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 [...]

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 [...]

Tip of the Week – January 5, 2009

Cutting the Cost of Eating Healthy
Many friends and acquaintances tell me that healthy eating is all very well but is far too expensive for those on low incomes.
I feel compelled to explain that even nutritionists, like many others, exist on tight budgets.
Nevertheless, I am pleased to receive these views as they highlight a common misconception.
Perhaps [...]

Christmas on a Budget

Tis the season for giving…the season to be broke
We all want to be that one family member who everyone anticipates receiving a gift from. We want to impress our loved ones with our knowledge of who they are and what they like, while seemingly unaware of any price tags. Unfortunately, such adoration doesn’t come for [...]

Getting More Christmas For Less

Christmas is just round the corner and every one can be seen making long lists of things to be done before Christmas. What is different this year is a global economic turn-down. With no end in sight for, at least, a year or more, all of us must learn to be “smart” with our money.
We [...]