Your Life, Your Money.
Your Life, Your Money.
Tips, tricks and uncommon wisdom to help you get more out of your money.
MoneySmart would like to wish all our readers a Happy National Day! Enjoy the fireworks, and hopefully you’ve got a long weekend!
Have you got a magnetic personality? Can you speak well in public? Do you empathize with the man on the street? Yes? Then you’re clearly not one of our MPs. Which means like average Singaporeans, you’re struggling with the current cost of living. The good news is, you can use your charming persona to roll with the (financial) blows. In this article, I ask part-time emcee Eugene Tay about this booming industry:
I’ve always had an affinity for bean bags. Heck, look at me from five metres and I’ll pass for one. Trouble is, designer bean bags cost too much; so unless a sack of foam pellets is worth a college education (i.e. Peking University), I make do with whatever industrial strength material holds my weight. Then along come Jay and Shane from doob bean bags, who not only change my whole idea of bean bags, but add entrepreneurship lessons to boot. This week, I find out what it takes to start and run your own beanbag company:
If you’re like me, you’ve probably pulled any number of hilarious stunts to get a side income. I wasn’t the only one making money from selling Sea Monkeys, don’t you lie. Anyway, while we were up to shenanigans, Stephanie Chai was raking in serious dough on the side. A former model and the brains behind Wedding Guide Asia, Stephanie knows about side income. We ask her about it:
Alaric Tan is the driving force behind The Project Crew, a new force in Singapore’s event management industry. And if you’ve been in that industry, you’ll know there are easier jobs out there. Like being a Commando. To find out how Alaric thrives and succeeds in his pressure-cooker world , we do some catching up.
REIZO is a custom tailoring business, recently opened at Wilkie Edge. In a world where tailored suits cost more than blood transfusions, Reizo manages to deliver quality at cut rate prices. That isn’t the only unusual thing about them; this fresh start-up had some unlikely roots. MoneySmart did some probing, and we nabbed while we were at it.
Common interpretations of “CPF” range from “Curi (steal) People’s Funds” to “Coffin Provision Fund”. Singaporeans have been griping about it since the days children read actual books, and unlike NS, it’s not getting easier. Over the past couple of weeks, I spoke to friends and neighbours about their issues with CPF. Somewhere between their saliva flecked rants and obscene gestures, I picked out five complaints that stood out. But first off…
