budgets, shopping smart, building savings
Teaching kids about money isn’t something I was shown. Nobody taught me about finance when I was growing up. Not really. We were told to go to school, get a job, and earn a living. But what to do with that money once you had it, how to save it, grow it, protect it, nobody…
I know what it is to be without. Not in a vague, theoretical way, in a very real, lived way. Learning to save money on groceries in South Africa came from necessity, not choice. There have been times in my life when my rent alone was half of what I earned. Not because I was…
For a long time, savings and investing felt like things I would deal with later. Later, when money felt less tight.Later, when life felt more settled. But at 41, building savings as a single mom has become something I can no longer put off. I am becoming more aware of just how quickly time moves….