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Teaching Children about Money How to tie their shoes and tell time are important skills parents teach their children. But don't forget the important skill of learning how to handle money. If you don't teach them, they'll be left to the experts on the schoolyard or (worse yet) Madison Avenue.   Compiling Your Vital Records As your personal, financial, and legal records have grown in volume and importance over the years, the task of organizing such documents may seem overwhelming. And yet the importance of having your vital records readily accessible cannot be over-emphasized.   Changes to the Home Sale Gain Exclusion Many taxpayers bought a second home, such as a vacation home, with the intention of later converting the second home into their principal residence. Under pre-2008 Housing Act law, those taxpayers could have excluded up to $250,000 ($500,000 for certain joint filers) upon a later sale of that former vacation home as long as the two-year ownership and use tests for the exclusion were satisfied.