I'm sometimes asked a puzzling question by the South African media - how can people know that they have an issue with money?
The assumption is that people don't know they’re struggling financially.
All in Budgeting
I'm sometimes asked a puzzling question by the South African media - how can people know that they have an issue with money?
The assumption is that people don't know they’re struggling financially.
Two fears that we focus on in the #BankAccountChallenge are:
🔴 The fear of depending on others for money and our needs
🔴 The fear of people seeing that we don't have money
One of the fears we work on in the Fall In Love With Your Bank Account Challenge is the fear of running out of money and the shame we feel around our finances.
Instead I kept recreating debt and using all my earnings to donate to charities or buy things I didn't need. And freaking out that my family would find out that I was making money and would ask me for money, when I really didn't have money.
This obsession with having fiscal discipline or being positive, used to cause me so much pain and shame, because it used to make me feel weak willed and like there was something wrong with me!
The fact is you can run a farm in a thrifty manner, as long as you focus on a few essential things. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the thrifty ways to run a farm…