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- The Simple Dollar recommends holding monthly family financial meetings with your partner. These meetings "... let us constantly be a check against one another, making sure we both stick to our better behaviors and use each other as an inspiration for making good choices," Trent Hamm writes.And if you've got kids, he says, include them if they're over age 7.
- Need a reason to delve into the reasons why you spend money? Savingadvice.com has a whole slew of them, including guilt, shame and laziness.
- Fivecentnickel has given allowances for kids a lot of thought, and it's worth a read. Instead of just giving kids an allowance to spend as they'd like, break it down into spending money, long-term savings and charity. The kind of thing we're supposed to do as adults.
- If you've got pets, then you know pet sitting or boarding adds up fast when you go away for trips. Queercents has some good advice for finding affordable pet care options and for making sure you're getting what you pay for when you do opt for boarding.
- And our own Jessica Ashley on Healthy Living has some wise words and an Om Moment suggestion if all of this money think gets to be a bit much this weekend.
