IRS Extends Filing Deadline to April 17th!!!
It's not even the end of January and my schedule is jam packed. As a tax preparer I frequently find myself wishing for "one more day" this time of the…
Ten Money Questions for Jamison Green
Queercents strives to represent diversity in the LGBT community and in my opinion the trans voice and view is one where we have come up short. So when I asked…
Make Moving Cheaper by Avoiding Moving Pitfalls
Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Well folks, I gathered lots of "experience" in one area of my finances this past month: moving…
Lose Weight; Fatten Your Wallet– Is That Really True?
I recently found the article "Losing Weight Will Fatten Your Wallet" over at and of course was instantly intrigued by the headline. As someone who is pretty health conscious, I…
WWYD: Withholding can be enabling
A few weeks back, in a previous column in the What Would You Do Series, I wrote that my Dad had asked for a $3,000 loan in order to replace…
The Millionaire (is not living) Next Door
"Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you." -- Erma Bombeck Last week, I mentioned how some women use…
Yahoo Personal Finance – New Site
Recently, I was tipped off to the launch of Yahoo's new Personal Finance site via an article at lifehacker. There's a nice little review of it in their article so…
Can Shampoo Save You Money?
"He who does not economize will have to agonize." -- Confucius There's a side of me that tries to be frugal. There's another part that is just plain cheap. My…
Get Hitched and Get Out of Debt?
After Zac, the other great love of my life is the New York Times. Like Zac, the New York Times just gets me, and tells me everything I want to…
Beyond the Green Corporation
The cover article of BusinessWeek for January 29 ("Beyond the Green Corporation") argues that many leading companies now believe they will make more money by helping communities and protecting the…