South Florida on the Cheap

We’re not thinking much about Halloween yet, but the National Retail Federation says many people are. The group’s annual survey says Americans plan to spend an average of $66.28 per person this year for Halloween, up from $56.31 last year.

No one we know plans to spend nearly that much, but that doesn’t mean we can’t [...]

When I was a little girl, once or twice a year we’d get a big box of clothes in the mail from friends of my parents who had daughters slightly older than my sister and I.

My parents would be thrilled, thinking of all the money they’d saved on kids’ clothes. I was less enthusiastic until [...]