This guest post is contributed by Omar Adams, he writes on the topic of online accounting degrees . He welcomes your comments at his email id: omaradams47@gmail.com. It’s one of the basic necessities needed for life, but for most of us, clothing has become an excess that we spend too much on. We have closets of clothes, most of which we buy on a whim and never use...

It is indeed a challenge to teach children to learn how to save money.  Finally after some trial and error with my eldest daughter, I have learned that the best way to teach children is by practice and this would entail you– the parent to entrust your children some cash at their own disposal in the beginning. My eldest daughter is now 9.  She has a fixed...

This transplanted contributor lives to travel and thinks Venice is a treasure beyond descriptive words. Pedestrian Florence is a very close second favorite. Rome deserves another visit, if the only to people-watch! She now lives 3 blocks away from the mall that once was the biggest in the entire world…the northern frozen world, anyway. If you are lucky...

As a mother of four children, separated and all, I take my responsibilities seriously.  At an early age, I wanted my children to be aware of money; How to keep money; How to spend wisely; And how to make more money.  I have discussed previously the benefits of discussing your money issues with your children.  I have a 5 and 7 year old and  they are both in school...

Like alot of Finance Bloggers, I also encourage the use of the “envelope system.” The envelope system is a budgeting method wherein your spending money is divided into budgeting categories and cash is designated for each category. I use an small accordion envelope for this purpose. But if you do not use cash, but use debit or credit cards, then Money...