I am so excited to share with you our progress as our family takes this journey to debt-freedom. It is now 7 months since we made that decision to eliminate our debt completely. So we had a total of PHP 1,065,000 non-mortgage debt which we acquired last year from a series of bad decisions. I can’t believe that I did …
”Why do you need to get out of debt? Debt can be a driving force for you to work harder. It is not forever…why are you punishing yourself?These are the questions that ordinary people throw at us as we started our journey on getting out of debt early this year. But at the end of this post I will tell …
Being in debt is normal in the Philippines. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) released the National Baseline Survey on Financial Inclusion (NBSFI)1 in 2015 which is the first national survey of Filipino adults who are actual and potential users of financial products and services. It stated that almost 5 of 10 adults (47.1%) have debt, 33.8 percent borrowed in the past …
A budget is always part of our being accountable when it comes to our finances. Especially this time of pandemic when everything seems so shaky, all the more that we need to manage our finances properly. My husband and I will lay it out prior to every month so we can tell our money where it exactly has to go …
We all know that the income of a seafarer on board is usually more lucrative compared to the income of employees working ashore. So often times, we may think that seafarers are living a really good and easy life. But actually, life on board ship is not as sweet as a piece of cake like what other people are thinking. …
