Convenience Can Be Costly This Article is About: Medical Service, Health Care Service, Credit Cards You’ve just opened your credit card bill and attached to your statement you find a “convenience check” included. It may already be filled out with a dollar amount such as $300, $500, or even $1,000....
Beware of Falling Minimum Payments This Article is About: Credit Report, Credit Card Debt If you opened a credit card statement recently and were pleasantly surprised to find that your minimum payment due was lowered, don’t be so quick to “jump for joy”. What may appear as a small boost ...
Shadow Fun Are you looking for fun projects to do, but are short on supplies? The answer is simple: Shadows! Shadow Tag Turn an ordinary walk to the mailbox into a lively game of shadow tag. It’s played much t...
Summer Anti-Boredom List This Article is About: Medical Service, Health Care Service, Coffee Shop Before summer vacation turns into a boredom fest, sit down as a family and make a summer anti-boredom list. Write down a mixture of long overdue chores that you’ve been meaning to get done, along wit...
Women and Men: Never The Twain Shall Meet "Dear Happy Guy, "I just don't understand men. Last night I was sitting at the kitchen table, when my husband wandered by with a glass in his hand. "I asked him, 'Is that a triple-coconut-cream-of...
Clutter Is Natural This Article is About: Medical Service, Health Care Service, Credit Cards Nature loves clutter. Just think of all the stuff that drops from trees, washes in on the tide, or is blown by the wind into your backyard. Birds molt, animals shed, snakes slither out of their skin,...
Hula Hoop Hoopla Which favorite toy pastime is fun for all ages and makes adults nostalgic for their childhood? Hula-hooping, of course! Stock up on inexpensive hula hoops and try your hand…er, hips…at these silly ga...
5 Ways To Tell If A Preschooler Is Living In Your House 1. You reheated the same cup of coffee three times this morning. 2. There is always one more person in your bed in the morning, than there was the night before. 3. You can’t imagine life without the ...
Scrapbooking Teen Memories This Article is About: Family Vacation, Family Vacations, First Date By the time your teen is in high school, you probably aren't taking as many pictures of them as you used to. I have to keep reminding myself that I only have a couple of years left and no time to was...
Family Memory Journal This Article is About: Health Care Services, Health Care, Health Care Service A family memory journal is a fun, easy way to preserve family memories. A couple of years ago I was sorting through a pile of unused journals (many given to me as presents!) and was trying to come up...
Television - The Great SATAN! I’ve often thought that in 6 million years, archaeologists will marvel at the devotion the 21st century Earthlings had to their household gods. Excavation will show these deities in virtually every h...
How Many Sex Offenders Live On Your Block? For any parent, learning that a convicted sex offender lives on the same block, can be a chilling discovery. The thought of it alone, can be disturbing. Most parents can't imagine that someone, w...
Musical Activities for Guaranteed Fun Music has the power to calm, sooth, energize and make everyone have fun! Try these ideas at your child's next play date or sleepover for a guaranteed good time. 1. Jamming Art: Turn on some music-up...
The Neurotic Dogs This Article is About: Black Hair When pondering whether my neurosis is learned or genetic, I often turn to the family dogs, Frazier (9) and Jake (4), and see the likelihood of a learned origin. My parents' characteristic anxiety has...
Fun & Healthy Snacks for Kids Looking for a quick and healthy snack for the kids? Here are a few tasty ideas that you can surprise them with, or let them make on their own. 1. Bugs On A Log: They'll love it just for the name! Si...
101 Uses for Dirty Diapers This Article is About: Medical Service, Health Care Service As the father of a toddler, I am an expert on dirty diapers. I know exactly what to do with them: throw them out! But along comes a New York waste company and a town in California who want me to do ...
Saving Money By Spending Wisely This Article is About: Real Estate, E Business, Making More Money Why is it that the older and richer people become, the more conservative they are with their money? Have you ever done or know someone who has made an investment that promised a 10% interest or profi...
The Red Balloon of Happiness This Article is About: E Store Just when you think you know it all, some 17-month old child comes along and teaches you another valuable life lesson. Little Lady lost her favorite ball. There are few things that bring this 17-mon...
