Amazon gift cards work only one place. Ah, the post-holiday hangover – we’ve all got pounds to lose and a gift cards to spend. For the weight, you’re on your own (Personally, I can say only that eliminating vodka is a good start but not enough...) As for the gift cards, it’s important to [...]
Aging parents: there could be help for paying those bills. It's our turn to care for them - our aging parents - and while many of us are fine with the responsibility, some of us short on the funds. Here's your financial break: many of our parents will qualify for help for paying cell phone bills, energy bills, medical bills and prescription drugs. Telephone and [...]
The "My Friend Cayla" dolls is sold as a friend but won't keep any secrets. At least two toys here for the holidays are collecting and recording our kids voices and their private information while sharing it with a countless number of parties, according to a complaint filed by four child advocacy groups, [...]
Parents who find the Shadow of Mordor in your kid's video game consoles can prepare to be angry. (And good news, not at your kid!) Rather - for this moment, anyway - you can direct your scorn to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, which paid important YouTube influencers - most likely the same influencers your kid turned to when deciding [...]
Bentonite Me Baby - a medicinal clay babies could ingest - was found to contain dangerous levels of lead. Bentonite Me Baby - a clay that was supposed to be safe for our babies to ingest and wear on their skin - was found to contain dangerous levels of lead, according to the Food and Drug Administration. In [...]
Cell phone bills are on the rise, but here's how to shrink them. It's not clear whether we needed our nation's top economists studying this issue, but a new government report proves what most of us can surmise after glancing over at our kids: cell phone spending has drastically increased over the past seven years. We managed [...]
Your kid may be cute and mean, but law school is expensive and may not reap the highest paying returns. In today's installment of "Expensive Educational Investments to Carefully Consider" we highlight the returns of law school. Everyone knows that lawyers are cool and get to wear suits and are paid to be mean to other people [...]
Here's over 100,000 reasons you shouldn't feel pressure to buy a bounce house for your kid's party. At the risk of deflating anyone's party plans - and by "anyone" I refer to our tiny friends under age 7 -- it's worth wondering whether our bounce house rental money wouldn't be better spent on, well, absolutely anything other than a bounce house [...]
These are among the deadly diet pills that can pierce holes in your stomach. Let's talk about all the infuriating aspects surrounding latest round of diet pill recalls. In case you have been so busy with your New Year's resolution dieting -- or money-saving or private-fuming because it's so hard being nice to people -- to notice, two major diet pills [...]
It's not a new year without resolutions, but we have to be careful before we go buying things we hope will help make us better parents. Because with the following corporate co-pilots bringing us their products, we'll save more than our money by not buying their help. #NotBuyingIt This water bottle from Pottery Barn was found to [...]
