Money & Investing
Loans, insurance, CPF and the numbers behind everyday decisions.
Jes · Singapore
Money, motherhood and the messy middle.
I’m Jes. I write about stretching a dollar, raising a family and running SnackFirst — the lessons, the numbers, and the things that make life beautiful.
Five places to start
Pick the door that looks most like your week.
Motherhood & Family
Pregnancy, confinement, and the honest parts of raising children.
Building a Business
Sales, self-employment and what running SnackFirst taught me.
Travel
Free-and-easy trips, hotel notes and the places I keep going back to.
Life & Thoughts
The quieter essays: time, work, growing up and what matters.
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Three hundred essays from 2009 to 2023, searchable by word or feeling.
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