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- Tips for achieving success
- Power shift
- Tips to survive an economic crisis
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Took me a while to appreciate the financial hole placing calls had turned into. Adding up the cents had me screaming. The positive side of these tough times is that it has got me putting on my thinking cap before making financial decisions no matter how insignificant.
Have got this wooden box I made where I flick coins into. I intended using it to teach my kids the habit of savings. We have had the box for two years now. Sometime soon we will be opening it. My family and I can’t wait to see how much the coins have amounted to. Little drops sure do make mighty oceans
These days, I go the extra mile before sending appliances to the workshop. I sniff round checking out the fault. You never can tell, the fault may never be worth the trip to the repairer. May be it is the present times, but I have been deriving satisfaction from doing this. For the budget angle, I am always struggling with that. It is easier said than done, you know.
No matter the lectures I give my babies about the need to cut waste, the trash can suggest they aren’t getting my message. What do I do?
I have tried out the shopping list but most times I end up obeying my impulse. Last week, I devised a way out; I decided to take the exact amount I needed. Though my eyes caught so many attractive items on the rack, but I had to keep faith with the list cos of the funds I left home with. I call it pragmatic budgeting
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