Archives for Luxe Life
How to get presale tickets to Beyoncé‘s ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour through a simple credit card benefit
BeyHive, assemble! Get ready to lasso those Cowboy Carter tour tickets because your Citi card is about to become your best friend! Yes, mama is giving us a presale, and…
Joys and Perils of a Luxe Life: Giving Back
Being a gay homemaker has given me the time and opportunity to peer into a lot of different worlds. A few years ago a friend asked if I would help…
Joys and Perils of a Luxe Life: Pressure to Upgrade or Content with what You have?
The recent controversy about the auto bailout has revealed a disturbing truth to me: our economy, indeed, our very society, is based on the constant replacement of consumer goods with…
Joys and Perils of a Luxe Life: Financial Fluency: Learning His Language
So many couples I know are composed of opposites, and I always find Jay's and my equivalent in other couples we meet. There's the solid one, like Jay, and the…
Joys and Perils of a Luxe Life: Schadenfreude and Conspicuous Consumption
I've purposely abandoned what I anticipated to be my next posting in this series because of current events and the reader response to my previous post'”especially the concept of frugality…
Joys and Perils of a Luxe Life: Comfort’s Discomfort
Jay always kids me about how I bounced back and forth above and below my credit limit until my mid-thirties, teetering on the edge of he terms 'œcertain financial collapse.'…
Joys and Perils of a Luxe Life: In Dependency
Upon reflection I probably shouldn't have rearranged my bedroom furniture to the point of structural failure or been so focused on organization and décor, but I think the die was…