The best lesson we taught our daughters was how to budget their money. At the time they were 15 years old and 8 years old. Our approach wasn’t anything elaborate or special; it was very simple and very effective. It was a combination of basic mathematics and tough love. When we started this lesson, both…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
What Will We Learn From the State Of This Economy
The economy is in the toilet. If you are at least 40 years old and grew up in a middle or lower income family, more than likely you know that your parents and grandparents did more with less. They had less income and less credit. They knew the value of a dollar and they knew…
Domestic Abuse – My Two Cents Worth
What causes domestic abuses? Why do the abused stay with the abuser? These are questions that are not easily answered and are hard for most of us to understand. Domestic abuse in not a new phenomena, it’s been a problem forever. It’s only been in recent decades that laws have been passed to attempt to…
Happy Birthday To Me
Today is my birthday and I am thinking back over my life and taking a look at where I am today. What Would I Change I often hear people talk about what they would change if they could go back in time. I’ve given some thought to that question and I keep coming up with…