Tiffany Raiford

Tiffany Raiford is a lifelong Floridian, wife to my high school sweetheart and mother of four littles (two girls and boy/girl twins...no, they are not identical and yes, I'm sure). My kids love to whine, so I love to wine. My loves include nap time, bed time, date night, travel and evenings and weekends when my husband is home because he handles all diaper changes.

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  • in How to Save Money

    Smart Ways to Save Money on Back To School Clothes for the Kids

    Back-to-school shopping – it’s not for the weak. I said this a few weeks ago on Facebook. My husband and I had already experienced a day of back-to-school shopping with our big girls. It’s our third year of it with our oldest, but she’s easy and so is shopping for one. Now she’s in second […] More

  • in Parenting

    Advice For Parenting Tweens that Worked on Your Toddler

    Toddlers; they’re kind of evil, really cute and very hard to be mad at in comparison to tweens. For example, when my then 3-year-old overheard the contractors working on our bathrooms using language that began with an “F” and ended with a “You” and promptly repeated it to us, we were torn as to whether […] More

  • in Taxes

    Tax Breaks Freelancers Should Take Advantage of This Year

    Taxes; everyone hates them. There seems to be no real reason that anyone would appreciate handing over a sizable chunk of their hard-earned income to the government every year, and that’s all right. We can all hate it, as long as we continue to pay them. Taxes are probably the biggest drawback to the freelance […] More

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    How You Can Save Money with Your Cell Phone Plans

    Considering how frequently the vast majority of us use our cell phones and all that we can actually do with them, the price we pay for them is actually pretty insignificant. However, it’s still expensive. For a while I was paying over $400 per month for a plan with four lines. It’s a much more […] More

  • in Personal Finance

    Five Times Hunting for Deals Actually Costs You Money

    It doesn’t matter how much money you have in the bank, savings is savings. We all want to save on specific items that we purchase, and there is nothing wrong with that. Some like to save because it’s responsible spending and others like to save because they work regularly with a tight budget. It doesn’t […] More

  • in Parenting

    10 Ways To Not Lose Yourself in Parenthood

    My husband and I were celebrating my birthday in Hawaii back in 2007 when he looked at me in a champagne-haze and uttered the phrase, “I’m so happy with you, but if you woke up tomorrow and said you wanted to have a baby with me, I’d be so happy.” What a waste of a […] More

  • in Parenting

    10 Strange Skills You Develop as a Parent

    School started for my kids last week and it was the best week of my life. Okay, not the best week of my life, but pretty darn close. It was, however, the best week of my 1-year-old twin’s lives. They are blissfully free of the over-abundance of sometimes painful and questionable “love” given to them […] More

  • in Parenting

    The Hardest Truths We Have To Teach Our Children

    My little girl, my second little love, began VPK this year. She’s four-and-a-half, and she’s spunky. She’s exceptionally stubborn, she likes things done very precisely and she is not a fan of change. No, that’s not truthful of me. She hates change. If she catches me with her bedroom furniture moved so that I can […] More

  • in Parenting

    10 Things My Kids Have Totally Wrong

    I’m just going to come right out and say it; kids are kind of dumb. It never ceases to amaze me how little tiny humans can be so intelligent and insightful and yet still so stupid. I mean, really; it’s kind of embarrassing. For example, my best friend/cousin-in-law and I walk each night around the […] More

  • in Lifestyle

    An Open Letter to All You Teenage Girls At the Swimming Pool

    Self-respect is a beautiful thing. Perhaps you’re too young or too busy to realize this just yet, but I can assure you that when you behave with self-respect and dignity, you are all the better for it. The beauty of our country is that we can wear what we want, express our individuality in ways […] More

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