Somewhere along the way, I chose a comforter instead of duvet for our home, and if you ask me why, the honest answer is laundry. Not the pretty version of home organising where everything gets sorted into labelled boxes and your bedroom looks like a space no one sleeps in; I have written before about…
I have been a monthly shopper for most of my life; that was always the plan: one big trip, budget sorted, done. But as prices crept up year after year, my budget had to keep stretching with it, and I started noticing something frustrating: either the groceries did not last the full month, or the…
A couple of years ago, I worked at an IT company based in the Old Mutual building, where my days ran from 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. When people talk about working mom guilt South Africa, this is the version I think of, the one I actually lived, not the one that shows up in…