One of the things that’s usually overlooked when raising our children is teaching them the importance and value of money. I don’t remember being taught how to handle money so perhaps this is the reason that manage finances has been one of my biggest challenges as an adult. Over the years, I have learned how…
Category: Finances
Financial talk, advice on frugal living and tips on how to save and earn extra money.
How to Take Control of Your Finances
Coming from a single source income family, we had to make a lot of adjustments when it comes to handling our finances. My husband works fulltime while I stay at home and run the household. and although I earn a little from part time freelance writing and social media content creation jobs, the bulk of…
Joy in the Valley – Being a Wife, Mother, and a Blogger
I have always loved blogging and sharing snippets of our home life on my social media accounts; I have been doing this since 2013 and it continues to give me Joy. I share stories which I know many can relate to and hopefully learn from because I love it when people get to experience and…
Changing my Life Course at 40 – Have I gone crazy?
I’m changing my life course at 40 years old. I know, I know. You might be thinking that I have gone crazy but hear me out first. I thought that I had our family’s life planned out here in Cebu but then something happened which triggered this internal turmoil in me, which then led me…
Sending a Balikbayan Box to the Philippines? Here’s a Better Option for You!
Balikbayan box – a box of happiness filled with canned goods, chocolates, toys, clothes, etc. and sent by overseas Filipino workers to their families back home. Very costly to send and can take months before they arrive. If it arrives, at all. Let me start by saying that I have such huge respect for overseas…
3 Legitimate Money Making Apps for Moms
As a working mom who is trying to make sure that both ends meet at the end of every month, not only do I try to avoid making financial blunders, I also have side-hustles like using money making apps to earn extra cash. I know, I know I am a hardcore member of #MomsWhoHustle. We do…
Ipon Challenge – Flexible Money Saving Challenge for Families
Is the Ipon Challenge for you? My husband and I are really doing our best in teaching the kids how to handle finances and in the effort to supplement what we have already taught them, we decided to take the Ipon Challenge (money saving challenge) authored by the Peso Sense. Unlike the other money saving challenges…