August 25th, 2010 by Astri

How big is the money influence in your life? Money has a great benefit to humans, ranging from factors of power, self-confidence until the safety factor. Even the harmony of the couple relationship can also depend on financial conditions. The family’s finance definitely has own problems. Now, we will talk about the family’s finance complaints and how to overcome them.

When You Do Not Have a Money To Do All The Things You Like

Very annoying if you cannot do everything that you like just because of a lack of money. However, you must be realistic. To resolve this complaint, try to speak from heart to heart with your spouse. Remember your primary target in life. By considering the main target that you want to achieve, at least you begin to control your desire. Thus, automatically you will restrict your finances for unimportant things. It’s better if you have separate accounts for some needs. You can create a joint account for family purposes by specifying a certain amount, including for payment of bills and retirement savings. Then create a separate account for personal purposes. Thus the conflict about money will be easily avoided.
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March 19th, 2010 by Astri

Whether we realize it or not, sometimes you as a parent give the wrong idea to your children about managing money. Although you have the good intentions, but sometimes your ideas or opinions are actually making the children often use the money for things that may not be so important. Perhaps the tips below will help you and your children to manage the money.

Understanding

If you take the kids out to shopping, and they ask to buy a toy, while you do not have much budget for it, you can give them understanding about the value of the money in your child. If you would prefer to buy new clothes instead of toys for them, you can explain to them why you bought new clothes and not a new toy. This is very related to the level of needs that should take precedence. Make the children understand about this.

Needs, Wants and Price

Buying based on the need and buying based on the desire is something different . Not to mention the price issue. You can explain to your child about the different prices for similar goods. If you can buy the same goods at a lower price, you certainly can still save money for other needs. In addition, you can also teach your children to save the rest of the money.
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