You don’t have to wait until your kids are teenagers. You can start talking to them about the basics of money as early as preschool. Here are some tips about how to talk to your kids about money at any age: From ages three to five you can teach kids that money can be exchanged for things. Explain to them the difference between pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. From … [Read more...]
Make Your Voice Count and Earn with Survey Spot
As a stay at home mom, I want as much as possible to help augment the family's finances by contributing even as little income as I can thru blogging. Stashing a little money away from my husband's paycheck is great, but it takes away from our monthly essentials like groceries, gas, and utilities.As a matter of fact, I am actually looking for better ways to earn … [Read more...]
Do I Need Employment Resources?
To Stay At Home or to be Employed? This is the question that has been debating in my mind over the past weeks. I am currently stay at home and quite enjoying it. Aside from some blogging gigs I get from this blog, I don't have any other source of income. This question popped when my husband's car broke down and we needed to get a new one, which means it is … [Read more...]
Enter : $1000 Cash Kickin' the Winter Blues Giveaway
Welcome to the Kickin The Winter Blues Giveaway Hosted by Jenn’s Blah Blah Blog and Pink Ninja Media One of my main goals this year is to save money or at least keep some in my savings account. I have made an auto deduct request of $25 from my checking account to go to my savings every 15th of the month and that is to just have something as little which I am saving each … [Read more...]
Why Stay at Home Mums are Best to Control the Family Finances
Most stay at home mums chose this life not because they so much wanted to but gave up their careers to take care of the kids. Some work or study from home juggling between kids and their work/studies, others with no particular occupation. And it is only human that some feel the sense of guilt of having to contribute nothing to the finances of the family with the … [Read more...]
where’d our money go?
2011 started with a blast on our expenses, I delivered via C-section (no need to tell you how much it cost us!) and as they all say "the expenses came one after the other after the baby came". Thanks to breastfeeding (and I really mean it!) because we were able to save a lot as compared to using formula, instead the budget was allocated for other needs like diaper, … [Read more...]