Gay Up the Wall Street Journal?
I had not given much thought about what it means to subscribe to a widely-regarded conservative newspaper such as the Wall Street Journal since I have never directly purchased a…
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…
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…
IRS Extends Filing Deadline to April 17th!!!
It's not even the end of January and my schedule is jam packed. As a tax preparer I frequently find myself wishing for "one more day" this time of the…
Ten Money Questions for Jamison Green
Queercents strives to represent diversity in the LGBT community and in my opinion the trans voice and view is one where we have come up short. So when I asked…
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…
Lose Weight; Fatten Your Wallet– Is That Really True?
I recently found the article "Losing Weight Will Fatten Your Wallet" over at and of course was instantly intrigued by the headline. As someone who is pretty health conscious, I…
WWYD: Withholding can be enabling
A few weeks back, in a previous column in the What Would You Do Series, I wrote that my Dad had asked for a $3,000 loan in order to replace…
The Millionaire (is not living) Next Door
"Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you." -- Erma Bombeck Last week, I mentioned how some women use…
Yahoo Personal Finance – New Site
Recently, I was tipped off to the launch of Yahoo's new Personal Finance site via an article at lifehacker. There's a nice little review of it in their article so…