Live life agelessly, purposefully, mindfully, happily…
It has been over a year since COVID-19 hit. The pandemic’s impact has been very bad for businesses that were forced to downsize or worse, close down. Families feel the pinch on household budgets as family members’ earning capacity is affected.
Continue reading “Manage your household budget in the time of COVID-19”
Once, when one of my kids was still quite small, we were crossing the street when I chanced upon a 10-cent coin on the road. I stopped, picked it up, brushed away the dirt, and kept it. “Mom, why did you pick it up? That’s just 10 cents!“, my kid asked me. I told my kid, “Everything has value. Even if that was just 5 cents, I’d still pick it up.”
At home, I keep large medicine bottles after the contents have been consumed. I have transformed some of them into coin containers, labeling them by denomination. They come from leftover change from parking places, change from purchases, even coins I find lying around the house. And when there is enough for at least P100, I send the coins to the sari-sari store nearby for exchanging into paper bills. It goes into our family savings.
Continue reading “Saving tip: Small things add up to big things”