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By Catherine McManus, Associate Director of Marketing Communications, Women & Co.

Planning a vacation? It's easy for travel expenses to get out of control without setting up a few ground rules for how and where you'll be spending your cash before you take off. Here are seven...

By Catherine McManus, Associate Director of Marketing Communications, Women & Co.

In a recent blog post, I shared the story of Aimee Ross, a Manhattan mom who would never have guessed that her daughter Nicole's natural talent would take her all the way to...

By Catherine McManus, Associate Director of Marketing Communications, Women & Co.

Congratulations! You've made it through the first few months of caring for a newborn. You no longer check on your child every five minutes to make sure she's still breathing, you've built up enough...

For Women & Co., by Helen Jane Hearn, HelenJane.com

I give host gifts as a token of my appreciation for an invitation to an event hosted by friends. These gifts are always fun for me to select, as they fall outside the...

For Women & Co., by Helena Stone, ChipChick.com

A trip to the beach is one of the most enjoyable luxuries of summer. But the sun, surf, and sand can easily turn it into a nightmare for your expensive tech equipment. Here are some must-have affordable accessories I love...

For Women & Co., by Erin Rooney Doland, Unclutterer.com

Over the past few years, I've been able to save a good amount of money on services I need through daily deal sites like Groupon, LivingSocial, Google Offers, Amazon...

For Women & Co. by Meg Keene, APracticalWedding.com

When I talk to other small business owners about vacations, they often say, "I can't afford to go on vacation." And it's not just the cost of a trip that's scary, but the fear of leaving...

By Dawn McAvoy, Chief Marketing Officer, Women & Co.

You researched. You budgeted. You registered your kids for camp when there was still a chill in the air and you paid for camp before your kids even stepped foot near it. So now it's time to sit back,...

By Debbie DiVito, CPA, Content Manager, Women & Co.

It's trite, but it's true: As women, we wear many different hats. Off the top of my head, I can think of five: Employee. Fiancée. Daughter. Yoga enthusiast. Friend. And those are just the first that come to...

By Jacqueline Cadogan, Marketing Operations Manager, Women & Co.

What would you do with an extra ten minutes today? What about an hour? We all know time is a precious gift. No matter how we spend them, the hours, minutes and seconds seem to fly. As a...

By Catherine McManus, Associate Director of Marketing Communications, Women & Co.

"Mommy, what's a maiden?"

Kelly Holdcraft, mom of two very inquisitive -- and tech-savvy -- boys, was stumped when her 10-year-old emerged from the basement after playing video games asking her a seemingly out-of-the-blue question. Confused, she...

For Women & Co., by Lauren Hall

Maybe you're a consummate urbanite who doesn't own a car, or perhaps you simply want to do a road trip with a newer, larger vehicle. Either way, renting can be an option this summer when you're ready to hit the open...

For Women & Co., by Brooke Salkoff, CEO of CampEasy

Last May, I got an email that turned me into a ball of tears: after struggling for months to piece together a summer camp schedule for my two kids, ages 7 and 9, the camp we...

By Cassandra Paré, Marketing Manager, Women & Co.

If you lie flat on your back in the grass in Tocumwall, Australia, you will see so many stars in the sky that within minutes you will probably catch one darting by. Once you try tapas in Barcelona, you...

For Women & Co., by Kim O'Donnel, www.kimodonnel.com

Once the bastion of health food stores and food co-ops, organic food has gone from rarefied to mainstream. In the 10 years since the green "USDA organic" seal began appearing on supermarket shelves, the word "organic" has...

For Women & Co. by Jonathan Clements, Director of Financial Education, Citi Personal Wealth Management

You put in long hours and hard work to build your business -- and it's easy to neglect your personal finances. But that could be a huge mistake. Consider five key issues:

Financial...

By Debbie DiVito, Content Manager, Women & Co.

In a Women & Co. blog post last month, I posed the question "Should I sign a prenup?" I didn't know the answer, so I went to the experts to find out. I spoke with...

By Lauren Coulston, Integration Manager, Women & Co.

In today's economic climate, corporations are leveraging limited resources while nonprofits are being stretched for resources like never before. These two challenges intersect at the point of skills-based volunteering. What is skills-based volunteering? It is an innovative approach that...

For Women & Co., by Jody DeVere, AskPatty.com

Do-it-yourself (DIY) car care is catching on as a way to save money on routine service visits to mechanics, and that's a good thing. Doing your own maintenance isn't just good for your wallet, but it helps you...

For Women & Co. by Jonathan Clements, Director of Financial Education, Citi Personal Wealth Management

Students take all kinds of things to college with them, including laptop computers, smart phones, mini-refrigerators and microwaves. But perhaps the most useful item -- and potentially the most financially dangerous...