A Penny Wise or a Pound Foolish
Congrats on surviving the year! Before you start planning for the new year, make sure that the items on your year-end financial bucket list are checked off. It’s the end of the year and I don’t know how it got here so quickly. Thanks to COVID, it feels like the year consisted of January, February, […]
Do you know the Christmas story teaches us about personal finance? I only just realised that there are several financial lessons from the birth of Jesus. One of my earliest memories of Christmas was when I was in primary school and the school hosted a Christmas concert. I had a part in the band and […]
Are you looking for ways to save money this Christmas? Read on to see how you can cut back on your spending for the holidays. For many of us, it’s been a year of firsts. We have never experienced a pandemic. And we have never experienced a pandemic of this magnitude. It resulted in everything […]
How Gratitude Helps Your Finances encourages you to be grateful for the things in your life. Key tips are being happy with what you have and focusing on your blessings. It feels as though I’ve been telling everyone about my journey to gratitude. But I’ve never told the story about how being grateful has helped […]
It’s Independence Day in Barbados and I’m celebrating with conkies and golden apple juice. The island gained its independence from the United Kingdom on November 30 back in 1966. This was a bold move that came with a lot of responsibility. It meant that the country would be responsible for its own affairs. There would […]
Are you interested in starting an online real estate business? Find out what tools you will need to get started and start selling properties today. I’ve toyed with the idea of purchasing property in other Caribbean islands for a very long time. But it’s not always possible for me to travel to the island to […]
Newcomers to the Caribbean may find it difficult to settle into their new way of life. Life is a lot more laid back and there are some things that may work differently to what you are accustomed to. In a post-COVID world, many Caribbean countries have pivoted to deal with the changes. Work-from-the-Caribbean programmes have […]
Do you enjoy spending money? This was something that I struggled with at various points in my life. But ever since COVID-19 started and I made the shift to work from home, I’ve been spending less on some of my budget categories. I don’t go anywhere, so I have saved money on gas and my […]
