📝 NEW POST: August Spending and September Budget | Money Diaries 2023

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/aug-money-diaries-2023

Hi everyone! It’s almost the end of the working week for most of us! 🎉 I thought I would close and round-up my monthly budget early today since I’m working from home and I’m not planning on spending any more money for the rest of the day. We’re finally entering September! 🥳

📝 NEW POST: September Spending and October Budget | Money Diaries 2023

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/sep-money-diaries-2023

Hi everyone! This one’s a bit late because I was busy on the weekend — hope everyone’s got their budget reset and ready for the new month! September was an unexpectedly high spend month for me (which I’ll discuss and reflect about in the blogpost), but ultimately all is well. Wishing everyone a good October~ 🧡

📝 NEW POST: October Spending and November Budget | Money Diaries 2023

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/p/oct-money-diaries-2023

Hi everyone! Here’s the roundup for October, and my budget for November. I was overseas on holiday for two weeks in October, and it was a much needed break that gave me a lot of space to reflect on my relationship with my time and resources. I’m really looking forward to the end of the year. Only two months left to 2024! 🎉🎆

📝 NEW POST: November Spending and December Budget | Money Diaries 2023

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/p/nov-money-diaries-2023

Hi everyone! It's a bit late, but I hope still in time in case you needed some motivation to set up your budget for December! Just because it's the last month of the year doesn't mean that we forget all structure and discipline with our finances 🌝

I'm planning to do a review of my 2023 money goals, and at the same time share my new goals for 2024. While I'm reflecting and working on that, perhaps you would like to think about what your money goals are for next year too? Then we can share with each other in the comments of my new video once that comes out!

If you can't already tell from my content, I love setting goals and making plans for myself. December is also my favourite time of year to do this as the year ahead is full of hope and possibilities. I really hope I can encourage you to start thinking about your goals, financial or otherwise!

Wishing everyone a wonderful and joyous December 🧡

🎞 NEW VIDEO: 2024 Money Goals | 🏖️ Holiday Fund, 👵🏽 Retirement Investments & 🚫 No Online Shopping!

🌐 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/u6ewNKUKAoY

Hello my wonderful Tele subscribers! 🤍 Here is a new video for you~ I'll be uploading my 2024 Budgeting video soon, so please look forward to that one too 🙏 If you have your own money goals that you would like to share, feel free to comment on the video and let me know!

I hope this inspires you to come up with your own financial goals for the new year, and more importantly, a game plan on how you will achieve them. I wish you all the best!

🎞 NEW VIDEO: Budgeting for 2024 📊 | $4100 take-home salary in Singapore 🇸🇬

🌐 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TrCzcGyfD4I

Hello my dearest Tele subscribers! 🤍 As promised, here is my budget video for 2024! This is a companion video to my Money Goals one — with any goal there needs to be an action plan, right?

Wishing everyone a happy new year, and a good long weekend! Goodbye 2023~

(Also, did you get the reference(s) in the thumbnail? 🌚)

📝 NEW POST: December Spending and January Budget | Money Diaries 2023

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/p/dec-money-diaries-2023

Happy new year everyone! And welcome to all the new subscribers to this channel — thank you so much for joining me on here 🧡

This is both the last blogpost for 2023 and the first blogpost for 2024. I’m putting into action my new budget for 2024, and I’m looking forward to see how it’ll work out over the next few months.

For everyone who has been here since my first blogpost, thank you so much for sticking around. I hope these posts have been helpful over the past year, and I’m truly grateful for your support 🙏 Wishing everyone a great year ahead! ✨

Good morning everyone! 🌞

🎙️ Here’s something to listen to for your evening commute: I’m featured on a podcast by The Financial Coconut! This is the second time I’ve been on the podcast (you can find the first episode on their channel too).

This episode was recorded on 1 December 2023, and it was when I had just started my reflection on how the past year had gone and thinking about what I wanted 2024 to look like. The results of this thought exercise are the latest 2 videos I published on my channel. But if you’re interested in a non-scripted (yikes) version of me, then you might like this too! 🧡

Reggie was such a joy to talk to and I genuinely had a great time recording this episode for their channel. Do support the The Financial Coconut by checking out this episode! You can watch it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/o7e4bSBVFB4?si=vMiVK-7VKkwJXkG1

Hello everyone,

Guess what — I’ve been invited as a speaker for the Seedly Personal Finance Festival 2024 this year. Crazy, I know. Who would’ve known I’d be someone who would be invited to a festival — let alone one about personal finance??

Regardless, I’m so honoured and pleased to be invited. Intimidated and worried too, but I have 3 months to prepare so fingers crossed it’ll go well. 🤞If not, don’t worry there’ll be other speakers there that you can watch lol.

Here are more details about the festival:

🗓️ When: 6 April 2024, Saturday
📍 Where: Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Hall F

🎟️ With each festival ticket, you can get:
🔸 Access to ALL stages and event booths
🔸 A Goodie bag worth S$68
🔸 A chance to participate in lucky draws and giveaways worth over S$17,300 in total.

