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Queerspawn: One Blogger’s Reflections
“The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the family.” — Pat Robertson James from Dual Income No Kids is a straight, married man that writes with his wife, Miel. When we launched Queercents, they were one of the first personal finance…
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How to Retire Rich on a Teacher’s Salary
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward Yesterday, the LA Times printed a story about an ex-teacher that left her fortune to her school district. They write, “A woman (in Davison, Michigan) who spent 29 years as a teacher and counselor at…
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Ten Money Questions for Rob Delamater
Rob Delamater is the founder of Lost Art Salon in San Francisco. Lost Art Salon is an eclectic collection of original period paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics with a particular emphasis on newly-discovered artists from the Early and Mid 20th Century. Rob Delamater and his business partner, Gaetan Caron, search out one-of-a-kind pieces that exhibit…
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Netflix and a Living Wage
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt As a Netflix subscriber, it was with great interest that I read the article by Susan Sheehan in The New Yorker about Netflix as a delivery system. Ever…
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The Best of Microfinancing
Some of you may have heard about Prosper.com, an online site that people can sign up, so that you can lend or borrow money from your peers to pay off cars, debts and start businesses. If you are a lender you can make money with the interest rate on what you have loaned. Along that…
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Raptured from Credit Card Debt
“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” — Luke 21:36 On Saturday, there was an article in the LA Times by Christopher Goffard called Father, Son and Holy Rift. It talks about…
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Festival of Frugality #38
Welcome to this week’s Festival of Frugality. We’re calling it… Queer Eye for the Frugal Guy by offering readers a few hip tips that will make you sound smart, look great, and live fab. That’s fab as in f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s frugality! Hip “Fashion” Tips: Bling on a Shoestring Jewelry gives us New Clothes for $5 or…
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Two Brains are better for Saving Money
Surfgirl and I are bringing her sister and niece to visit us for a week and while they are with us we plan on doing quite a few things, mostly in the mountains. So we tried to decide how we were going to get around, immediately, we figured we would rent an SUV to drive…
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National Museum Day
Mark your calendar for a freebie that’s sure to please! Invite some friends, take a date, or go it alone. Head to a museum near you on September 30th, 2006 for National Museum Day! The Smithsonian Institute traditionally opens its doors to the public, free of charge one day a year. For those of us…
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Ten Money Questions for Amy Guth
Amy Guth just released her debut novel called Three Fallen Women. It has been described as “violent and shimmering… a story of three women caught in the vortex of breaking down.” I got the crazy idea to ask her a few questions about money with regards to her colorful characters and herself. Amy is a…
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