Money
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Late-night musings #24
Saving money here and there eventually accumulates into an amount you won’t have a heart saving up overnight. The small things and the silent drips may initially seem inconsequential but they create opportunities if consistently pursued. Read more
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Money is tight and times are tough
I grew up having enough to go by day by day. I was used to having limited resources (close to nothing) for leisure activities (like traveling to places, watching cinema, and shopping) that I never thought about having them as often as my peers would. Since I learned to budget my allowance in high school, Read more
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This is a story of debt and a get-rich-quick scheme
I heard a story of a married woman who, perhaps together with her husband’s decision, put up their house as security for a loan. They needed the money for an investment, hoping to bring themselves out of poverty after hearing about people who invested a lot in this investment and received returns without hard work. Read more
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The function of money
We use money as a medium of exchange or a measure of value. And without money, we wonder how we could move forward in our day-to-day activities. So it may seem that money is everything. Because if you have money, you have autonomy on where it goes and what to do with your life (unless Read more
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Buying time
If you think you can trade in real money later so you can get more minutes of sleep now, not because you lack sleep but because you are too lazy to wake up just yet, you may have a lot of extra money to spend. But isn’t it a path to poverty? What do you Read more
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Where our money goes
It’s funny how we convince ourselves to give into buying stuff because we deserve it, that we’ve earned it. That the hard work we’ve put into it should be paid back, so we pay ourselves with more stuff (and perhaps more food than we generally consume). But did you forget that our hard work was Read more
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Good deals
You’ll never know what’s offered at the market when you don’t go out and see what’s out there. And after almost two months of looking for a space conducive to a work-from-home setup, I realized that it takes a conscious decision to stick to the budget while choosing a liveable space you’d enjoy spending your Read more
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