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When I was little my mom used to dread shopping for school clothes. Now I understand why. It wasn’t the actual process of shopping, it was how much money would be spent keeping four elementary-children in clothes.
School clothes are just one of dozens of expenses parents are required to pay. Even if your kid is in public school, it all adds up.
But the Krech family put their noses to the grindstone and was able to save around $4,000 in just one year. Now, college student Rachel Krech is documenting how they did it: Continue reading »
Having a Baby Doesn't Have to Break the Bank
Having a new baby can be expensive — and we’re not talking about hospital bills. Between the crib, the stroller, the changing table, baby clothes and diapers, parents can go broke!
Like a lot of moms, when I had my first child, I was determined to buy the best crib, the nicest clothes and the coolest stroller. Soon enough, I realized how foolish I was. My baby barely slept in the crib — and even then, she could care less what it looked like. And she outgrew the newborn clothes within the first couple of weeks.
By child #2, I knew better than to splurge on new baby gear. In fact, we scrapped the changing table entirely and just used a changing pad on the bed.
TheDollarStretcher.com recently featured a “Moms Guide to Saving on a New Baby.” Here are some of their tips (as well as some of my own). Continue reading »
Shopkick is a new iPhone app that will reward you for doing something you are doing anyway: Back to school shopping.
Unveiled today at an American Eagle Outfitters shop in New York City, Shopkick will not only save you money and earn you rewards, but might just make the dreaded chore of back to school shopping actually seem like fun. Continue reading »
I hate money. I don’t hate having it on the rare occasion when I do, and it’s the one thing I would probably hate less if I had more of it. But I hate thinking about it, stressing about it, wondering about the best way to manage it, etc.
But financial experts say this attitude is pretty harmful to my kids — that teaching them about money, and how to deal with it, is one of the best things we can do for them to start them on the right path in life. And given that my five-year-old just asked for an allowance, I found this week’s Wall Street Journal article on “15 Money Rules Kids Should Learn” enormously timely.
One of the most interesting ones, which writer Jeff D. Opdyke talks about in his post for The Juggle, Continue reading »
Times are tough — even Elmo knows it. For many of us, money is really tight, and for those of us that are still lucky enough to be gainfully employed at our usual level of pay, the tanking of the financial markets mean that we’re looking to squeeze more savings for the future out of those paychecks. So any tips for saving money can be really, really helpful.
To that end, Kiplinger’s has a feature on its site listing lots of freebies that are available to all, and better, are often things you might actually want. Continue reading »
OK, I’ve got to say it: if your kid is dying to have sex, he or she is going to. It doesn’t take a breastfeeding doll to make them want it. Or a cheap pregnancy test.
Yes, that’s right, the English version of the American dollar store is selling pregnancy tests and parents are now up in arms that their little precious is going to see it and want to immediately hump anything that moves. Continue reading »
Alert to all broke parents out there – hand-me-downs just became tres chic.
The habit of weeding out our kids’ closets and kicking the goods to our friends got a stamp of approval from Melissa Joan Hart this week as the former teenage witch pulled out her Orbit stroller and two moses baskets to put up for a charity auction.
OK, OK, celeb being fab donates used stuff to charity. Blah, blah, blah. But it’s the interview with MJH that earns her the real mom cred. Continue reading »
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