The Art of Budgeting

Although budgeting may seem like a drag, being in debt is even more of a downer. By getting a grip on your spending, you can build your savings and improve your credit score. So, what really is a budget? A budget is a plan for your future income and expenditures over a set period of time. Typically, a budget is used to guide your spending, savings, and investments.

Since it will be difficult to invest if we spend all our income,

Managing Your Money

Let us begin with the question, what is money? We may have different expressions for it – cheddar, bucks, dough, and c-notes – but money usually finds a way to overcome these barriers of dialects and speak to us. That said, money is simply a measure of value and a medium of exchange for goods and services. It exists in the form of an officially issued coin or note, gold, real estate, stocks & shares, a deposit in a checking account or other commodity of value.
 There are two basic types of money

Washing machines: which type is best for you?

Lately I have been doing a bit of research on which washing machine to buy. My Old manual washing machine has packed up; it isn't spinning as it should so I still have to do the washing after the machine has done its own. So for about a month now, I have been

Free event coming up in Lagos; FOR MOMS

Attention, mothers and mothers-to-be! Register now for what promises to be the most inspiring and informative event of the year for mothers and mothers-to-be, Mamalette Live! 2015. Mamalette Live! 2015 comes up on Saturday, 14th November 2015 at the Co Creation Hub, 294 Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba, Lagos.

   If you are a new mother or hoping to become a mother, then you have to be at this event.Mamalette Live! is an annual event that brings together experts as well as new and experienced mothers & mothers to be.

Survival Guide for a Stay at Home Mom( PART TWO )

I shared part one of this series here
Here goes part two:

Survival Guide for a Stay at Home Mom (PART ONE)

As a young child, there were several things I always dreamt i would do when I grow up: at a point I wanted to be a Nun, at some I wanted to be a Doctor. I finally studied computer science and dreamt of  working in a multinational; working in the IT department  as a System analyst or something close to that and climbing the career ladder. In all this, there was always one thing I knew I didn’t want to be: a stay-at-home mom. Or, in the parlance of my youth, a housewife.

 Yes, I have worked temporarily in two multinationals

BIG Naija wedding syndrome

Photo Credit: Bellanaija

In recent times, a lot of intending couples have been under pressure to have a high budget wedding, for some, it is now a sort of  competition; no thanks to social media!

This starts with the long lists presented to the groom by the brides family to expectations of a big societal wedding from parents and family, sometimes even the parents are more excited than the kids sef, so they want to go all out. You see fathers proudly saying ' My daughter is getting married' and mothers dishing out invites as if it is her wedding.