✨ You can use the promo code 20OFFLISA for 20% off the ticket price, which you can get here: https://bit.ly/PFF2024Speakers

And if you see me at the festival, please don’t be shy and say hi! 🧡

Hi everyone, exciting news! sav.finance is organising another Money Spring Cleaning workshop for 2024, covering essential personal finance topics like budgeting, insurance and investing.

They organised a similar workshop last year and some of you may have attended that one. If you missed it, they’re holding another one this year — but this time with me in it! 🤪 I’ll be sharing a bit of my own budgeting framework and suggestions in the first session (15 Jan) of the workshop. There’s also going to be a live Q&A at the end, so you can ask me any questions then! 💭

Even if you’ve got the basics of budgeting down, the other sessions on insurance and investing would be really helpful if you’re still figuring things out.

🌱 There’s a bundle discount if you buy 2 tickets ($11.40 per person, instead of $20) through my link here: https://www.sav.finance/lp/new-year?utm_medium=lisa

So you can invite a friend (or drag them along with you) and kickstart your financial journey together 👍

📝 NEW POST: January Spending & February Budget | Money Diaries 2024

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/p/jan-money-diaries-2024

Happy February everyone~ 🧡 It’s going to be a short month! Wishing y’all a great month and a joyous lunar new year ahead 🧧🎉

Hello everyone, and happy lunar new year! 🌞🧧

🎙️ Just wanted to share this short 30-min interview that I did on Josh Tan’s (from TheAstuteParent) channel! It’s like a get-to-know-me, if you’re interested in that kinda thing. (Pls excuse my big face, I should’ve sat further away from my laptop.) Thanks Josh for having me on your channel! 🙏

📺 You can watch it on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h44KglFJ_kE

Happy Friday everyone!

📹 Here’s another video featuring meee haha. This time it’s a game show format (we call it 👑 Budget Royale), where we all try to give our best tips to save on household expenses, investing, and recreation, and then vote on who gave the best suggestion after each round. The four of us had pretty unique perspectives based on our current stage of life. It was fun filming this episode, and I learnt a lot from the others too!

Hope you like it! 🧡

📺 You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/XfZFvZehZFg

🎞 NEW VIDEO: 🛍️ My Online Shopping Ban 🚫 | getting back my time and energy ⏰

🌐 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dB4-lJlV99k

Hello my Tele subscribers! In this video I talk about a new personal experiment that I’m trying out for 2024 — I’m quitting online shopping!! Well, not completely, but I am taking measures to cut most of it out of my life. It’s been a long time coming, and I think it’s a necessary project to regain my time and be more intentional with my decisions. More thoughts in the video!

If you’re interested in doing a similar project, I also made a blogpost summarising the main rules and goals. You can check it out here.

📝 NEW POST: February Spending & March Budget | Money Diaries 2024

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/p/feb-money-diaries-2024

Wow it’s already March! How’s everyone doing so far? 🥰

Hi everyone!

I'll be speaking at an event organised by The Financial Coconut next Saturday! (If you remember, I was on their podcast twice before.)

The panel is broadly going to be about money and retirement — which sounds intimidating, I know, but I hope we can break down the concept into something more relatable and less abstract.

There are other panels and events covering topics like money narratives and couple finances too.

✨ If any of these topics interest you and you wanna come, I have 10 free tickets to give away! Please send me an email (lisa.k.singapore@gmail.com) and let me know which sessions you'd like to go for (both also can). I'll let the organisers know so that they can put you on the list.

🗓️ Saturday, 23 March 2024
⏰ 11am to 4pm
📍 OCBC Wisma Atria, #04-01, Singapore
💲 $8 for both AM & PM session, $4 separately (I'm in the AM session!)

You can find more details and get the tickets here:
➡️ https://thefinancialcoconut.com/financial-wellness-festival-2024/

📝 NEW POST: March Spending & April Budget | Money Diaries 2024

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/p/mar-money-diaries-2024

Was March the longest month ever or is it just me? Anyway, happy April! Selamat Hari Raya in advance to everyone 🎊💖

📝 NEW POST: April Spending & May Budget | Money Diaries 2024

📧 Read on Substack: https://lisakletters.substack.com/p/apr-money-diaries-2024

Happy Labour Day! 🫡 Hope everyone is getting a good rest today ~ 🤍

Hello everyone, and Happy Vesak Day! Hope y’all are enjoying the mid-week PH 🤍

🎙️ The folks at BagHolder Pod interviewed me on their channel to talk about my YouTube and personal finance journey. They’re pretty entertaining so do check it out! Thank you for having me on the podcast Kelvin, Eric, CK, and Boon Tee! 🙏

📺 You can watch it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/suSvRaYW_oc

🎞 NEW VIDEO: My Money Mindsets 🧠 (how my thoughts on money have changed over the years)

🌐 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ug_xngZdXyQ

Hello my Tele subscribers, it’s a new video day! This one is a bit of a chatty rambling one, but I thought it would be good for me to reflect on how my perspectives around money have evolved over the years. Part of growing up is changing your mind about some things you used to believe were true… Anyway, hope y’all have a great Sunday!