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Tax Credits for Hybrid Cars
Are gas prices dropping? When will they rise? There is conflicting information about what actually drives the cost of our fuel. CNN reports gas prices may be as low as $2.00 by Thanksgiving. While we speculate about the future cost of our fuel, there is incentive to choose alternatives. A couple years ago, my partner…
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Money and Mates: Q&A with Pam & Kate
This week, Queercents interviews Pam and Kate in North Carolina. They love to dress up, eat out and never fight about finances. Pam is the publisher of Pam’s House Blend and because they’re frugal, money flows like an endless pot of coffee.
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The Power of Purchases
Living below your means is about being aware of what you spend your money on as well as why you spend your money. You may constantly run to the fast food joint, and this adds up to 2-300 a month you spend on fast food. You want to cut back but you don’t know why…
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Funding Workhorse
Making this play about work, about finances, about the sociopolitical issues implicated therewithin, has taken all my energy and heart this last year. Workhorse is more than a full time job: but like most artists, it is a job unpaid. And like the homeless man on the corner of Haight and Masonic singing “there go…
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Vino Investing: Buy What You Like to Drink
“By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.” — Thomas Jefferson A few weeks ago, Jeanine and I visited her friend that lives in Northern California. The friend’s partner is a small business…
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Who Pays for Sex Reassignment Surgery?
“They don’t ‘cut it off!’ It just becomes an innie instead of an outtie.” – Felicity Huffman as Bree Osbourne in Transamerica Denise Lavoie, an Associated Press Writer in Boston reported on the case of a Transgender Inmate Seeking a Sex Change. She writes, “Wearing lipstick, a scooped-neck sweater and nearly waist-length hair, the witness…
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12 Tips to Reduce Grocery Costs
One of the areas I see people looking to save money is with their grocery bill. I think it is because we go shopping once a month and see a huge bill or we go every week or so and seem to spend more than we think we should for the length of time the…
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Mundane/Necessary Topic of Life Insurance
“The great enemy of the truth is not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy If you weren’t interested in personal finances, then you probably wouldn’t stop by Queercents. So when I talk about plan, plan, plan… I’m preaching to the choir.…
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Are Gas Prices Eating Up Your Dining Out Budget?
“Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.” — Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Is anyone eating out less? We typically only eat out on the weekends, but I think that’s unusual for many people. We don’t necessary eat in for budget reasons but rather because we genuinely enjoy cooking. After work, it’s…
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Maintaining a Lifestyle of Conformity
“A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.” — H. L. Mencken Jeanine and I rarely sit around and watch TV. Before we lived together, I didn’t even have a television so it might seem strange that we’re willing to pay for…
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