Nickel and Dime Yourself
I was walking into the store recently and a guy was dumping into one of the coin counter vending machines, a plastic bin full of rolled quarters, nickles, dimes and…
Invest Like A Movie Producer
"I don't know how brilliant we were, but we were very enthusiastic about movies and the chance to make them." -- Francis Ford Coppola On Sunday, Kathy Kristof wrote an…
Overdue: Saving Money at the Library
"Keep company with the rich and you'll end up picking up the tab every time." -- Anonymous Since I've been publishing Queercents, I'm amused when friends make assumptions about me:…
God and Money: Lesbians Go To Church
"He is risen, he is not here." -- Mark 16:6 Jeanine and I went to church it was an Easter thing. Church is always a strange experience for me because…
Caught Up in Real Estate Fever
"Successful people turn everyone who can help them into sometime mentors." -- John Crosby With my real estate investments, I've practiced the buy and hold strategy. This is something that…
Jim Cramer Will Never Be A Gay Icon
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de St. Exupery Even with all the filters…
Seduced by Adjustable Rate Loans & Teaser Rates
"Desperate maladies require desperate remedies." -- French Proverb Here's the sad story of the day. "We were having a hard time meeting bills at the time we refinanced. It seems…
Housing Bubble and Affordability
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." -- Albert Camus Michael Mandel recently wrote a commentary for BusinessWeek about the housing bubble entitled: Think of…
Gambling: Gays Don’t Own This Addiction
"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver." -- Ayn Rand I'm heading off to Las Vegas…
Perfect Vision: A View on the Cost of Health Care
"He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything." -- Arabic Proverb Aside from my annual checkup, I can't remember the last time I got sick…