Saving spending and borrowing are sensitive areas. No one likes to talk about them. By virtue of this people don't know exactly how to gp around such issues. Here are a couple of common mistakes people make in this field.

What happens with this shops is called a captive a market. A market where people can sell what they want at whatever price because there are no options. It's either buy, or go home. And even home is not an option. After all, you didn't travel halfway to the Maasai Mara to turn back homeward for a pack of cashew nuts. solution? Carry your own snacks.

No longer is the promise of a bright future enough for a young man to hook a young lady and keep her there. There must be ready evidence measurable in a few zeros at the end, sometimes even more than a few.

My first house will be cheap. A thing of beauty but cheap. It will have all the trappings of a bachelor pad; key being a mini bar and a sound proof theatre -maybe not sound proof but a theatre all the same - with a kick ass plasma TV and Sony Home Theatre System to boot. A man must dream yes?

In other words, people loose more at the tables than when they play Tazama Chapaa. Why would I want to sit at a table with strangers betting my salary in a game of poker when I could buy a number of sweepstake cards for a much lower price? Maybe we should have a Nairobi hold 'em breed of card game.

With the Campus Divas page making rounds on social media, and the sexual promiscuity of our youth once more hitting the headlines it's safe to say that sex sells. For how long though? At some point the bills will come in, and the kids, and life. What then?

I still get shocked at the prices that some of these people put on that really should be a fraction of what they believe the worth to be.

The recent cap in unlimited internet bundles has dealt a deadly blow to some of the country’s more notorious internet users. This band of vagabonds abuses all the freedom that the internet has to offer. While the common market is browsing, other subscribers are illegally downloading music, movies…

At the foot of the food chain is the cane farmer who pays for all this inefficiency. When it comes to payment, the miller recovers all their costs and leaves the residue for the actual producer. For all his labor, the farmer gets paid kes 3,800 per ton of cane. Then they say Lincoln freed all the slaves.

However, the same ego will see them insisting that supermarkets should stop attempting to rob them by ensuring they give change in full, including the worthless, heavy, Ksh.1 coins. So, if they get Ksh 1 coins from the supermarket as change, where do the coins go, such that no one appears to have Ksh 1 coins when paying for their shopping?