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Investing 101: Rich’s Six-Part Series
“When the student is ready, the master appears.” — Buddhist Proverb In case you missed any of the Investing 101 series by Rich, I wanted to list the links below for easy reference and reading: Investing 101: Living Below Your Means Investing 101: Keeping Your Costs Low Investing 101: Minimizing Risk Maximizing Returns Investing 101:…
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Ten Money Questions for Mark Brand
I first came across Mark Brand in the pages of PINK Magazine and immediately knew that I would like the guy. Mark is cool, confident and yet approachable. How often do you find those three qualities in the world of design? For 20 years, Mark has directed the award-winning studio of Mark Brand Architecture by…
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Tax Forms Missing Lines for Important Deductions
Are you getting a jumpstart on your 2006 tax return? Are you self-preparing your taxes? If so, beware! The IRS has mailed packets of tax forms with lines missing on which to claim important deductions. The lines are for claiming deductions for state and local sales tax, higher education tuition and fees, and educator expenses.
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Peer Pressure Spending in the Twenty-Something Crowd (Part 1 of a 2 Part Series)
I can be like a vulture when a taboo topic comes up. Nina’s Ten Questions for Lane Hudson unearthed a taboo topic that I’d like to shine under a spotlight, call a large crowd over, and examine until the dead horse wakes up and asks, “Can you please stop?” Lane brilliantly summed up an issue…
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The Working Poor and Living on Minimum Wage
“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.” — David Shipler Awhile back I wrote about the workers of Netflix and their $9.00 per hour jobs. Most of the reader comments concluded that it was fair pay for unskilled work happening in these Netflix hubs. However, the point of that post really was to…
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Investing 101: The Tax Man Cometh
This is the sixth and final article in the Queercents Investing 101 series. Feel free to browse previous articles in the series. In the fifth article of this series, we discussed how to turn $10,000 plus $100 a month into $396,368 over 40 years, even after inflation. But that was before we considered the effect…
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WWYD: Work Late or Keep Your Date?
Today’s “What Will You Do” isn’t a direct money question, but money and fear is often the excuse people use for not doing what they commit to and not doing what they really want to do. So, let me set the stage… You committed to go out to dinner with your long time partner (or…
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Helena, The L Word, and The M Word
“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.” — Sophie Tucker Jeanine and I finally caught the replay last night of The L Word’s premiere of Season 4. In case you missed it, AfterEllen.com provides a preview of the entire season along with weekly recaps. Helena, our favorite trust fund darling, experiences money…
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Investing 101: Inflation and Time
The fourth article in this Investing 101 series for beginners talked about how to buy and hold; how to diversify; and how to think globally. If we do this, and keep costs low, we will earn more money, and we will keep more of it than the average investor. This article discusses another important way…
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How $0.25 Leaves Lesbian Households Millions Short
I ran across this great article “Lesbian Economics” today at the LesbianFamily.org blog. Suffice it to say women are still earning less than our male counterparts with the current figure being 74.7 cents on their dollar. Doesn’t sound like much until you do the math as Liza did in the article. Hold your hats my…
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