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Sleeping with Money: Safeguard Finances Before The Break-Up
We have a new category at Queercents called Sleeping with Money. These are financial lessons learned from partners (past and present) including men and women we might have dated for…
Sleep in Truck: Student Pays Off Credit Card Debt
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." -- H. G. Wells Here's some financial news of the strange just the down road from me. On Monday, Seema…
GayRealEstate.com – Part 1
is the largest company in the nation representing the rights of queer home buyers and sellers. Queercents asked Jeff Hammerberg, the founder of for a series of articles specific to…
Queercents and Family Pride
Family Pride is partnering with Queercents this week to bring their readers a full of week Queercents "guest bloggers" with our posts found at the Family Pride blog. Family Pride…
The Real Cost of Gym Memberships
"Don't go to the grave with life unused." -- Bobby Bowden Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, the authors of Freakonomics recently wrote an article in the New York…
Is the Kitchen Remodel Worth It?
"Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments." -- Channing Pollock Jeanine and I have lived in our current home for almost two…
Money and the Blind
"All money, no matter how much it's worth, feels the same." -- Frank Welte, a 45-year-old blind man Hey ladies, do we have any Sarah Silverman fans out there? She's…
Tax Refunds and Other Lump Sums Part II
"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. All the financial experts agree that if you are getting a refund then you have given your…
When Life Gives Hurricanes: Make Hurricane Aid
"Who practices hospitality entertains God himself." -- Proverb Lewis Routh and his long term partner lived in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina devastated the region. This is their story about…
How To Cut Living Expenses
"Frugality without creativity is deprivation." -- Amy Dacyczyn Business recently named the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2006 and Northwest Airlines made the Top Ten when they issued a…