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How to Save for Your New House as a Family
All potential homeowners should consider saving at least some money when in the market for a new home. When considering how to save, there are many ways you can consider to plan or educate yourself on money saving tips and tricks. Knowledge about what it takes to finance a home is also extremely important for kids. Here are a few points you can discuss as a family.
What You Should Be Teaching Your Child About Mortgages
As your children continue to age, it is vital to start familiarizing them with critical financial concepts that will impact their future lives. One area that you should consider educating them in are mortgages and how they can help someone to buy a home. There are several tips that someone can follow that can help them to teach their kids more about mortgages, and set them up for financial security for the rest of their lives.
5 Useful Tips to Keep Pesky Pests Out of Your Home
From flies to mosquitoes, wasps, mice and more, there seems to be no end to the list of critters and pests trying to take up residence in your home. Some may be drawn into the house because of a food source, and others may be trying to seek shelter from unpleasant temperatures, rain or something else.
Tricks to Learn Better Saving Habits as a Family
Saving money is the first step to true financial freedom. You cannot live life financially free if you need to borrow money often or are creating more debt than you can pay off. The problem so many families have, is finding a way to save that works for them. There are so many different methods, and it sometimes takes learning the tips and tricks of the trade, trying, and failing a few times before you find a way to save as a family. If you’re in this together, you are more likely to succeed.
4 Skills You Should Be Teaching Your Children
There are so many things that children need to know as they grow up. It can seem overwhelming as their parent, especially when it comes to teaching them to be safe and responsible. Here are a few areas that you should be focusing on.
Tricks to Get Through a Financial Emergency as a Family
Good money management is the foundation of any successful family. You should always make withdrawals using money you already have, instead of money you haven’t earned yet. Most of us know the basics but putting good financial habits into practice is often a different story. Review several tips to help you overcome a family-wide financial emergency.
5 Ways to Get Your Kids Comfortable at the Dentist’s
No one likes to go to the dentist, but most adults understand that it’s necessary. The problem comes in for parents of young children. How do you relieve their fear of the dentist without misleading them?
How to Make Your Next Family Vacation a Breeze
There’s nothing like taking time for a relaxing vacation with your family. When it’s done right, you all create memories that last a lifetime. But vacations often become far more stressful than they should be, and much of that is because of poor planning. Here are a few of the top tips to help you plan a fantastic family vacation.
Big Spending: How to Begin Your Family’s Budgeting Journey
As daunting as the task may seem, building a family budget is important. Don’t complicate the task by trying to build a complicated spreadsheet, unless of course, you are an expert at this. Instead, old-fashioned paper and pencil can easily map the layout for your family budget. Below are five useful tips to help begin your family’s budgeting journey.
Five Home Apps Every Family Should be Using
Being a parent and homeowner is not easy. Raising a family takes a lot of work and responsibility and keeping up with regular home maintenance and repairs can quickly take a backseat to child-rearing and daily tasks. Luckily, there are quite a few tools available to help, and they fit perfectly in your palm. Here are five apps every family should be using.