I’ve suggested taking the money my children would have spent on a gift for us and making an extra credit card payment with it.

DEAR ABBY: I have a 7-year-old great-granddaughter, “Emma.” She’s beautiful, smart, happy and just wonderful. Her dad, my ...

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I went for our annual checkups seven months ago. We were both overweight and told by our respective ...

Now that my children are out of the nest, and we are in a stage of our lives where we want to begin paring down our material possessions, ...