Steve and Annette's Blog Articles

Question: I was wondering how you deal with kids and technology, particularly cell  phones and texting. I remember reading in your books that you do not allow texting at the dinner table, but how does your family deal with kids and cell phone plans, etc? Thanks so much!!

Answer: You ask a great question and we actually answered it in our upcoming book The MoneySmart Family System. So we’ll give you a preview here:

Question: One of our cats got really sick and we tried to help her, but she finally had to be put to sleep. The vet bills added up to a couple of thousand dollars, which we didn’t have.  She’s gone, we’ve grieved, and now we’re struggling to make the payments each month. Do you have any advice to pet lovers?

In our book, Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half, we chronicled Steve’s test of weighing more than 200 pounds of produce to determine if bulk packed or loose produce was a better deal. We discovered savings as high as 54 percent! You can read the results here if you’re a website subscriber.

We had just completed a Once-A-Month cooking day (website subscribers can read more here) where Annette (with help from the rest of us) prepares between 10 and 17 dinner meals which we store in the freezer for use later in the month. On Once-A-Month cooking day, Annette gets the night off from preparing dinner (after preparing so many meals, she deserves a break . . .