Women tend to regret not saving earlier, according to an article in Elle. There are many distractions, such as shopping, facial, spa, massages, makeup and other things that we fancy, so some people may not have enough savings. A friend of mine earns more than me, and doesn’t own a car. By right, she should [...]
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Good news for singles above 35 who want to live in HDB flat. HDB will now give up to $20000 for singles who buy a resale flat. Currently they get $11000 grant, but if they choose to live near their parents, then they will get an additional $9000. Too bad my friend bought his a [...]
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To find out more about the budget of 2008, you may check out the speech at the Singaporebudget.gov.sg website. The announcements are there, and you can even use the household calculator to find out how much your family will receive from the government. According to an extremely rough estimate, because I don’t know why my [...]
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On my recent trip to Perth, I bought a number of books. Books could be easily found in Singapore, but certain obscure titles may be difficult to find. Hence, they took up quite a lot of luggage space. One problem I have, or one advantage I have, depending on which angle you look at, is [...]
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I drove past my new place’s site today. The 5-storey building is not up yet despite buying it more than one year ago. However, I managed to see the basement car park being dug out, so at least there is some change. During the weekend, we went to a huge furniture store in Tampines, and [...]
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It costs at least $20 to watch a movie on the weekends. One ticket costs $9.50, and if you go with your partner, that would be $19. Another $1 for online booking, and that is $20. Some of you like to have drinks and snacks (that’s where the cinema operators make their money from, not [...]
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Stretching the dollar may mean penny pinching to some, but it all adds up in the long run. My aunt noticed her colleague buying two watermelons each time she went to the supermarket during lunch time, and wondered why she would always make two trips to the cashier. Probably the colleague had forgotten to take [...]
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Perhaps in Chicago facelift surgeries are probably more similar to tightening our budgets more than we know. When we are young, we spend as much money as possible without thinking of the consequences of not investing that sum of money. Some people can be so risk averse to investing that they would rather throw their [...]
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