A Wrote: Thank you so much for all of your great work you’ve done to help people everywhere especially the young women. I’m a mother and wife with two sons under the age of 4. Our househo...
I love entertaining. And I love to cook. If I show up to your house, you can bet dogs to donuts that I’ll bring food. In my little town, when we have parties everybody brings something so it’s more a...
We all have things we do routinely to which we never give a second thought. It’s the magazine we pick up at that check-out counter, the cup of coffee we grab on the way to work, the candy bar we buy ...
Last Fall I created a brouhaha around Credit Education Week and asked y’all to jump on the bandwagon. It was all about changing the use of the credit score in Canada, and holding lenders accountable ...
Chapter 4: A Matter of Routine (Part 2) Steve from “Blue’s Clues” taught Malcolm to draw. He watched religiously, knew much of the dialogue by heart and studied every line Steve drew in his “Handy Da...
The Baby Boomers have finally gotten old enough to officially retire. Well some of them anyway. The peak of Boomer retirement won’t happen for another 14 years or so. I was born in the year that the ...
It’s official… it’s time to put the garden in. Living in Canada means we pay big bucks for fruits and veggies during the winter. I cringe as I plunk down $4 for a small container of grape tomatoes. S...
Sometimes finding the money to save means changing how you think about spending. People have been keeping up with the Joneses for so long that the idea of not keeping up is impossible to even imagine...
Chapter Four: A Matter of Routine (Part 1) Malcolm, like many other children with Asperger’s Syndrome, often displays an intense, even obsessive, focus on the things he’s interested in, while virtual...
One of the most hotly debated issues when it comes to kids and their allowances is the idea of what an allowance should be tied to. Most people have no difficultly with the idea that before kids can ...
Just before Christmas last year, a young friend of mine (she’s just turned 21) sent me a link to an article about the difference between a Lady and a Gentlewoman and said she had thought of me. I rea...
Women spend a fortune to be beautiful: as a group we blow about $7 billion dollars a year trying to look good… or maybe just look better. Individually, we’re spending about $600 a year on average. Fr...
I recently got a letter that made me cringe. There is a pyramid scheme running rampant through my hometown at this moment (called L.I.F.E. or Living Intentionally For Excellence). Even my own husband...
Chapter 3: My Life (at 10 years old) I have a great life I get up at 6 a.m. and play on the computer for an hour. Then I bounce my ball, have breakfast and go to school. That part I don’t like so muc...
A Wrote: My father passed away about a year and a half ago and I have since found out that I will be inheriting 1 million dollars. My husband and I have been discussing how to go about making this wo...
Years ago I had dinner in a little restaurant on King Street in Toronto where they served the most wonderful sweet-potato stuffed ravioli. When I eat something delicious, I inevitably try to reverse-...
Are you ready to tell your mommy just how wonderful she is? Ya better be since Mom’s Day is this weekend. That’s, of course, if you have a great mommy. For those that don’t, good luck hiding from Mot...
People are always looking for ways to short-cut. Lazeee! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked to create an app. Hey, I’m not about short-cuts when it comes to managing money. I’m about bei...
Chapter Two — A Strong Silent Boy (Part 2) Once I discovered the holes in Malcolm’s language I set to work. For the category word problem, I cut out hundreds and hundreds of little pictures and...
If you work all week – be it on the road, in an office, or hauling kids hither and yon – you might see the weekend as your opportunity to kick back, forget about rules and schedules, and splurge a li...
Having children fundamentally changed who I was. It’s no surprise really? The things you must learn to do as a parent to help raise happy and well-adjusted children means you’re running up a very ste...
Your mortgage is likely the single largest debt you’ll every take on. And if you take a mortgage for $300,000 at an average rate of 5% and pay it off over 35 years you’ll end up paying $331,789.91 in...
Over and over people tell me that they’re “just not good with numbers.” The numbers don’t mean anything to them. One dollar, $10, $100, $1000, a million? Is it just a bunch of extra zeros tack on? Ma...
Chapter Two — A Strong Silent Boy (Part 1) When I found out Malcolm had Asperger’s Syndrome, I just about flipped a kidney. Man, was I scared. I wondered what I could possibly have done to make...
Every step you take to save – money or the environment – is a step in the right direction. And they don’t have to be giant steps. Just a shuffle in the right direction gets you on the Green Road to S...
I’m a chocoholic. And there are times of the month when I crave chocolate like a drug. I’ve learned that if I don’t satisfy the craving quickly, I do myself more harm than good. I can try substitutin...
Do you know what Americans spent on pet food in 2010? Go ahead, guess. According to the American Pet Products Association, critters ate up more than $18 billion dollars worth a food last year. Holy M...
There’s a lot of blah blah blah about how many people are at risk because even a small increase in interest rates will create havoc in their budgets and their lives. (I’ll bet most of those people do...
Chapter One — Thinking Differently Note to readers: When I started this book, Malcolm was 10. I wanted to write from both our perspectives so I alternated voices. This is the first chapter that...
I’ve received a lot of requests from people who want to work from home but just don’t know how to go about finding that job or business opportunity. I asked Angela Wills if she’d sh...
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