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Mid-Career Sabbatical: Refresh & Redefine
Nina is on vacation this week. Here’s a reprint of one of her favorite posts from Sitting Pretty: “If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.” — Lane Kirkland Last year, one of my dearest friends started planning a career change. He wanted to become…
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The Passion of the Price
If you haven’t heard the news Batwoman will be coming out and having a relationship with Detective Montoya in the DC weekly comic book “52” where no headlining heroes exist (like Superman, Batman, etc) This isn’t the first time gay issues have taken a headline in the newspaper. A few years Green Lantern comics dealt…
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Thrifty Movie Rentals
“All the world’s a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty.” – William Henry Ireland The other night, Jeanine and I enjoyed one of our rentals from Netflix. We’re on the 2 DVDs at-a-time package (limit 4 per month), which costs us $11.99/month. When signing up, I considered…
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Free Radio Online
I love free stuff and I think most people like a free item now and then as well. Being that I am on a computer 10-12 hours a day I have the a lot of time to keep myself busy. When I am at work, I plug in and get to work. Here are a…
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Consumption: Evils of Bulk Buying
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” — Anthelme Brillat-Savarin It is easy to draw a parallel with personal finances and eating. I write enough about this correlation that readers and fellow bloggers often point me to sites or articles that do the same. Communicatrix sent me this one…
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Sharing Love and Money
I have read recently of couple’s who will keep a little side money or separate account. I realize that this may work for some people, however, I find it would complicate already sensitive money issues. Perhaps I come from an old school of thought that once two people join together then their independence is gone,…
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Money & Mates: Q&A with Barb
This week, Queercents interviews Barb. Barb is single at the moment but has a wealth of experience when it comes to money and relationships. Here’s her story. How long have you been together? I am currently single, however, I’ve had two long-term partnerships. The first was when I was in my 20’s and lasted 7…
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Splurging for Sanity
I don’t have much experience with having a cleaning service. About 10 years ago, when I was single, lived alone and regularly worked about 50 hours a week I hired an aquaintance who was using housecleaning to make ends meet after quitting her corporate job. This arrangement worked out great for both of us and…
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