We go back and forth about wanting to pay our kids each an allowance. They are five and three years old now and for the past year or so have both been receiving money regularly from one set of Grandparents at each holiday. I know we need to start them off young but considering I [...]
We attended a birthday party over the weekend where the room looked like a unicorn threw up. Seriously, the theme was everywhere ~ napkins, cups, plates, balloons, cake, etc. I commented on it to one of the other Moms and she said that the birthday girl got to look through the Birthday Express catalog and [...]
I’ve been thinking about money and kids and how to teach them the right way to handle their financial matters. They are young still but understand what money is - they know you need it to buy things, but they have gotten confused and when playing, offered to pay me to take something. LOL
They have [...]
Yesterday the kids started gymnastics classes. They are once a week (so technically 2 classes a week since there are two kids) and monthly cost $92.50.
For the past couple of weeks I have been feeling very guilty about spending that amount of money on something fun while we are trying to pay off credit cards.
But [...]