Category: Personal Finance
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Impostor-ing along
2022 has been my MOST SPENDY year yet. There are SO many things I simply bought on a whim. I kind of regret it, but it also exposed a side of me I didn’t know existed, so I guess I am thankful for it. I thought of myself as a higher being who is not…
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Let’s go on a date!
Instead of drowning each other while screaming about money or sitting in deafening silence in the fear of talking about money. Let’s try this setting instead, we shall go on a date.
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Tough times ahead. Probably.
Is there going to be a recession in 2023!? After going through some data, what I can say (and I know very little, so take what I say with a grain of salt) is that the growth is going to slow down for sure, and inflation will probably increase. But recession? On one hand I…
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Women and money – an introduction
The reason that I thought I should have a separate section to discuss money and women is because, apart from the fact that finance is positioned as a difficult subject to understand – Women have to face extra hurdles and barriers to The rhetoric around money, especially for women is that it is difficult to…
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Traversing retirement with the parents
How to plan for your parent’s retirement? Listen, this is a mammoth task you’re taking on, so kudos to you 🙂 I helped my mother plan her retirement, I have to say, that was my ONLY contribution – I streamlined it a little and added some structure to it. So where do we start with…
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Back in our time…
According to our parent’s generation, investments generally seem to mean Gold, Fixed Deposit, Post office related deposits, Provident Funds and for some crazy reason Life insurance policies. Now I don’t really care for Life insurance policies as an ‘investment’, they are and should always be a safety net that you’re essentially buying. The remaining things…
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My dalliance with crypto
First let me start with – L.O.L. This was my biggest fail as an investor. I had no idea what I was doing and jumped on the bandwagon at the height of the crypto madness. So I basically bought super-duper high. I only have myself to blame for investing in a market I did not…

