budgets, shopping smart, building savings
There’s a specific kind of tiredness that comes from doing everything right and still watching the numbers not add up at the end of the month. Not reckless spending, not forgetting to budget, just the ordinary business of living with the cost of living in South Africa quietly becoming something else entirely. I catch myself…
The Honest Reset is a financial guide for single parents in South Africa, but I will say upfront, it isn’t for everyone. It’s for people, and I say people because I know there are single dads out there too, doing this exact same thing alone, who are starting over after life has knocked them sideways…
I did not set out to build a financial guide. I set out to survive a Tuesday. That is what this comes from, if I am honest. Standing in the Checkers aisle doing the kind of maths that has nothing to do with a calculator. Choosing between the thing your child needs and the other…