If you’re like most of us, you’re probably not in sole charge of all the spending in your household. While it’s easy for singles to keep complete control of all their spending– it’s not quite as easy for the rest of us to keep control of spending when one has a spouse who needs to [...]
Read More >>A credit card and your teen may sound like a lethal combination. In fact, if you’re also a ‘recovering’ credit card user yourself trying to pay off a substantial credit card debt, you wouldn’t want your own children to touch that plastic card with a ten feet pole, lest they end up making the same [...]
Read More >>If you read this blog you probably budget; and there’s probably at least one person in the household who’s on a diet. Money and weight are two of the biggest obsessions in Western culture.  Almost everyone wants more money and less weight– though they may not always get either. Luckily, a lot of the same [...]
Read More >>The common cold is supposed to be just as its name implies – ordinary and relatively harmless. And yet nowadays, the symptoms of the cold and its more advanced “form”, the flu, can no longer be dismissed as plain coughs and sneezes that will pass in a few days. I was almost unable to come [...]
Read More >>We’ve all heard both sides to the argument on being frugal vs being cheap. While both can lead to cost savings for a household, the former is more about getting quality products at lower costs, while the latter is getting something simply because it has the lowest price (or comes free!) without much thought to [...]
Read More >>School will be out soon and while most of us are raring to go on that family vacation, sadly, not all of us can afford to. Or if we choose to go through with it anyway, some of the fun is taken out of the supposedly stress-free vacation because we have to compute and then [...]
Read More >>I have a confession to make: money management doesn’t come naturally to me. In fact, I’m one of those people who wants to go get a new book on payday whether I need it or not. In the past this kind of spending has led to what I guess you could call ‘accidents’ where little [...]
Read More >>As the title of the post says, my name is Dave and I’ll be blogging for you today. I’m a stay-at-home Dad and freelance writer. My partner works outside the home and I stay home and look after the kids; her two teens and our daughter who will be seven next week. It’s probably no [...]
Read More >>Photo by NURR You should always have a plan when you are going to spend money. Consider just three areas where we regularly save by planning. Groceries. Planning the meals to cover a week or two weeks will help you stick to a budget. Instead of buying food on impulse, you can plan each meal [...]
Read More >>Pay your savings account like a bill. The age old method of promising to put aside whatever is left over at the end of a month just doesn’t work well. When you get paid, the first thing you should do is put money away into savings. Photo by Aytena Budget a specific amount of your [...]
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