Category: Hints
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How Not to Waste Money on Bodybuilding Supplements
The marketing of bodybuilding supplements is so effective that many people mistakenly believe they can be used for all types of workout programs. The vast amount of conflicting information and overlapping terminology in health literature doesn’t help this matter either. Much like finding the right-fitting financial goals, proper assessment and doing your homework can prevent…
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Blog Action Day: Finance, The Environment, Queercents, and Kiplinger’s
What do all of the above have in common? October! As part of my contribution to Blog Action Day I’m taking a moment to call our reader’s attention to this month’s issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. The cover story suggests “Green is the next big thing.” I took the How Green Are You Quiz.…
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How to Make a Free To-Do List
I was standing in line at Target recently and while waiting for the lady ahead of me to pay for the 10 packs of bottled water, my eyes dropped down to the right side, to the things hanging in the “impulse buying” area. There was a nicely packaged batch of papers that had “To Do”…
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Your Money and Tattoos: Think Before You Ink
I’m at a coffee shop reading through the September issue of Money magazine. A quote from Coco Chanel jumps at me from the page: ‘œFashion is made to become unfashionable.’ I look up and see more than half of the patrons have some sort of tattoo — not just some little emblem, I’m talking about…
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Practical Uses for Cell Phones With Camera Features
How many people actually use all the features on their cell phone? Cell phones now have video and picture recording, texting, internet, games, music, ring tones, wallpapers, navigation, news feeds, television channels and then there’s the iPhone which I’m tired of hearing about. Yes, it’s slick; it does a lot; I’m sure it will end…
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Unexpected expenses typically $2000 annually
‘œSave it for a rainy day’ ‘“ Proverb According to a study released by the Consumer Federation of America, the typical person has around $2,000 of unexpected expenses in an average year. Here’s more: ‘œThe ability of Americans to cover unexpected expenses, such as a car repair or emergency dental visit, greatly depends on their…
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Many Uses for Towels
It can be embarrassing to put out threadbare towels for guests, but your rag box will only hold so much. So what do you do with the other towels? Old towels make good insulation around hot pots for the potluck at school, work or church Cut off the fraying of threadbare area and make smaller…
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Queersmarts about RSS
Jerame Davis who writes the Gay Geeks column at The Bilerico Project provides the skinny on RSS Feeds. He explains why all the hype around RSS: RSS helps keep you up to date with more of your favorite websites. It’s much faster to load than a full web page with pictures, movies, etc. You get…
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Why Theater Tickets Are Expensive
I love theater. Once you’re done gasping from the shock that yet another gay man loves Broadway, let me tell you why tickets are so expensive. In all honesty, I’m not even sure I found the definitive answer. Research for this post felt more like I was digging for hidden information that could put the…
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Three Ideas For An Inexpensive Business Gathering
Wednesday afternoon was the celebration marking this month as the grand opening of Treading Together LLC a speaker bureau, consulting, and management services firm. There were door prizes, interesting conversation, tasty treats, and everything else you might expect for such an occasion. I shared the experience with a fellow entrepreneur Kate Liu, meeting planner of…
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