Pick-pockets could be the least of your problems. Vacation deals are easier than ever to find but one wrong click online could buy you a ticket to nowhere. Here's a roadmap to the top three ripoffs. Rental ruse: There are so many wonderful ways scammers can sell you a fake vacation rental! Sometimes they [...]
The store may be closing but the prices aren't always rock bottom. Aside from free sample tastings in the supermarket - which according to a federal law I made up, have absolutely no calories - few sights can lure me like a "Going Out of Business" sale sign. The prospect of paying rock bottom [...]
You don't have to pay an extra 10,000 percent to keep kids hydrated. 1) The problem: We don’t drink water like it’s water. It’s critical our kids stay hydrated, particularly if you’re the type of parent who can in a split-second rattle off several reasons a child might be hospitalized from simply playing outdoors — [...]
The editors of a popular baby website have compiled for their large community of moms-to-be a list of the best strollers around. One such model reminded the editorial panel of a transformer, and the group collectively gushed about how you can even charge your cell phone with this bad boy. This stroller, like all the editors [...]
There's nothing alarming about a four-year old having eczema. Unless, of course, the US Food and Drug Administration links the steroid cream you've been applying to the kid's eczema - almost nightly - to lymphoma. So then can I panic? Don't bother answering. (I panicked.) And since everyone knows it's silly to waste a perfectly good [...]
Most of our kids have no idea how to earn money, spend money or even give people charitable contributions, according to research commissioned by Junior Achievement and the Jackson Charitable Foundation. In a survey of 500 American kids ages seven to 10 years old, the JA-Jackson Children’s Financial Literacy Survey found kids are actually excited when [...]
Don't let love leave you bankrupt. Janet Lombardi was once just like any of us; a mom with a husband and two kids, living on a suburban tree-lined street. The only perhaps slight difference is that she started an extramarital affair and didn’t notice her husband’s surreptitious drug problem that led to his signing [...]
You might be able to turn money donated to your kids' school into a tax break. Did you volunteer at a bake sale? Sorry to hear it, that's time you'll never get back. But if you gave money to the PTA, you might be able to take some tax deductions. Tax deductions let you lower your [...]
Movies, dinners and arcade games.....family time can get expensive and it's time we as parents planned activities that cost less but mean more. Here are five ideas. Bake. Anytime an activity combines measuring, fractions, delicious smells, patience AND dessert, well, it's considered a good activity, indeed. Plenty of websites offer low-sugar recipes that use bananas, dates and oats, so head [...]
It's hard to sell an idea but don't let this guy steal your marketing money. World Patent Marketing and Desa Industries (two companies that promise to promote your invention in exchange for thousands of dollars) actually lie to customers, takes their money and do absolutely nothing in exchange except turn into a giant bully [...]
