Stretch Your Food Dollar: Utilizing Root Vegetables
Welcome to another edition of our weekly food budgeting series. One of my favorite things about the Fall is the abundance of root vegetables that are available. Right now you…
Femme Economics: Five Frugal Fall Fashions
Well, you asked for it: More On Fashion! Last time on Femme Economics I talked about Butch-Femme spending on clothes. Before that I even talked about 'œSplurges That Make Sense'.…
Doctors, Healthcare Givers and Transsexuals: Discrimination Happens Part One
Given their high degree of education, you would think that doctors, and healthcare givers in general, would be quite forward thinking and accepting of the transgendered. I have not…
Pink and Green Parenting: Five Reasons for Queer Parents to Vote
When I post my next Queercents article, we'll have a new president-elect. Yipee! (Hopefully, that yipee isn't ) For those of us still shell-shocked from the disaster of 2004 (not…
What Kind Of Shopping Experience Will You Put Up With To Get A Lower Price?
Most of us here are a little (a lot?) obsessive about getting the best price for especially those that might be called like food. But compulsion to get the best…
Price of Grad School Applications: Spooky, Scary?
As the weather cools down, costume shops and haunted houses become high-traffic areas, and this year's installment of the Saw franchise arrives in theatres, I can't help but recall--with a…
Announcing the Career & Money eBook!
Long time readers of Queercents might remember the Career & Money series I wrote starting in March of 2007. It seemed almost like ancient history to me when Nina suggested…
Cost benefits of using less… a little dab will do ya!
One of the areas I am consciously trying to change is my need to have all of it. Not in the form of materialism, but in the way I use…
Queercents introduces Rachel Gollay
Remember my call for writers about a week ago? Well, I learned something'¦ apparently; short term commitment is the clincher for queers. I had a handful of people write in…
Queercents Weekly Roundup: Vote Louder!
Voting in Maine opened earlier yesterday with a celebration by the League of Progressive Voters. It was a great day of guerilla theater for women's rights and convincing people to…