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10 Things to do on a Cheap Vacation.

This summer, my family took a six-day vacation. Technically, it was a “stay-cation”, but I hate that word. Our goal was a fun time, on a budget, for 3 kids-one, two, and nine-without driving the adults nuts. Obviously, if you’re not herding small children, some of these choices may not be for you.

Zoo. In St. Paul, [...]

Babies Are Expensive

From the comments here. The discussion is on how much it costs to have a baby. Edited for clarity.

Actual birthing costs vary. We’ve had three kids over ten years and birthing costs have varied from $250 out of pocket to $8500. Our highest and lowest price births were 20 months apart. The [...]

Birthday Parties are Evil

I hate birthday parties. Well, not all birthday parties. Not even most parties. Just the expensive-for-the-sake-of-expensive parties. The bar-raising parties. The status-boosting parties. I’m done.

My son is seven years older than my first daughter. In those seven years, with only one kid, we managed to spoil him regarding birthday parties. Every party was [...]

Allowance

Money-grubbersThis article on the Simple Dollar discusses raising kids to be financially responsible.

My wife and I have a goal to raise our kids to be more financially responsible than we have ever been. We are currently digging out of a financial hole we dug ourselves, which is a situation we hope our children never see.

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