What I Learned From Working at a Bank

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My boss has asked me in my last two performance appraisals what I enjoy about my job and each time, I say that having this job will make me 10 times wealthier ...

Should You Live at Home While Attending College?

One of the biggest decisions that college freshmen need to make is whether or not to live at home while attending college. If your university is far away from your home town, the decision is a pretty easy one, since you don’t have much choice. However, if you are attending school within an hour of your home, the decision has ...

6 Back to School Essentials for High Schoolers

They can study, hold an after-school job, and keep a group of friends, but they still may need a little help from their parents in finding (and paying for) the best gear ...

Should I Buy Life Insurance for My Children?

This is a question I hear all the time from readers who are parents – and it’s a question that comes up in our own household as well. Should our children have life insurance policies?

I’ve done a lot of research and soul-searching on this topic. What follows are the conclusions I’ve come to on the issue. ...

The Family That Saves Together

My four year old son thinks that the way you get a new video game is by trading for it at the used video game store.

At dinner time, they both eat exactly what their parents eat – and that’s considered normal, as opposed to making them a special kid-friendly meal that racks up the extra food dollars.

My two year old ...

Some Thoughts on DINKs (Dual Income, No Kids)

A couple weeks ago, I posted some links to a discussion concerning whether it was smart or selfish to not have children, as well as a response to that issue.

Since then, the whole matter has stuck in my head. Is it smart or selfish to have children? Several readers have emailed me their thoughts on the subject as ...

Children’s Allowance: When To Start and How Much to Give?

I’m not exactly sure when parents started giving allowances to their kids.  I wonder if that was around the same time when the tooth fairy started stock piling teeth.  However, somehow kids are introduced to the economics of life when they are just wee little humans. On the one hand, some parents say kids should get an allowance when they ...

Buying Things You Wish You Had Time For

Not too long ago, I traded in my Nintendo DS and the games I had accumulated for it for a Playstation 3 and a handful of used games. I did this for two reasons, mostly. One, I don’t play the DS much at all since I’m not traveling (when I am out and about, I usually use my ...

Reader Mailbag: Stephen Strasburg

I’m in a pretty competitive fantasy baseball league this year. During our draft, I made the most controversial pick, drafting Stephen Strasburg (who has yet to make his major league debut) with my fifth pick in the draft.

He has been utterly unhittable in the minors. Every day, I get up and look at the sports news, wondering if ...

Who Judges You?

We’re all constantly being judged. People glance at us and form opinions about us. Our friends, our family, our vaguest associates all have ideas of what we should or shouldn’t be doing. Often, those opinions are made very clear to us – sometimes directly (when they tell us their thoughts about what we’re doing) or indirectly (when ...

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