I remember feeling lost when I first graduated and took my first step into the working world. While it was exciting to start a new job and start earning a…
What are real needs? If you look at Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, we really don’t need that much to survive and lead a decent life. In fact, distilling this…
What is Budget Babe doing for Valentine’s Day tomorrow?(or technically later, since I’m writing this past midnight.) Teaching GP tuition (I like to imagine I’m a “super tutor” too by…
I quite like the idea of Valentine’s Day – a celebration of love and two people’s appreciation for one another. What I don’t like, however, is the sheer number of…
Are you spending too much money on dating girls? A friend shared this post with me this morning: “Female, 28, Looking for Expensive Boyfriend”. A number of male readers who have…
One reader emailed me asking for advice on cutting down food expenses, as she found even homecooked meals expensive sometimes after you factor in the cost of groceries. So here…
How to save and still live a fulfilling life?Many people are under the mistaken impression that saving = not having a life. One reader commented this previously: “Hi I am…
The beauty industry is amazing…at tricking consumers to buy their stuff.That was my thought when I walked past the newly-opened World’s Largest Etude House Flagship Store at Orchard Wisma Atria this week. It…
Previously, I wrote about how I saved $20,000 in a year and had a few readers try to calculate the accumulation given a monthly take-home pay of $2,000. I achieved it in…
With 2014 coming to a close I decided to do an analysis of my finances across the past 12 months, and realized quite amazingly that I managed to accumulate $20,000…