When should you do a budget check up? Around this time of year is especially good. Every year, millions of households file their federal tax returns. For many, the process involves digging through shoe boxes or manila folders full of receipts; gathering mortgage, retirement, and investment account statements; and relying on computer software to take…
Basic skills and attitudes form early and lay the foundation for later financial well-being. When children are ages 3 to 5, help them learn to stay focused, make plans, follow directions, complete tasks, and solve problems. Help your child build key skills with: Building money habits and values Kids in middle childhood begin to absorb…
A financially successful marriage does not happen by default. Managing your finances well as an individual is already a challenging task for most people, so when you add the emotions, habits, wants, wishes and desires of another person into the mix, the complexity increases exponentially. Money can be the source of great tension in an…