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Beyond the Green Corporation
The cover article of BusinessWeek for January 29 (“Beyond the Green Corporation“) argues that many leading companies now believe they will make more money by helping communities and protecting the environment. Is this out of the goodness of their hearts? Heck no. But there is a growing awareness that people vote with their dollars, and…
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How Much Can I Save On My Credit Card Debt?
We here at Queercents are always preaching the golden rule of not carrying any debt. If you’re already in debt and just getting on the path to free yourself from the bondage of credit cards, it can be a big job. I know I’ve helped friends and coaching clients tackle credit card debt well into…
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Ten Money Questions for Hilary Rosen
Hilary Rosen is a founding partner and President of OurChart.com. If you’re a fan of The L Word (Showtime’s prime time lesbian drama) then you already understand the concept behind Alice’s chart and the connections women make. If not, then hurry and click over to OurChart.com. The Chart (a fabulous feature launching next month) will…
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Free Expense Tracker: A Simple Excel Spreadsheet May Be All You Need
One of my numerous resolutions this year is to keep track of how I spend my money. However, in keeping this resolution, I didn’t want to deal with the hassle and cost for software like Quicken or MS-Money. After all, I didn’t want my expense tracker to be another expense. Also, I just wanted to…
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WWYD: Profiting From What We Morally Don’t Approve
This week’s question in our What Would You Do series borrows a dilemma from the rich. Case in point: Democracy Now recently reported, “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation makes millions of dollars each year from companies blamed for many of the same social and health problems the Foundation seeks to address.” To bring the…
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Peer Pressure Spending in the Twenty-Something Crowd: Save Money and Keep Your Social Life (Part 2 of a 2 Part Series)
I love my friends! I am incredibly lucky to have such a supportive group of people in my life. Even though a bunch of them aren’t queer, they have become loyal readers of Queercents, and they even provided me some touching responses to Part 1 of Peer Pressure Spending in the Twenty-Something Crowd: Friend 1:…
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The High Cost of Pet Care
Pets enrich our lives in so many ways. I know my two cats are part of the family. I’ve always considered our furry and feathered friends to be simply little people. So when I am faced with an expensive trip to the vet I border on insane when some uncaring colleague who “doesn’t get it”…
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Women Paying Cash to Hide Self Indulgences
“There’s nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.” — Robert Prechter, Jr. Ladies, ladies, ladies… the funny things you do. Here’s an interesting article that appeared in The New York Times on Sunday. It’s about women feeling the need to use cash as a way to hide from their husbands how much…
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Leasing vs. Buying: The Car Debate Continues
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” — Mahatma Gandhi Over the past few weeks, the alarm on my Volvo sounded three times without any apparent reason. I was convinced that we were having mild tremors (of the earthquake variety) and the vibration was activating my car alarm. The third time it did…
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Warm and Fuzzy Being Poor
I was looking forward to this year’s season of the Lword as they were going to, however small, take one of the characters, Helena, down the road from uber-rich to cut off from Mom’s money and made to deal with it. This first episode was funny as Helena starts down the road that charts an…
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