The Road to Freedom

Woman throughout history ran the household and with that, came the task of creating a household budget. Men would go off to work and whatever money came into the house at the end of the week was needed to pay bills, food, clothes, home improvements, cars, parties, Christmas, replace old appliances, buy a new bed, prepare for another babies arrival, entertainment, the list is endless. Women managed the money without there ever being an option to borrow from a bank or put it on a credit card. The Art of household budgeting was passed from mother to daughter for generations. Then as times changed and more woman went out to work, there wasn’t enough time in the day. We began to struggle to balance work, childcare, preparing meals, seeing friends, household chores, homework and the list goes on. Banks and credit card companies saw an opportunity and began to advertise how they could “help”. We began to buy things that we once would have budgeted for, on credit and boom a nation of instant gratification, over consumption & mindless spending was born. With this sadly the art of budgeting was no longer required and was lost.