Food prices: Celery & Onions Costing More
Prices for soup ingredients are heating up. If you thought this winter weather was rough wait until you see what's going to happen to the price of the hot soup you eat at home. While [...]
Don’t Buy House Paints Emitting Dangerous Fumes
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 [...]
Life In Numbers: Volunteering
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 [...]
The Wait List: What NOT to Buy this Month
Each month, we tell you what economists know about shopping, which at first may not sound like much - thankfully pocket protectors are so versitle. But they do know that to get the most for your money, you gotta not only [...]
Work at Home Scams
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 [...]
Kids & Allowances: Guidelines For Giving Kids Cash
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 [...]
How To Raise A Kid’s Allowance
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 [...]
3 Ways to Share Money (or Not) in Marriage
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 [...]
Underage Drinking: Four Loko is (Strong) Beer Pleasing to a Kid’s Pallate
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: [...]
Cut the Costs (and Chaos) of Divorce
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 [...]