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Bliss Doesn’t Come with a Direct Deposit
I am now less than two weeks away from my thirtieth birthday. Thirty is a big, fat, round number. And since I'm coming up on this big fat round number,…
Financial Resolutions for 2008, Part II
Last week I analyzed my 2008 financial plans in spending and saving. This week I want to look at the rest of the categories: debt, credit and career. Debt As…
Sleeping With Money: Trading In Dreams
Okay. I have been avoiding these "Sleeping With Money" posts because I was in the closet about something. I'm dating a lawyer. A corporate litigator, no less. I was in…
Unmarried Finances
This week, Jean Chatzky has an article in Money magazine about the particular perils of single finances. I'm sure it will comes as a shock to all Queercents readers that…
A Better Way To Spend That
First of all--hello, Queercents! It's wonderful to meet you. Preparing my first post, scheduled to go up right at Thanksgiving, no less, was proving pretty daunting. How to adequately introduce…
What is financial success?
I started working at a pretty young age. I also liked to excel at whichever job I was doing. I remember the local newspaper had a contest to see which…
Meet the Queercents Intern
Last weekend I put out a casting call for the Queercents intern and after receiving a plethora of sincere replies, we settled on the smart and delightful, Melissa Eastlake. I…
And Two Wallets Became One’¦
Nina had written about fighting over money and it got me thinking. My partner Jason and I haven't ever fought over money. We may have disagreements about which bill to…
About Melissa
Melissa is a 22-year-old Libra on the cusp of Virgo (careful in finance, reckless in love). She graduated from Hollins University in May of 2007 with a in Communication Studies…
Seeking Queercents Intern
'œI had really gone to Washington as a short pit stop on my way to graduate school.' '“ Monica Lewinsky Looking for a short pit stop? Queercents needs an intern.…