Now that the ladies are pleased with their beauty shopping from my last post Bargains Online! let’s take a look at where we can go post hols shopping at really good prices.

For those of us who had a chance to visit Far East Square during the weekend you will notice street vendors hawking really cool stuff from [...]

They say it never rains but pours. Such is the power of Murphy’s Law, and I absolutely guarantee that it will happen to you all at once. You get retrenched, lose your insurance policy you had with your company, and then right at this time a family member gets hospitalized and your invested assets fall [...]

How much cash do you have? What if you lose your job right now? (This is Tip #2 in the Surviving The Recession Financially series)

The next most important thing after determining your expenses is to hide all your cash under the pillow take note of your cash positions. What do I mean by that? In layman terms, that is [...]

While we all try to reel in our spending, this is the holiday season and some of us do need to buy gifts, pamper ourselves or our other halves. So here comes a post to help in our necessary expenditure.

I have seen many physical shops sprouting up at people’s park centre near chinatown point selling Garnier [...]

(This is Tip #1 in the Surviving The Recession Financially series)  Now that the recession has hit, most of us will find the most intuitive thing to do is to cut back on our expenses. To me, cutting expenses is important, but it’s not the first step.

It’s critical to know how much exactly we’re spending on a daily, [...]

So the recession is here, and the banks have started to lay off staff. The boom days have come and gone, with us in its dust. The STI has fallen by about 50% from its all-time high. How do we best prepare ourselves for the days that follow? What are YOU doing?

In the next couple [...]

I don’t know what’s the deal with Singaporeans, but most of us seems to love owning stuff. We buy all kinds of things, (almost) always first hand. And one fine day, usually several years later, we end up throwing them out due to lack of use. I’m guilty of this myself with sports equipment. =p

Why, [...]

Ah, the world financial markets are rockin’ and shakin’ and you have no idea what next year brings. Osama bin Laden is still at large (and so is Mas Selamat) and really, there’s no reason to be happy. But what you do know is you’re getting your year-end bonus real soon!

So being the nice guys [...]

Yes, we all know you coffee addicts can’t do without your daily cup of “nourishment”. But when coffee, and coffee alone, is setting you back enough to buy a top-end coffee machine every year, you ought to be relooking how you drink your coffee.

A $6 cup every workday for the entire year (261 weekdays) sets [...]

We’ve all done it before - haven’t we? We walk into the department store wanting to replace a old wallet, and end up with a new watch, 3 pairs of new shoes, 3 tops, 1 pair of jeans, 2 earrings, and 5 pairs of panties. (referring to the ladies here, of course). The men arn’t [...]

I received an email from a reader, Jonathan, recently, with reference to my post on Don’t let credit cards rob you!. His question (extracted) was: Sure, you may get all these credit cards to help you save through discounts and rebates, and they may be free for like a year or two, but after that, it doesn’t [...]

Do you want 10% returns on your investments? More? You bet! 10% who don’t want, right? Considering that the banks are giving a miserable 0.0000000000035%.

Well let’s see, what kinds of investments actually can produce 10 eggs for every 100 eggs you buy? Stocks, Property, Commodities etc, but hmm, if you did, then last month(Oct 2008) you probably broke [...]