As a single mother and caretaker to three children, not to mention being the sole breadwinner (I’m a teacher), life is pretty stressful. But I’ve been able to take a good amount of that stress away with games. As a person who grew up with the first video games and the then-nascent internet, I’ve always been a bit of a gamer, and it’s no surprise that this was taken up by my kids, who are quite serious sometimes when it comes to the games they play; on the other hand, I tend to be mostly on the casual side of things when it comes to my games. I’ve said that…
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Second Chances for the Financially Downtrodden
Everyone deserves a fresh start. Not only in certain aspects of life but in every aspect, and one of those is our finances. Not everyone is born with a great financial quotient, some learned how to handle their finances from their parents or from others who don’t know any better. Personally, I didn’t learn about handling finance properly from my parents. Not because they didn’t have the financial intelligence for it, but because there is nothing to manage. We were poor. All of their income was spent on my education. And besides, changes in financial mindset just started recently when a lot of financial information is divulged to the public…
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Realizations After Experiencing Financial Struggle
I wrote a blog post on simple budgeting and debt management tips a few months ago. I may not be a well-known authority on this matter, but this is something I am familiar with. One, I accumulated enormous debt during the pandemic because of job loss. Second, I have struggled with budgeting for the past few decades, but how I perceive it changed after I got into a large debt in 2020. I am still in debt, but I have paid several personal loans over two years with budgeting and debt management. I am no financial guru, but I have learned a lot in two years that 2020 and 2021…
