How To Choose The Best Day Care For Your Little Loved Ones
When it’s time to hand your kid over to someone else to watch, it can be nerve-wracking. How do you know you’re putting your kid in the right place? Here are some suggestions from a reader on things to look for when choosing a day care for your children. Your child is your pride and […]
Teaching Kids to Be Money Smart, Including an Interview With My Son
I have had many posts over the years where I talked about teaching kids how to be financially savvy, but, like with all things, how I’ve done things has evolved, and in this case, quite tremendously. I used to include my kids a lot in discussions about finances, thinking that it would help them understand […]
Body Vision Cameras: Important Things to Know About Bronchoscopy
As someone dealing with a bunch of different and still as yet mostly unexplained medical issues, I’ve been doing a lot different tests and procedures and have more still to do. Each time I have one scheduled I’ve been googling them to find out details to help me not freak out (or at least not […]
5 Tips On How To Furnish Your New Home
If you recently moved into a new home, figuring out how to furnish it can be extremely overwhelming. This is especially so if you’ve moved to a larger home and you don’t have enough furniture to fill your rooms. Here are some tops from a reader on how to go about this task. Moving into […]
Understanding How Medical Alert Systems Work
As our loved ones get older, we need to start thinking about how to take care of them should something happen. A good way to help keep them safe, as well as keep your mind at ease because you know they’ll be able to get help easily is to set up a medical alert system. […]
How I Clothe My Kids, Attempting to Be Frugal While Respecting Their Feelings
When my kids were younger, clothing them was easy enough. I started off their babyhood with a huge amount of clothing as hand me downs from my then sister in law, both girls’ clothes and boys’ clothes. This stash of clothing, more or less, lasted me until my kids were nearly 2. What I didn’t […]
Smart And Easy Ways To Pay Off Your Debt Faster
Ahhh! Debt is my least favorite four letter word. It makes so many people’s lives difficult, haunting them for so long and never letting up. Here are some ways that you can hopefully pay off your debt faster. Being in debt can be a major cause of constant worry and stress, no matter if you’re […]
Everything You Should Know About Kids And Electrical Safety
We need to use electricity in our lives. But there’s no doubt that the usage of electricity poses risks. Especially to little ones. Children are exploratory creatures. They want to learn and discover and see what things are and what happens when I drop something from high up, will it always go down? They learn […]
5 Common Money Traps and How to Get Out Of Them
We were all young and stupid once. Ok, some people take longer to grow out of it than others, but generally as more mature adults we can look back at things we did in earlier adulthood and wring our hands and say “why did we do that?” If we are lucky, we can just remember […]
What To Do If You’re Having An Emergency and You Need Immediate Funding
Please have an emergency fund. Please, please, please have an emergency fund. This is one of the most important things in order to be frugal, because without an emergency fund you can get into big financial trouble if you don’t have a financial cushion for that. But let’s say you don’t have an emergency fund, […]
