More Money

The past few months have been a little rough with unexpected expenses. A few months ago, I accidentally hit some debris in the road causing damage to one of my car’s front tires, resulting in a flat. One month later, I accidentally drove over an uncovered manhole that damaged two of my tires. I replaced

A big struggle for many people going on more pilgrimages is not having the cash monies to support such trips. I get it! Most of the time, pilgrimages are expensive often costing thousands of dollars especially if done as a packaged deal involving a week or more somewhere far like Europe or the Holy Land.

Maybe I have too much of a young adult mindset. I feel like in today’s culture that the library is not ever at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Sure, gone are the days of sleepless nights studying in university libraries or completing book reports or playing Flash or Java games as a way to procrastinate

I have a lot of things to be working on, and crushing my debt is definitely one of them. Growing up, I lived a typical, parents-are-immigrants-from-the-Philippines middle-class life. Throughout high school and college, finances were a bit of a stretch for my parents because of having to take care of my elderly grandparents, my brother,

Honestly, I was hesitating on even writing this post because I wasn’t sure if there would be much to share about how I saved money in Q2 2018. In my Q1 blog post, I mentioned that I have a pilgrimage problem of not being able to travel as much because I had already spent $3000+

Over this past Christmas break, I spent some time diving deeper into personal finance. By diving deeper, I mean reading blogs, books, and applying some of that knowledge to my own financial situation in order to save money. The money I saved was a result of examining my expenses. As I mentioned in my pilgrimage