Author Archives: Martinique
Building a new financial life: decisions are all mine
It's been six months since my big gay divorce and I'm doing so well that sometimes I forget how recently it was and how profoundly it shook me. My finances,…
True Confessions: How wine destroys my thrift
My name is Martinique and I have a lesbitonic wine problem. Right. Back up. Lesbitonic? Here is how lesbitonic came about. I wrote this to my friend Kristen: girls blow…
The untangling of finances after invincible bliss
When people first get married or move in and merge finances there is excitement and nerves. They look around at their dishes and the bottles of wine they anticipate drinking…
Learning to budget after my big gay divorce
I recently went through a big gay divorce, which makes for lots of great posts about finances, but hasn't made for much emotional motivation to write about them. I've been…
Insufficient Funds: How to get those fees refunded
Last month, the wife and I tried a new money-system which included more sharing than before and much less in our own bank accounts. As a result, I misjudged what…
The Payoff of a Poor Girl Party
A few years ago while in the throes of poverty that often come with graduate school, employment at Starbucks and a quarterlife crisis, I cooked up an idea to expand…
It’s not worth living without a cell phone
I just blogged about how much I hate my cell phone bill, and today I changed our plan and lowered it! We have Cellular, so we have free incoming minutes.…
Monthly Expenses: Is it worth living without a cell phone?
I was adding up our expenses, and every time I do this I get so angry at how much we pay for our cell phones each month. Between the two…
Don’t buy water: A thrifty sister rule!
It has finally become sort of uncool to buy water. Just a few years ago the opposite was true. You might kid yourself now, but bottled water took off because…
Ask the hospital to forgive your debt
I had the misfortune of being diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of twenty-two. It was about 8 months after I finished college and I was first told to…