This transplanted contributor lives to travel and thinks Venice is a treasure beyond descriptive words. Pedestrian Florence is a very close second favorite. Rome deserves another visit, if the only to people-watch! She now lives 3 blocks away from the mall that once was the biggest in the entire world…the northern frozen world, anyway. If you are lucky...

I just went to travel to Bangkok on a strict budget.  So one of the tricks on staying on budget is preparation. Air Fare.  Buying your tickets months before your travel date will give you a huge discount.  This is true.  I checked all the airline rates online to determine the best airline rate.  Since Bangkok is fairly one of the topmost destinations for Pinoys...

One of the biggest hurdle in my life as a recently single parent was the fact that I needed to explain our financial situation to my children, especially my eldest.  Ofcourse they have noticed the big difference.  Like we do not shop as often now, especially for unnecessary items we used to horde when we were still shall we say, well-off. It is true, one of the big...

With the summer break coming up, I surmise it wouldn’t hurt to start planning for the summer break. How do you usually begin planning for a trip? I usually begin mine with my budget. If I have more money to spend, then I begin my search for trips possibly to prestigious resorts in the country (read: Panglao Island Nature Resort, Balesin) or somewhere off the...

I always encourage my children to eat vegetables. One of the surefire way to get them to eat variety of vegetables is to keep on serving them on the table even when they said they hated it. One of the advantages of living in a rural area is that local vegetables are cheap. I can buy a huge bundle of pechay here for P5.00, and a kilo of camote for P10.00. These are...

Since I have decided to skip gift giving this Christmas except for a more practical gifts to the children, I am shocked that even at the economic hoo-haas, SOME people are still giving away extravagant and obsence gifts according to the recent article by the Money Comparison Experts at Money.Co.UK, Here goes the list: (if you are even interested anyway…) 1. The...