Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 In a world full of buy now, pay now shopping options, knowing how to save is a superpower. With World Savings Day coming up on Friday, let's get into how you can help young people learn to stash cash and grow the money they set aside. With practice, they'll be well on their way to building financial security and,...
14 days ago • 4 min read
Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 Kids and teens are awash in ads, and sometimes they don't even know it. Advertising can take the form of an influencer post or be embedded in unboxing videos and in-app purchases. The marketing messages young people are exposed to do more than promote products. They also shape what they think they need to buy to be...
21 days ago • 3 min read
Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 Let's dig into what the value of money really means in today's tap-to-pay world. With kids rarely handling cash these days, do they really understand what that $20 grandma sent them via Venmo is worth? According to the data point below, not so much... Money Stat 72% Apple Pay, Cash App, Venmo, Zelle — these are just...
27 days ago • 3 min read
Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 It seems like retailers are rolling out deals for the holidays earlier and earlier, with the first full week of October featuring offerings from Target, Walmart, and Amazon Prime, just to name a few. At a time when everyday essentials cost more than they used to and the impact of tariffs on holiday shopping looms...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 Despite the uncertainty of tariffs, and an economy that has barely added any jobs in recent months, stocks keep going up and to the right. In fact, they hit record highs this month. Americans now have more money in stocks than ever before, which means it's likely they're getting investing advice from someone — or...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 Consumers these days are left to face a stark truth: Relief from the rising cost of food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare doesn't appear to be in sight. This data point about car loans speaks to just one way the cost of living is squeezing many Americans... Money Stat 84 That's how many months...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 All of the talk of the Federal Reserve meeting this week has me thinking about interest rates. The Fed is widely expected to cut rates, a move that has the potential to affect everything from mortgages to credit card bills. But while adults are on Fed watch, the data point below highlights that most teens don't know...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 Well, clearly I'm not one of the Powerball winners. So let's just jump right into this data point about impulse buying, which is something lottery winners know all about... Money Stat 50% Grocery stores go out of their way to trigger impulse buying by offering free food samples and stocking tempting snacks in the...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Dollars, Cents, and Confidence Weekly tips for the grown-ups shaping youth into financially savvy adults Hey there! It's Talk About Money Tuesday, your favorite day of the week! 🤑 Labor Day is behind us (hope you had a good one!), but I'd like to keep the conversation about work going. Let's take a look at this data point related to job hunting... Money Stat 49% Companies turn off a lot of potential applicants when they're not up front about what a job pays. SurveyMonkey conducted a 2025...
2 months ago • 2 min read