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My Financial Implosion: Diversifying to Avoid Disaster
‘œConcentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.’ ‘“ Andrew Carnegie It’s been almost two months since my wife’s contract suddenly ended, and we made dramatic cuts to our budget. We’ve found that the slow economy is making it harder…
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Cannabusiness: Not Your Average Drug Dealers Anymore
The following article represents the views of the author and is not representative of Queercents, the site owner or its other writers. On a recent trip to Long Beach, I stopped by one of the many medical marijuana dispensaries to find out if the reality of a pot shop lived up to the image I…
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And So It Stands
The CA Supreme Court voted 6-1 to uphold Proposal 8 while maintaining the legality of mine and 18,000 other couples’ marriages. Talk about mixed feelings. This was the only thing I was going to be able to write about today…regardless of the outcome. As I spoke with people at various parties over the long weekend…
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Same-sex matrimony adds bliss to Mass economy: $111 million and counting
Apparently, queers in Massachusetts missed Serena’s Queercents series about how to have a wedding on a budget. A recent survey [The Fiscal Impact of Marriage Equality in Massachusetts] looked at how much money was spent on nuptials by same-sex couples in the commonwealth over the last few years. Nearly half of same-sex married couples in…
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Does This Debt Make Me Look Guilty?
Debt is the little black dress in everybody’s wardrobe. You may not want it, it doesn’t really excite you, but you’re encouraged to have one because you never know when you might need it. Debt usually starts off being called credit, and credit is supposed to be a good thing to have. A British friend…
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Could Marijuana Legalization Balance the Budget?
The following article represents the views of the author and is not representative of Queercents, the site owner or its other writers. Did you hear the story on NPR last week about the marijuana farms that are taking root on public lands? I was floored when I heard that a pot farm was busted in…
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The lose-weight, get-rich, save-the-world machine!
I’m talking about my bicycle. It’s a simple technology that deserves much more attention than it gets in North America. Anywhere else in the world, bicycles are a major form of transportation. Our cities were built at the height of the car manufacturers’ political power, however, and so are car-dependent in many ways. Still, there…
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Is the economy having a different effect on queers?
Last month, Crack Magazine in the UK, included a column by Gareth Longstaff explaining why frugality in the current financial meltdown is a very straight and family bound thing and having a different effect on queers: If we turn on any news channel or open any newspaper we see somewhere this implicit sense of gloom…
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Queercents Weekly Roundup: Congratulations Grads
Happy Saturday everybody! By now most college seniors are graduating so to all of the graduates and soon to be graduates, congratulations! And now, without any further ado, the roundup. I recently recommended this site to a friend who’s looking to lower her cell phone bill. You simply enter your current plan and usage levels…
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How TV Informs My Financial Management Strategy
Two summers ago I gave our household a financial makeover. I spent the entire August long weekend sorting out our various financial papers and bills into piles while watching past episodes of Till Debt Do Us Part on the internet to use the scare tactics of Gail Vaz-Oxlade to whip me into shape. I…
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