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Money in Marriage

The concern for many today is ‘Money, money, money’ to quote the Abba song. Yes we saw Mamma Mia a few weeks back, can you tell? With the current economic situation the way it is a lot of people are worried about money, coping with day to day expenses and the prices of basic items rising all the time, banks looking shaky and the share market in a slump. As well as those struggling to support families, it also affects those with retirement funds and investments as they see what they thought was a retirement nest egg shrinking before their … Continue reading →

Teaching Our Kids Fiscal Responsibility

Do you remember getting an allowance as a child? I remember my parents forking over the cash but don’t really remember earning it. I also remember that I spent it as fast as I could get it and didn’t learn much about money management along the way. I wasn’t alone. Many, perhaps most, of the x-generation grew up without a financial clue. Money was a topic our parents considered private and definitely inappropriate dinner conversation. In Home Economics, the closest thing related to economics of any kind was how to write a check! To make matters worse, most of us … Continue reading →