Nestled in between the economic crisis and the election is this little “holiday” named, Halloween.  I admit, I am so not focused on Halloween right now which is kind of tough since my 3 boys live for trick o treating and the hordes of candy they bring home.  I am more focused on saving money [...]

There is much debate on how much to tell your children about the current economy.  It’s the main focus of the news, it’s talked about in school and we live in an area where many parents work for major financial institutions.
I feel it is important for children to understand the current economic issues in an age appropriate [...]

I’m learning about children and allowance as I go.  There are a lot of people that pay money for chores for children, others require their children work outside the home to earn money and another parenting style is to provide allowance for no return in responsibilities at all.  I don’t pass judgment on any one because I [...]

After much discussion about whether or not we could financially justify a summer vacation, we decided in favor and took a trip to the shore this week.  We cut our vacation down to 4 nights because we spent a lot of money sending our 3 kids to summer sleepaway camp this year. 
When going on a family vacation, there are certain things that I [...]

Our 14 year old just completed week 2 on a budget.  To recap, week one he was given $50 to do a list of chores outside the typical “clean your room responsiblities”.  Week 2, he was given $40 because he missed 2 chores on week one.  We gave him the money on Sunday in order [...]

As I sit here preparing for my last post before we go on a much needed family vacation, many ideas run through my mind.  Do I blog about my son’s struggle budgeting his weekly allowance?  Or the pile of bills waiting to be paid before we leave?  What about the $200 I just deposited at Staples for the [...]

All of 3 of our children have cell phones - even the 10 year old twins.  Why did we decide to buy them mobile phones at such a young age?  It’s pretty simple.  We want to be able to contact them at any time.  Call us helicopter parents or over protective.  We really don’t care.  We want [...]

I know, the summer is only half over (or half begun for the optimists) but it’s hard not to notice the ads for discount school supplies in the Sunday newspaper.  My 10 year old twins received their 5th grade “suggested school supply list” on their last day of school so it makes it a bit [...]

My kids go to a midweek sleepaway camp. They get on the bus Monday morning and come home Friday night.  My 14 year old has been going for 4 years and this year for the first time we sent the 10 year old twins.  We decided to send the twins for only two weeks because [...]

We’re all huge Batman fans in my family so Friday morning I purchased 5 tickets from moviefone.com for the evening show of the Dark Knight.  It cost us $100.50 for a 2 1/2 hour movie.  Don’t get me wrong, the movie was awesome.  We all loved it, in fact we all would actually see it again…well, if [...]