Category Financial Literacy

Buying a house is one of the major 3 spending of young couples – the first being the wedding ceremony, the second being buying a house and thirdly, having children. We have explored the topic of spending lavishly on weddings…

Note: This topic is about discouraging spending lavishly on wedding celebrations, not discouraging having a decent wedding.  Wedding celebrations, to many first time grooms and brides, is a once in a lifetime event which they wanted to be memorable. The…

The Practicality of Owning A Car In Countries With Extensive Transport Network While the cars present some form of convenience, during peak hours in those busy cities, the jam is such that often times taking a train is faster. Furthermore…

Owning a car seems to be a natural thing to do once your basic needs are fulfilled. In fact, car ownership is often tied with social status. More than once I have a few subordinates at work who asked me…

Every month, we get our salary and tell ourselves we will need to save up. Yet at the end of every month, we realise that we have not saved as much as we would like, if we even managed to…

An average human in a country not ravaged by famine or war has about 80 years to live, of which the first 20 years should be spent growing up and learning to be independent and the last 20 are spent…