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Kids & Money: TV Commercials Can’t be Louder than Show

By The Home Economist| 2012-12-28T14:34:09+00:00 December 28th, 2012|Categories: Econo-YOU, Kids & Money|Tags: CALM, cereal commercials, Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation, FCC and kids, kids and commercials, kids and money, loud commercials, marketing and kids, talk to your kids about money, toy commercials|

Television commercials can no longer be louder than the shows they interrupt. Sick of your kids turning off the tv only to ask for new toys? Well, that will still happen but now at least the FCC banned commercials -- the ones toy and cereal companies create to zap their marketing messages directly to your [...]

Have a Less Materialistic Christmas

By The Home Economist| 2013-01-14T03:24:39+00:00 December 10th, 2012|Categories: Econo-YOU, Kids & Money, Random|Tags: cheap christmas gifts, commericals and kids, holidays on a budget, kids and holidays, kids and money, less materialistic holidays, marketing and kids, toy shopping|

Teach your kids about tradition - and that television commercials are for suckers. If your kids have a gift list a mile long of all store-bought stuff, it's time to curl up by the fire and tell everyone the modern day holiday story: How Retailers Hijacked Christmas: The Myth About Debt Being Normal and Presents Mandatory. Because the only thing normal and mandatory at holiday time, people, [...]

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