As summer vacation gets underway, kids have big dreams about how they’ll wile away these long days and weeks that stretch ahead of them. They have visions of lazy days at the pool, hot afternoons running through the backyard sprinkler, lots of ice cream cones and plenty of time with friends. If yo...

Summer isn’t going to be over for a few more months, and that means that people everywhere are looking for ways to have fun, beat the heat, entertain the kids and not spend a fortune doing it. If you are looking for fun summer family activities can you do without blowing your budget, we’...

For kids, summer vacation drags on forever. For parents, those weeks can just seem like a big drag on their wallet -- thanks to summer camps, vacations and all of those ice cream cones. But summer time doesn’t have to be so expensive. Here are five cheap summer activities to keep down expenses and...