Teach Your Children to Manage Money

Teaching children about money needs to involve more than allowances and birthday money.
With the horrible state of the global economy, it is now, more than ever, important the we teach the next generation how to be responsible with money.
Having five children myself, I believe that it is never too early to start teaching your children [...]

Consumer ATM Safety Tips

ATMs (automated teller machine) are a great convenience, allowing us to do our banking 24 hours a day. Given the widespread availability of ATM access and the convenience it affords, using an ATM card has become an important part of our everyday life. By following some common sense guidelines, we can help ensure that [...]

Safe Internet Banking

With the rapid advancements and growth in the field of Internet, online banking is becoming more and more popular. Now, you can transact with the bank with just a click of your mouse. You don’t need to travel to your bank in order to issue a checkbook or get the monthly statement. All you [...]

Children and the Question of Money

With five children between the ages of 5 and 14 years old, I know that money skills are some of the most important skills young adults need when they head out on their own. And they can’t be learned in a 2-week crash course right after graduation, either! From preschool ages on, children and teens [...]

Living Without Credit

We are in the middle of the worst global economic melt-down in history. Yes, the economy will eventually grow back but will we really learn a lesson from all of this?
The lesson to be learned  is this: we can never again spend money we don’t have to spend. We must learn to live within certain [...]

Car Care – The Basics III

We continue with our series on Car Care addressing the basics of maintaining a safe and dependable car.
TIRES
Being that it serves as the wearable part of the overall tire/wheel assembly, tires play a large role in vehicle safety. Today’s tires must provide good traction under a wide range of driving and road conditions [...]

New Series Next Week

There is a global economic crisis taking place and there isn’t a country that isn’t feeling the effects.
Understanding that this situation is going to be around for a long time, it is important that we all learn to save money anyway we can.
One way is learning more about the family automobile. By learning how to [...]

Stretching Your Grocery Shopping Money

In these tough economic times, saving money on food and groceries can prove to be difficult when the price of eating tends to cut deep into even the best made budget. Rather than become discouraged and spend money outside of the food budget, try incorporating some new money saving strategies into your shopping trips.
Saving money [...]

Make – In Instead of Take – Out

The weekend is upon us again. Let’s have some fun and make some healthy burgers that the whole family will love.
So many families are use to ordering take-out food or eating out instead of cooking at home on the weekends. With the tough economic times we must adjust our lifestyles so that we can make [...]

Teaching Children to Manage Their Own Money

Teaching children about money needs to involve more than allowances and birthday money.
With the horrible state of the global economy, it is now, more than ever, important the we teach the next generation how to be responsible with money.
Having five children myself, I believe that it is never too early to start teaching your children [...]

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