How to Go Shopping with Kids… Without Blowing Your Budget (or Losing Your Mind)
'œBut Mommy, I WANT it!' What parent hasn't given in to that plea, when you know a tantrum will follow if you say no? Shopping with kids can be challenging.…
Why I Hate Federal Taxes
The other day on Sirius satellite radio, Howard Stern was complaining about the fact that the merger between XM and Sirius has not yet been approved by US government regulators.…
Plain Talk about Fancy Mortgages: Stick with old-fashioned 30-year fixed
This is a guest post from Jeff Hammerberg, the founder of , the largest company in the nation representing the rights of queer home buyers and sellers. These are his…
Freakonomics – The secret economy of everything
I've decided to start a new thread on Queercents where I review business books. I've decided that these books could fall into a few categories, including productivity, advice, retirement, economics,…
Tax Tidbit #5: Deductible Business Travel Expenses
My Aunt and Uncle are in town for a business trip and we just spent a lovely day on the California coast. In the course of our conversations, I reminded…
Extend a Life. Extend your Life. A Frugal Life.
Sometimes frugal living is just a decision away, a slight change in attitude, or a different view on the way we look at life around us. Right before you throw…
Are You in Integrity? – FREE Teleclass
What is integrity? The word gets tossed around a lot, but do you know what it really is? Are you clear on what it means to be in integrity? Did…
Countrywide suspending equity lines of credit
'œIt is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.' '“ Anatole France I've always kept a home equity line of…
Queercents Weekly Roundup: Ted Kennedy, Apropos of Nothing
So do you think the reason Ted Kennedy refused to look up from his copy of the text during the State of the Union was that he knew the cameras…
Is Worry Costing You?
I was recently reading an article published by my financial planner's firm and it talks about an old saying on Wall Street that "the stock market climbs a wall of…