A Richer Life Without Cable Television
I went back to NY to visit my family this past Christmas. I haven't had cable TV for the past seven years, so I was looking forward to catching up…
WWYD: Lie to Keep You Career?
If you knew that the only way you could save your career was to deny and lie about who you are, would you? That is precisely the dilemma a soldier…
An Inconvenient Flip: Shifting Real Estate on a Dime
While Jason and I are still enjoying our new house, I want to talk about another real estate experience we encountered. During the fall of 2006, my partner and I…
Pink & Green Parenting: How to Save Money While Going Organic
'œOh, so you shop at Whole Paycheck?' 'œOrganics! Well, my family can't afford that.' 'œWe didn't have all these special organic products when we were growing up, and we're fine,…
Buying Real Estate in 2008
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…
Femme Economics: The Beauty of School
Waxing, Facials, Body Scrubs. It's amazing when people take time out of their schedules to treat themselves well. It has always been a crazy dream to one day open up…
Tax Tidbit #3: How to Obtain a Copy of Your Tax Documents
As you gather information for your 2007 tax returns, you may need to refer to prior year returns. Do you know where your archive records are? Are they in the…
Dr. Martin Luther King Day Personal Finance Connections
At Treading Together we often work with diversity and multiculturalism. Many of our events or programs revolve around holidays such as today, Black History Month in February, or Women's History…
Frugal Living w/out Hardship
Getting rid of unused items. Clearly, using garage sales, classifies, online selling forums, etc. Raise useful cash. Less obvious is how much we lose in depreciation on many items (especially…
Besting = Better Nesting for Boomers Buying Real Estate
'œTo own a home.' '“ The American Dream You can summarize Bob Waun's new book, Besting, Better Nesting: The New American Dream in one quote: 'œDownsizing is less about size,…