The High Cost of A Cherry Popsicle (or The Lack of Healthcare Cost Transparency)
How much do these things cost? A trip to the ER, a pill and a Popsicle. No one seems to know and Jeff Bogle has a major problem with that.
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OWTK’s Helpful Idea #8 Remodeling Without Spending A Fortune
Can’t afford to gut the bathroom and remodel like a champ? I hear ya, us neither. That shit is eeeeeexpensive. But maybe you don’t have to spend thousands to make new a space in your home that is screaming out for a do-over. I’ve found that, in the bathroom for […]
Parenting Blog
It’s Not The Road For Us
Whatever I am, I happen to be of the opinion that my wife, my daughters, and myself holding hands, twirling, and wildly screaming along with Frank Turner’s “Photosynthesis” in the kitchen on a school night will carry my girls further in life than anything else ever could. Further than any school lesson. Any Facebook status update. Any politician’s promise. Any skin restoring face cream. Any college degree. Any. Damn. Thing.
Invest in Childhood
It’s 529 College Savings Day! Or Something
Oh how clever. The financial industry is jumping on the “day” bandwagon (see: National Pancake Day, Talk Like a Pirate, Waste An Entire Day On YouTube Day, etc.) by making today, 5/29, 529 College Savings Day. Seems like as good a day as any then to revisit my case AGAINST […]
Invest in Childhood
Not Saving For College on The Huffington Post
Thanks to the relative controversialality (made-up word) of my case against college savings, I have made it onto The Huffington Post frontpage. Surely CNN, Headline News, The New York Times, and The White House aren’t far behind. You read OWTK, so you’ve read it already, but would you fancy reading […]
Parenting Blog
Kids, Money, and Virtual Piggy
For as long as we’ve been having two-way conversations with our children, my wife and I have been very forthright with them both about most things in life, money included. Whether it is donating it, saving it, spending it extravagantly, or spending it to put food on the table and […]
Parenting Blog
My Kid’s Clothing Strategy
What do we know about kids and their clothing? They grow out of stuff in the blink of an eye. They get their threads incredibly dirty. They want to wear only their favorite ensembles. With these facts in mind, here’s my quick & easy kid clothing strategy going forward: Buy […]
Frugal Fun For Kids
You Didn’t Miss Halloween, You’re Just Super Early
Halloween 2012 is almost here. Okay, not really. But the deals on costumes and accessories might be too good to pass up. The savings on Halloween digs might be too attractive to turn away from even though it’s 350+ days in advance of the next time it’ll be acceptable to […]
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