Family Dollar: Makes Shopping Easier

Family Dollar, one of the leading value retailer’s in the U.S, has made shopping this holiday season easier and more cost-effective for those of us pinching our pockets. On December 1st, Family Dollar celebrated the start of the holiday season by offering hundreds of brand-name toys (featuring popular brand name items like Hot Wheels, Bakugan [...]

AARP Sponsors a New Online Personal Finance Community, LifeTuner.org, to Engage Young Adults In Financial Conversations

AARP’s LifeTuner program released a survey demonstrating money and finance as the biggest concern in the lives of young adults and the negative impact it might have on their financial futures due to their unwillingness to discuss the matter with friends and family.  The report, titled “Personal Finances: The Final Frontier of Social Media,” was [...]

Where’s Your Money Going?

With the holidays right around the corner, I as well as many others have thought about what, who, when and where our dollars and cents will be going to. So with that in mind, I wanted to share some helpful personal finance tips that may give you an AHA! moment and get you on track [...]

Consumers Expected to Cut Back This Holiday

With the uncertainty of our current economic state and as the 2009 holiday shopping season kicks off, many consumers will be holding on to their pocketbooks a little tighter and spending less.  According to a new Consumer Reports Holiday Shopping Poll, 65 percent of Americans are planning on cutting back on all of their holiday [...]

Back-to-School Budget Tips

Are you looking for ways to save on school supplies and clothing this year? Check out these 5 tips that may help you stretch your dollar.
1.Take an inventory of what you already have on hand and make a list of what is needed.
2.Be sure to create a budget. Go in with a plan of attack [...]

Educating Children About the Economy

With back to school about set to begin and the holidays just around the corner, many working class families are either losing or having difficulty obtaining employment. Many are also finding it very hard to make ends meet while trying to keep things together for the sake of their family.

As parents we want to protect our children but what do we do when faced with such an issue and how do we speak to our children about it?…

The Money Talk…

PBS has taken their show, A Place of Our Own and created a series regarding the economy and how to speak to our children about the subject matter…

Making simple decisions in preparation for the arrival of a baby

One thing I did not realize when I was pregnant and preparing for the baby was the enormity that is the baby market. I enlisted the help of my husband for this task. I did not want to become like so many other first-time mothers who enter a baby store and want everything off the shelves…

Things they don’t tell you – the financial aspect of parenthood

While pregnant, I researched and tried to educate myself as much as I could on what to expect before the arrival of my son. To my surprise, I found very little information on how one should prepare financially before the umbilical cord was cut…