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Archive for April, 2009

Tackling the Cost of College on One Income

April 15th, 2009 | Add a Comment »

This week a reader contacted me with a question regarding how to tackle the cost of college on just one income. Her son has just finished with college and now her daughter really wants to go to a 4 year university this August. (more…)

So, what was so “Great” about the Depression?

April 7th, 2009 | Add a Comment »

That was the question my girls posed to my own parents this past weekend. The economy, the past recessions and the mother of all depressions, the Great Depression are being discussed in almost every grade and every classroom at school these days. (more…)

USA Weekend recommends Money Savvy Pig

April 5th, 2009 | Add a Comment »

The Sunday paper is very good to us today! Take a look at the great article in USA Weekend today, April 5, 2009, under ParentSmart — Raising frugal kids: A timely lesson — by Clarie Green, president of Parents’ Choice Foundation.

The Money Savvy Pig is referred to as a “update on a classic piggy bank.” Go to www.msgen.com to see one for yourself!

Millionaire Kids Club books recommended by Washington Post Michelle Singletary

April 5th, 2009 | Add a Comment »

Michelle Singletary, Color of Money columnist for the Washington Post, recommends our Millionaire Kids Club books as a great way to teach kids about money. Read about how her own two kids loved these books!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR2009040400076.html