Girl's Talk: Financially Speaking...

Oh my, my Fashion Explorer is down today so instead of posting there about my Girl's Talk entry, let me just post my entry here in my personal blog.

Let's talk about "financial-side of me". I'm working full-time as a teacher. My hubby is a teacher too and we're both working here in Thailand. Some of you may think that we're earning "MUCH" because we're working abroad. The truth is, we're not earning that MUCH. But thanks be to God that we're earning enough to survive , enough to send allowance to our parents, send a little amount for siblings who are celebrating birthdays and enough to pay for our rent, our baby's nanny, baby's visit to hospital, water bills, electric bills , telephone and internet bills. Honestly, we're still struggling to save because we have acquired some debt but we've finally settled our debt this month so hopefully next month we could start saving up for our vacation plan for Philippines next year.

After receiving our salary every month, we'll pay all our bills, set aside our monthly allowance for groceries and monthly allowance for each of our needs and personal wants. It's up to us to buy whatever we want with our allowance. It's our way of treating ourselves after a month-loaded work. That's the time I could buy my clothes from my favorite boutique (only if they're offering 50% sale...he..he...) , shoes, make-up , hair accessories and I consider buying wrinkle cream in the near future..he..he... Our baby has his own allowance too to buy his toys, books and clothes. We're saving some of it for his 2nd birthday celebration on October.

I'm earning from my blog too but not more than $100 a month. This is where I get my budget for my Artscow's orders and online buying.

Financially speaking, we're doing OK but I'm hoping to have a breakthrough in terms of SAVINGS. We're still working on it and we hope to be successful starting this year.