Money management is best learned early - when mistakes cost less. When it comes to a kid's weekly allowance there's just one thing that matters, according to Hollis Harman, an Emmy award-winning financial literacy expert and author of Money Sense for Kids. To teach your child the money-saving techniques you hope will become as habitual as teeth-brushing. [...]
Give your kids the money they want with the economic lessons they need. So your children, who double as employees (taking out the trash, picking up their rooms,) want more money. This is exactly how the Rothschilds must feel. Like the head of any good dynasty, you must raise their allowances. Yes, we're on your side here, stay with us a minute. Because we're [...]
There are lots of ways for married people to share money. If you think marriage means two people must put every penny into a joint checking account, well, you're probably still dusting and vacuming to burn calories June Cleaver-style. So take off your apron a minute while we tell you about this decade. There's hip-grinding workout music and even couples who employ [...]
Teen parent alert: keep your eye out for cans of Four Loko, a fruit-flavored malt beverage that in case you can't tell, is beer pleasing to a kid's palate. Not yet angry enough? Get this: the makers of this brew have been lying about it's alcohol content, telling underage drinkers they can safely sip an entire [...]
Companies can confuse us with numbers and make fake claims. Here's how to avoid getting tricked. Insulation scams are abound. The only thing colder than the weather is the perhaps the people in our power companies' billing departments who relentlessly send us invoices every month. And so spending money on insulation may seem to [...]
Perhaps you left behind a security deposit from your college apartment rental or saw your investment disappear thanks to some shady moves by your broker. Did you suddenly realize your tax return never arrived? Sometimes money isn't lost forever, the government could be holding your unclaimed property. These funds might not be gone forever, as there's a [...]
In honor of our media issue, we peeked into the paychecks of people who work in advertising jobs - making money buy selling us stuff. Here are some average salaries for what clearly are great jobs. Don't see your city? Let us know and we'll post whatever you want. Advertising jobs here pay big. New York [...]
There's a few reasons Superbowl commercials will make you emotional. They're designed that way. The Superbowl is coming up, so get ready to get emotional, and not over the game but the commercials. Yes, Super Bowl advertisers are spending over $2.5 million each for 30 seconds of your time, and they're not interested in getting from [...]
There's a trick or two for beating marketing messages cast over our children and we have it here.... Companies spend $1.7 billion trying to sell our kids sugar and fat. It's no secret that breakfast cereal-makers, soda companies and fast food restaurants spend billions -- $1.79 billion a year, to be exact -- on convincing our kids [...]
We went over the fiscal cliff, here's where we landed. Well, we jumped over the cliff and the government provided us with a thin and temporary parachute. Here's where we landed.Your paychecks will be lower. Or at least the part you get to keep, anyway. The section where you see how much of your money goes to [...]