There are plenty of ways kids can earn money before they're old enough for jobs. Don’t let those pesky child labor laws get in the way of teaching your kids the value of financial rewards that accompany hard work. There are plenty of income ideas they can put into action and none require [...]
Make sure both your base paint and your color tint are low VOC. Dutch Boy Refresh and Pure Performance interior paints may say they contain Zero VOCs - volotile organic compounds that can hurt your health - but it's a claim not entirely true, says the government's Federal Trade Commission. Sure, those base paints may [...]
The rate of volunteering around here is dropping. Does it feel like there are less people offering to sell tickets to the school's annual dinner dance? Or read to kids in the classroom? Your perception is likely a reality, seeing as the volunteer rate in America dropped in 2012, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here's what [...]
Companies sell the dream of working from home but what you buy is a nightmare. The dream of making money from home - on our own schedules, wearing our own pajamas (actually make that someone else's pajamas, ours are ripped) - is so common it's in some cultures considered a maternal instinct. But many of the companies selling [...]
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 [...]
There's a new way to divide money in divorce. Divorce is a major life decision but if together you decide happiness can be found only in separate homes, consider sparing yourselves much of the bloodshed — and therefore the pain — that typically accompanies a marital breakup. Because rather than hiring expensive lawyers [...]
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 [...]