Splurging on Safety: Disregard Cost Per Use
Recently Paula wrote about a topic that actually has been referenced quite a lot here, and that's calculating the true cost of an item in terms of cost per use.…
Stretch Your Food Dollar: Thanksgiving on a Budget, Part 2
Holy moley, can you believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner? Last week's edition of Stretch Your Food Dollar was about cheap and easy Thanksgiving dishes. And this week…
Review: How to Profit from the Coming Rapture
The Rapture is coming, the Rapture is coming! Oy! This Christmas, I've found the perfect book for my family's white elephant gift exchange. It's called: How to Profit from the…
Surviving Financial Infidelity: The Discovery
I'll probably never forget the day I found out. It was around the middle of October '“ our daughter's birthday weekend '“ and we had gone camping. Since we…
How the Election Might Affect Real Estate
For two years the political election campaign dragged on - often through slug mud - as the real estate market simultaneously continued its record-breaking fall. But with the pivotal elections…
Queercents introduces Alex Taylor
New Series Alert: We recently launched two new series at Queercents: Rachel Gollay's Grad School Finances and Michael Moy's Luxe Life (the ups and downs of being a gay house…
Joys and Perils of a Luxe Life: Comfort’s Discomfort
Jay always kids me about how I bounced back and forth above and below my credit limit until my mid-thirties, teetering on the edge of he terms 'œcertain financial collapse.'…
6 Myths of Garage Sale Shopping
Most people don't buy everything new. Some buy used cars, get hand-me-downs, or recycle furniture from their parents. Garage sales are no different, you are just acquiring items in a…
When celebrities fly coach (or at least on a commercial airline).
'œCome fly the Friendly Skies.' '“ United Airlines commercial, circa 1987 Diddy isn't the only celebrity flying commercial these days. In the past 2 months, I've seen Eva Mendes, Ron…
Queercents Weekly Roundup: First Snow
On Tuesday, we got our first flurries of snow in Maine. Admittedly, I'm a little disappointed that the sun is almost completely gone by four , but beautiful flurries of…