Weekend Entrepreneur: Dating Should Be Fun And In Mass Quantities
This week I spoke with Adele Testani who co-founded in partnership with her childhood friend Ken Deckinger. Having found fun and enjoyable ways to earn money on the side in…
Want to Know The Secret Behind “The Secret”?
People keep asking me, "What do you think of the movie The Secret ? Usually they ask because they want a chance to share what they thought of the viral,…
Sleeping With Money: How to Undo a Wedding
In this week's Sleeping With Money I let you in on some of the foibles of my past. Oh dear, how we queers love serial monogamy! And so many of…
Almost Debt Free: Choosing the Best Emergency Savings Plan For You
There are two camps to the emergency savings issue. Camp A tells you to immediately pay off your debts and let credit be your emergency cushion until you can start…
Overdrawn Accounts Fuel Banks
I remember being young and new to banking. With my account I received an ATM card, a relatively new invention at the time. I used my ATM card freely to…
Prepping Your Income for Retirement
Laurie Flynn is a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and is a supporter of Queercents. She's written a few posts these past weeks on the topic of investing. These are…
Cool Your Home and Your Spending
I'd like to highlight a few ideas that I have found work in my residence and of course if you have further ideas, don't hesitate to speak up and post…
Outliving your Money: Retiring with HIV
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." -- Rabindranath Tagore Here's a "savings" stat to scare us as we head off to work on a Monday…
The Death of Customer Service and Bringing It Back
I thought updating my credit card information at the gym was going to be a simple procedure. Initially the experience went well. A new employee at the desk was doing…
Sleeping With Money: Out Earning Your Partner
"Perfect love cannot be without equality." - Scottish Proverb Last week, Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity posed a question (primarily to straight men) as a way to learn if…