by Teri Cettina | Sep 17, 2012 | Budgeting
I know fall is just beginning, but my mind is edging toward winter. Why? I’m reviewing our family savings and looking at how much we’ve saved to buy heating oil. (We still have an oil furnace). And I don’t want a repeat of what happened last winter. There was a day,...
by Teri Cettina | Feb 3, 2012 | Budgeting, Food & Groceries, Frugality
I’m over at Equifax.com’s new family money blog today talking about the link between losing weight and saving money. Believe it or not, the two have lots of similarities—and not just in how hard they are to do! I noticed the connection when I joined Weight Watchers a...
by Teri Cettina | Nov 18, 2011 | Budgeting
My latest project: Un-budgeting. What does that mean? Un-complicating our family finances a little. I happen to be a very, um, detailed person about our family budget. So over the years, I have dived into it deeper and deeper, creating categories for everything under...
by Teri Cettina | Aug 24, 2011 | Budgeting, College, Kids
If you’ve got kids in high school or college, you’re facing the same unpleasant expense we are: Buying textbooks. As if tuition wasn’t already high enough, you also have to pay for books. Expensive books. That are used for only a few months. And get quickly dinged up....
by Teri Cettina | Feb 14, 2011 | Budgeting, Kids
When she turned 13, our oldest daughter stopped getting an allowance. Instead, we put her “on salary.” She gets a lot more money than ever before. She loves that. She’s also responsible for more of her own expenses than ever before. Her dad and I...
by Teri Cettina | Nov 5, 2010 | Budgeting, Kids, Travel
Our family hasn’t been to Walt Disney World yet (since we’re on the West Coast), but when we do, we’ll be taking a copy of my friend Kate Reilly’s book with us. It’s Walt Disney World Resort Extreme Vacation Guide for Kids. Read about it...
