Spring Selling Tips: Make showings more effective for faster sales
Before potential buyers tour the home, a seller should take specific steps to help make a strong and positive impression. That will greatly improve the chances of getting a prompt…
Professional Directory: Member Spotlight
Today is the last day for your chance to win the $50 iTunes gift card giveaway for being a beta tester (or convincing someone to be a beta tester!) for…
Stretch Your Food Dollar: The Importance of Food Storage
Times are really getting tough for folks, and more and more families are having to curtail their spending habits. In lean times, food storage is a total blessing. I grew…
Femme Economics: Money Makes a Femme? Reading Femmethology
Oh my dear femmes, and the femme-curious: What makes a femme? I've been writing this column trying to say a lot of things about class politics and eco-feminism through the…
How to help your aging parents with their finances
'œTo this day, I still don't know my father's income.' '“ Cooper Smith My parents have always been very private about their finances. That said, in high school, I learned…
My Financial Implosion: Avoiding Homelessness
'œWe think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our…
Buying The Tools Of Your Trade
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about how buying the more expensive option on personal belongings could actually be cheaper over the long run. How does this…
Paying estimated taxes: 1Q2009
If you pay estimated taxes, remember that the 1Q 2009 bill was due 15 April 2009. With everyone focusing on finishing 2008 taxes, it's easy to overlook this deadline for…
Regan McClure, Lynn Casper & Yasmin Nair join Queercents
The thing I like most about Queercents is our readers. I posted last week about needing a new frugal writer and immediately received two emails. I quickly discovered that both…
Should You Purchase Renters’ Insurance?
Last week we got some very bad news: our friends' home had been burglarized and over $34,000 worth of computer equipment was stolen. Fortunately our friends had renters' insurance, although…