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Saving is FUN with Kidworth!

A few weeks ago I told you about Kidworth — a free service for parents to help teach children money management. I’ve had some time to try it out since then, and I’m really loving it. Here’s why. It actually makes saving FUN!

My kids love seeing how their savings are adding up. Nowadays, they are much more inclined to save towards a goal rather than flit their money away on crappy toys or junk food. And I feel like they are gaining an appreciate for what things are worth.

We set the two older kids up with 3 savings goals — a spend goal, a save goal and a give goal. The giving goals are both for our church offering. The kids get $5 a week for allowance, so they save $2 a month for the church offering. The save goal is for college. But the one they are all into is definitely the spend goal.

In the past, they’d mention something they wanted, and I would always say to save up for it. But it never happened. I realize now, I was kind of counting on that. Which is crazy-stupid! HELLO. I should have tried to help them achieve those goals.

With Kidworth, it’s easy because they can see it grow.

How cool is that?

You can add kid contributions, so any time they have allowance or monetary gifts they want to put towards a goal, you can easily record that. And you can invite friends or family to make contributions by sending a clever eCard with a link to the child’s Kidworth page — PERFECT for holiday gift giving!

The site is fairly easy to navigate, although I keep getting caught up when trying to add kid contributions and I have to start over from the Dashboard. Still, all in all, it’s very user friendly, and the kids love seeing their savings grow in a tangible way.

TRY IT!

Right now, Kidworth is offering one lucky Musings of a Housewife reader a $25 gift card to Kidworth. To be eligible, all you need to do is sign up for a Kidworth account and share one goal your children chose to create. Leave your answer in the comments.

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Disclosure: I am a paid ambassador for Kidworth. All experiences and opinions are, as always, my own.

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7 Responses

  1. I’m just curious… how do kids/parents add their allowance to Kidworth? My mum & I looked at the website and the ‘how it works’ section, and we couldn’t find that anywhere… is it through bank accounts? credit cards?

    1. YES! It took me a while to figure that out, which is what I was referring to when I said that I keep getting caught up when trying to add kid contributions. You have to to into one of their goals, and then there is a menu on the left with “kid contributions” to click on. That allows you to enter any amount of money you want – so it can be money they earn with allowance, or money they already have in a savings account.

  2. I was just thinking about the college goal. Your image shows $40K which is what I was figuring on. I’m glad my goal wasn’t too crazy!

    So far, I only set one goal for Matt – his college goal. I think I’ll set that for each kid and then talk to them about the other goals.

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