
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” Well folks, I gathered lots of “experience” in one area of my finances this past month: moving expenses. Like many other twenty-somethings, Zac and I have moved often. We’ve gotten to the point where we feel comfortable enough to skip moving guides…
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Lose Weight; Fatten Your Wallet– Is That Really True?
I recently found the article “Losing Weight Will Fatten Your Wallet” over at SmartMoney.com and of course was instantly intrigued by the headline. As someone who is pretty health conscious, I am always eager to know how I can save some money. While the tips in here are sound that you can save hundreds of…
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WWYD: Withholding can be enabling
A few weeks back, in a previous column in the What Would You Do Series, I wrote that my Dad had asked for a $3,000 loan in order to replace his aging means of transport. A few people commented that I should just go ahead and give him the money (not a loan), despite the…
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The Millionaire (is not living) Next Door
“Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.” — Erma Bombeck Last week, I mentioned how some women use cash as a way to hide (from their partners) how much they spend on personal indulgences. Scott Medintz at CNNMoney.com reported on a survey that…
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Yahoo Personal Finance – New Site
Recently, I was tipped off to the launch of Yahoo’s new Personal Finance site via an article at lifehacker. There’s a nice little review of it in their article so I took a surf over to check it out for myself. Yahoo Personal Finance is loaded with the usual array of articles, tools, calculators, and…
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Can Shampoo Save You Money?
“He who does not economize will have to agonize.” — Confucius There’s a side of me that tries to be frugal. There’s another part that is just plain cheap. My shampoo buying habits hover in the cheap category. I’ve used Pantene (the drugstore brand of shampoo and conditioner) for close to 15 years. Why? I…
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Get Hitched and Get Out of Debt?
After Zac, the other great love of my life is the New York Times. Like Zac, the New York Times just gets me, and tells me everything I want to know. A sassy little article popped up earlier this week that took a playful stab at personal finance planners, gurus and the oblivious. “The Bride…
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