Topic “Manage Your Life”

By Amy Dunn (Raleigh News and Observer/SHNS)

“Fun Size” and “Mini” candies can take a huge bite out of the grocery budget. That’s scary.

Buying trick-or-treat candy can be, well, tricky.

If you’re like me, you want to be generous to the kids who ring your bell. But you don’t want your generosity to cost you a quarter of your weekly grocery budget either.

As a general...

By Jeannine Stein (Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Couples who rank money and things as important might be worse off in their relationships than those who aren’t as materialistic, a study finds.

Researchers discovered that it may be true what they say: Money can’t buy happiness. They surveyed 1,734 married couples across the U.S. about their attitudes toward relationship values and...

By Carol Biliczky (Akron Beacon Journal/MCT)

When Ron Levant was a semi-custodial father of a preteen daughter in the 1970s, he fumbled and stumbled. He admits he didn’t have a clue what to do.

That sense of inadequacy bothered him until he saw the 1979 movie “Kramer vs. Kramer” and realized that perhaps it wasn’t him — it was that men of his generation were being asked to do...

By Jessica Yadegaran (Contra Costa Times/MCT)

They have more nicknames than you can count. They have their own restaurant chain. And women spend more than $1 billion every year dressing them up even though they’re usually covered up.

The attention we give breasts borders on the obsessive. And in October — Breast Cancer Awareness Month — they’re especially everywhere. They’re on...

By Claudia Buck (Sacramento Bee/SHNS)

As the temperature drops and activities move inside, here are some new ways to entertain and enlighten your kids and teens.

How about some fun money lessons? Given Wall Street’s zany zigzagging and the relentless drumbeat of stories about debt and more debt, we’ve all been a little preoccupied with the ups and downs of finances lately....