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Money & Mates: Q&A with Cara and Nikki
This week, Queercents begins a series called Money & Mates. Our first couple to be profiled is Nikki and Cara. They live in Eastern Tennessee with their children and four dogs. How long have you been together? A little over three years How did money first come up in your relationship? Cara: “It came up…
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Gay Couples Talk Money: Better Than Sex Talk
“Money isn’t a romantic subject.” — Sheryl Garrett The experts all agree that financial problems are often cited as a major cause of divorce. Money does matter in a long-term relationship. I remember initiating the serious “money” conversation with Jeanine just after a few months of dating. At this point, I was falling for her…
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Coming Out, Work, and My Simple Life
A woman works with her coworkers; eats lunch with them and may even have a couple of drinks after work. She doesn’t say anything about being gay, but then, she also doesn’t say anything about being straight either. One day, some one sees her at a pride festival and word gets around that she is…
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Of Safety and Expense
This next week surfgirl and I will be flying to Augusta, GA to check the city out, my possible job transfer location, enjoying the ocean and hanging out with her brother and his partner. We were looking at apartments and houses for rent if we were to move down there. Currently we rent a 1…
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The Equity Card – Beware of Hot Offers!
“There’s always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain’t happy.” — Author Unknown I’ve written a few posts on the housing ATM. You can read them here, here and here if you’re interested. However, the above lacks the dose of reality that MP Dunleavey achieved with her column in The New…
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Living Together: LGBT Advice
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” — Marcus Aelius Aurelius The phone rang yesterday and it was my ex-girlfriend wishing me a Happy Birthday. We’ve had our ups and downs over the years with trying to be friends. Most lesbians are able to be friends with their exes… I guess it’s…
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Garbage Dresser Refinishing
The apartment complex that surfgirl and I live in has dumpsters that rival almost any college dumpster. You can find some pretty interesting things. We’ve been needing a dresser for sometime, but it hasn’t been a priority. When surfgirl saw this one, we decided to pick it up (along with 17 pennies that dropped out)…
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Money Blogger Podcast Interview
Despite loving the overall idea of podcasts and the subscription model potential they bring to the party, I admit to being slow in partaking of the bounty. I’ve just never been a huge “talk radio” fan and sometimes it’s fainful to admit to my friends that I actually do not listen to NPR. However, I…
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Money is the Yardstick: A Lesbian Perspective
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and just not think about your age.” — Lucille Ball I remember hearing Oprah say a long time ago that money is relative. I found the Newsweek article where she talks about “How I Got There” in terms of dollars and success. She says,…
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Wives with Money: A Lesson From Danny Moder
“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.” — Cesare Pavese On Friday, we saw Friends with Money and it contained plenty of material for a week full of financial posts. In case you don’t read Entertainment Weekly or watch television, Friends…
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