Category: Hints
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Financial Calculators That Show How You Blow a Fortune Without Knowing
Before settling down to read this post, please keep any hot beverage away from you that may spill, get some smelling salts, and ask a friend to check in on you. I was in my office at work with the door closed, yet someone next door was still able to hear me yelp, “What the…
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Are You Prepared to Lose Your Job?
How okay would you be financially if you were to lose your job today? That is the poignant question posed by Lifehacker in a recent post. No matter how secure you may think your job is, it could end tomorrow unexpectedly. If it does, are you prepared for this emergency? Or, would you not only…
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Self-Storage: Spending Money to Store Our Stuff
“You can’t take it with you.” — Proverb In his Slate article entitled Self-Storage Nation, Tom Vanderbilt writes, “You can’t take it with you but you can certainly find a place to stash it away.” So what compels people to spend money on storing their idle belongings? I’ve done this only once in my lifetime……
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Make Moving Cheaper by Avoiding Moving Pitfalls
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” Well folks, I gathered lots of “experience” in one area of my finances this past month: moving expenses. Like many other twenty-somethings, Zac and I have moved often. We’ve gotten to the point where we feel comfortable enough to skip moving guides…
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Free Expense Tracker: A Simple Excel Spreadsheet May Be All You Need
One of my numerous resolutions this year is to keep track of how I spend my money. However, in keeping this resolution, I didn’t want to deal with the hassle and cost for software like Quicken or MS-Money. After all, I didn’t want my expense tracker to be another expense. Also, I just wanted to…
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Tax Forms Missing Lines for Important Deductions
Are you getting a jumpstart on your 2006 tax return? Are you self-preparing your taxes? If so, beware! The IRS has mailed packets of tax forms with lines missing on which to claim important deductions. The lines are for claiming deductions for state and local sales tax, higher education tuition and fees, and educator expenses.
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Seven Money Questions for Queercents
“If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily” — Chinese Proverb At times it’s nice to have the tables turned on you. Andrea Dickson at Wise Bread wanted to get to know us better at Queercents so yesterday she sent along a few questions to introduce us to their readers.…
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The Difference between Debt Consolidation and Debt Settlement
“Debt is the worst poverty.” — Thomas Fuller Got Debt? In this day and age, many people have consumer debt and typically this means credit card debt. Peter Berkery at PlanetOut Money writes, “Credit cards are evil. You should never carry a balance on them.” This tip is found in an article appropriately titled, Satan…
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New Year’s Rituals for Success
Today I wrote a post on my Coaching4Lesbians blog called “Take Stock of 2006 and Create a Vision for 2007”. When it comes to your finances, the same holds true — if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. So, I suggest taking a few quiet moments this holiday weekend…
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New Year Resolution #1: Check Your Credit Reports Free
Happy new year, happy new queer! The daylight hours are now gradually getting longer, a new calendar will soon hang on your wall, and it’s a perfect time to make a resolution to better yourself somehow in the coming year. Something I tend to neglect, even with my fairly responsible use of credit, is keeping…
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