Digital cameras are everywhere. Even cell phones can be used to snap photos.

The side effect of this amazing technology is we don’t have the chance to display the photos – each and every one of them.

Reasons?

To be fair, even though we’d have printed them all, where do we hang them? Our little house has definitely insufficient space. Never mind about the costs.

Worry not, there’s a solution. We can solve this by using one of the many digital photo frames.

You upload a collection of digital photos to the memory of the digital photo frame. The pictures are displayed automatically and changed based on a time interval set by you.

Isn’t that cool? Now you can display all your photos with just one photo frame.

A quick check at Amazon.com reveals that the price range is from $70 to $200. Sounds expensive but this seems like a more practical solution.

Not only that, digital photo frame makes a perfect gift too.

Many say parenting is tough job.

Don’t take it too seriously and give yourself a break by watching this hilarious video.

"Mommy caught naughty Baby Maybelline red-handed going through her make up drawer. The kid got powder, eye shadow, and lipstick all over her face. Sitting on the floor in her mess, singing her sad song, the brat wonders how mom’s going to punish her this time."

Poor Maybelline...wonder what will her mother get her after this.

Watch: Baby Maybelline

Call me cheapskate, I don't really spend much on my children. Even when my wife and I buy toys or clothes for them, we think REAL hard.

Okay, to be fair, we do spend on items that we think are important like books. But not thousands of dollars on your child’s first and second birthdays.

Are you spending too much on your children and sacrifice your own needs like retirement?

If you are, you may want to do something about it. Trent of The Simple Dollar has written an excellent article on this.

But first, does spending less on your child mean you don’t love him?

Trent has this to say, “My job as a parent is to love my child, yes. But another big part of my job as a parent - and perhaps even more important - is to teach my child how to be a successful, functional person.”

In the article, you’ll find out Trent’s five basic principles about money, for parents:

1. If I can’t explain the reasoning behind a purchase to my child, then I won’t make the purchase.
2. I look strongly at how financial moves will affect my family now and later.
3. I involve my children in all financial choices as early as possible.
4. I don’t spend money on him without a clear purpose.
5. I use the smile factor to judge if his childhood is in fact a happy one.
   

• Teaching Children About Money

Check out my guest post on Tiffany’s fantastic blog, Nature Moms:

30 Ways to Go Green with Your Family

You’ll find some simple ideas that you and your family can use to create a greener family.

Note: It’s only after reading Tiffany's blog that I now seriously consider putting natural living in my family as much as possible.

• Total exhaustion after delivery
• Producing not enough milk
• Guilt of not giving breast milk but formula
• How she turned from 60% formula to fully breast milk
• No nursing room when she started work
  

What struck me first was the title.

First $1 or less.

Second without the TV.

Move over Tickle Me Elmo or Lego building blocks or computer games. It’s grateful to realize that you can still do something with young children without burning a hole in your pocket and TV.

Some of them are classic games that I used to play before, of course, when I was younger. They are still fun even at my age now.

Check out Brad Isaac’s list:

10 ways to entertain young children for $1 or less (without the TV)