Showing posts with label woman in middle east. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woman in middle east. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Monthly Grocery Shopping and Budgeting

This one will surely sound a bit unnatural for most people, but what can I do since I am living in the
middle east? Roaming around here doing groceries weekly is not really a practice. And besides, paychecks
are given monthly which means that money here needs a month-long stretch of budgeting.

After months of wise money handling I realized that it is easier if all the bills are settled at the first week after salary. I always remember what my mom taught me as the basic principle of success in money matters (Salary - Savings and Investments = Expenses). But honestly, I kind of tweaked this formula a bit to (Salary - (Groceries + Responsibilities + Savings and Investments) = Savings and Expenses) <Apply MDAS rule here>


After posting this one, my mom messaged me in facebook to do juicing ASAP.