by Elisabeth Donati | Dec 18, 2013
December 18, 2013 Happy Holidays! I’m currently in the Caribbean, about to be the matron of honor for the lady I stayed with a few years ago. She’s experiencing a lot of stress before the wedding and in a lot of pain. It is so interesting how we human...
by Elisabeth Donati | Sep 12, 2013
Because I am the proud owner of many financial education websites and several financial literacy blogs, I receive, almost weekly, requests from other website owners requesting that I post a link for their sites on my blogs and sites. My usual response back to them is,...
by Elisabeth Donati | Mar 25, 2013
By Jim Garnett, a/k/a Ask Mr.G, a member of the ICFE’s Board of Educational Advisors. As a veteran financial counselor I have counseled multiple hundreds of smart people with serious financial problems. These people had different incomes, different occupations,...
by Elisabeth Donati | Mar 8, 2013
Back by popular demand, parents this summer have the rare opportunity let someone else make sure their teens know exactly what it’s going to take to move out and live on their own. Most parents admit they wished they’d learned this stuff when before they moved out....
by Elisabeth Donati | Mar 7, 2013
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin The great Benjamin Franklin was a wise man, indeed. If he were alive today, he might very well say that an online savings account is the perfect way to teach teens about fiscal responsibility. Teaching...
by Elisabeth Donati | Feb 11, 2013
I’m in the market for a new bookkeeper for my boyfriend’s company, Creative Carpet Repair. He’s taken it, in less than three years, from a single man (him) operation where he ran around in his truck up and down Southern California to a full-fledged...