Financial security is a lifestyle choice: 38 ways to save money now

Have you ever felt that our state of contentment or discontentment with money stems from the lifestyle decisions we make?

Simple assumption, but true. Think about it: it was fun treating your friends to a round of Friday night mojito and eating at the new restaurant on The Block, but what a nightmare if you wake up tomorrow and find out that you don’t even have an allowance for the next five days until the next paycheck comes.

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In search of the good life….

The proverbial search for the good life is what drives  countless Filipinos to greener pastures and foreign lands.  Some  succeed in their  odyssey, some return home  where their hearts belong.

But whatever the reason, the Philippines is our Motherland  and images as well as memories of it will forever be etched in our minds - majestic mountains, the bluest seas, unruly jeepneys, summers at the beach,  happy, smiling people and more!

For all its imperfections, there is frankly nothing else  in the world  I’d rather be at this moment.  Perhaps, it is out of a deep-seated sense of loyalty for the country which has not only nurtured me since birth, and now my children as well. Perhaps, because I feel at home in all the familiar and complicated crannies of my homeland. Perhaps,  because I’ve resigned myself to my fate and don’t see the need to get any richer, apart from the old, cramped car I now own.

There is just something about this place that pulls me with its beauty, whether am sipping coffee in an al fresco cafe or watching people take a whiff of the bay breeze amidst the golden sunset. Life is easy here, call it laid-back if you may. But most of all it is knowledge of the fact that this Motherland will always cradle me and welcome me, even it has upset me a number of times, and vice-versa.

To give hope to the Motherland, we should give it hope.

Here are the reasons:

The Philippines is an ever-changing place. What the country was 15 years ago cannot be compared to what  it is now because  the landscape has drastically changed. The Philippines has become a globalized village  where  it is possible  NOT to fly out of the country to get what you want. This is attested to by the rise of cosmopolitan hang-outs, fusion cuisines and other aspects of our life and culture which have clearly become international