How do you talk to your kids about money? Best selling personal finance author David Bach says it’s never too early to teach them the value of money, and that includes how to earn it, save it, and give some of it away.
DENISE: Hi, there. I’m Denise Richardson for howdini.com. Teaching kids the value of a dollar seems to [...]

From tanning to owning a pet, blogging to being a hipster, here, the costs of it all.
What It Costs to Be …
A Tanorexic

Tanning-bed membership: $200/month
SPF lip balm: $24/year
UV-activated tooth whitener: $50/month
Tan extender: $300/year
Exfoliating scrubs, bronzers, and self-tanners: $360/year
Spray-tanning sessions: $75/month
Emergency dry cleaning of white shirts: $20/month

ANNUAL COST: $4824
A Hipster

Asymmetrical [...]

5 Secrets of the Highest-Paid Women. The top-paid women share their secrets for success.
1. Always be yourself.
Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo’s Indian-born chief executive and the nation’s top-earning female CEO, wore traditional saris to her early job interviews. These days she routinely wears them to corporate events.
2. Your name is your brand, so guard it with your life.
“I [...]

3 Smart Strategies for Frequent Fliers.
With the economy in the toilet, odds are your company isn’t about to splurge on first-class seats and penthouse suites–you’re flying coach like the rest of us, kid.
Nancy Keates, author of The Wall Street Journal Guide to the Business of Life, shares the inside scoop on scoring CEO-style perks.
1. Nab the [...]

Alex Poltorak prepares a hydroponic food-growing system for the rooftop of “The Plant.” A former meatpacking facility in Chicago, The Plant is being deconstructed and transformed into a net-zero-energy vertical farm.
Its roof is the site of Poltorak’s first gig; his business, Urban Canopy, turns city roofs into farms.
Poltorak wants to shorten the distance food travels “from farm to fork,” he [...]