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Dating on a Budget: The Cheapest Date Ever-You!
There is this huge misconception that you have to have another person in order to go on dates. This is simply not true. How many times have you gone out on a date and been sorely disappointed with the other party? How many times have you gone out with someone who irritated you to no…
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Frugal Thoughts from February
February is over and I’m ready to go over what little lessons I have learned this last month. It has been quite a month, most recently is that I have been fighting with my cold. 1. I love “taste guarantees” on packaging – I’ve gotten a free can of Progresso soup (the split pea wasn’t…
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The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Last week, Jeanine and I became two of the nearly 9.5 million people that have viewed Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture on YouTube. Pausch was the Carnegie Mellon professor that lost his battle to pancreatic cancer back in July 2008. Several months before he stepped in front of an audience of 400 people to deliver a…
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Wedding on a Budget: Picking Your Venue and Inviting Your Guests
Welcome to part three of our Wedding on a Budget series. Last week we talked about the decision to hire a wedding planner. This week we’ll talk about picking a location for your event and saving money on the invitations. Picking a location for your commitment ceremony or wedding can be a lot of fun.…
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Queercents Weekly Roundup: Bye Bye Snow!
Sometimes the littlest things can mean big improvements in our outlook on life. The other morning when I had a few free minutes, I sewed together a small red and silver which I stuffed with balsam fir sawdust. Now, as I type, I’m enjoying the delightful woody sent all because I had some scrap materials…
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Save Money When You File Your Taxes
Most of our loyal Queercents readers have probably already filed their taxes and re-invested their tax return into something boring (like student loan payments or something else responsible). But, just in case you haven’t already filed you’re taxes, here’s a little money saving help from Coupon Chief, a site that collects and verifies online discount…
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Still playing it Straight for Pay?
I’ve been out since I was 17 years old and at this stage in my life, 25+ years later, I’m learning that people still haven’t changed all that much in general. Although it’s 2009 and we have made a huge amount of progress in gay rights, it’s interesting that people still focus on who…
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Money: Yours, Mine and Ours
Calling all couples! If you’ve been meaning to get started on that all important paperwork to protect each other and your assets, now is as good a time as any. Most of you probably know that as unmarried couples we miss out on all of the federal rights granted het folks and most of the…
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“Have You Ditched the Landline?” and Other Pressing Money-Saving Questions
Still searching for ways to save money, I did a little assessment of my expenditures. I learned I could only take frugal so far. How about you? Have you ditched the landline? My potential yearly savings – $360 I can’t let it go yet. It costs me $30 a month. That’s…
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Countertop Chaos ‘“ Learning from our Mistakes
What should have been the simplest part of the whole renovation process turned out to be the most trying. Here are the lessons we have learned this week, and not without some suffering: 1. Get your story straight impeccably gay. 2. Watch them like a hawk – or, as Toshi likes to say, be a…
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