Lessons in Back-to-School Shopping: How to Keep Your Spending in Check

Lessons in Back-To-School Shopping

It’s that time of year again. The time retailers (and our bank accounts) know that we’re gearing up to spend in droves. Back-to-school shopping is second only to the December holidays when it comes to spending. We are set to throw down more than $600 per family this summer on clothes, electronics, books and other [...]

Degrees of Happiness: The Emotional Benefits of Higher Education

Degrees of Happines-The REAL COST of LIVING

Exclusive excerpt from The REAL COST of LIVING (Perigee/Penguin) by Carmen Wong Ulrich. Whether you’re considering a degree, or another degree, for yourself or you’re peering into what looks like a prohibitively expensive future education for your kids, it’s not just personal fulfillment that can reduce the cost of a degree, but the fact that [...]

The Baby Weight: Stay at Home or Go Back to Work?

The Baby Weight

Exclusive excerpt from The REAL COST of LIVING (Perigee/Penguin) by Carmen Wong Ulrich. Weighing the costs of staying at home vs. going back to work should be personal. Weigh your sanity and happiness against and alongside the financial repercussions of taking time to stay home. Calculate just what an unpaid twelve-week (federally mandated for most [...]

How Bad Personal Habits Cost You

RealCost

Carmen Wong Ulrich on the financial perils of smoking and being overweight. For more fantastic MamiTV videos and content, visit Mamiverse.com!