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Why festive spending should not be a headache for you

Locals having fun at the Mamba Lunar park in Mombasa County during 2015 Christmas. (Photo: Maarufu Mohamed/Standard)

As we enter into the festive season, there are two extremes in Kenya. There are those who actually have fun and those who wish such a period never existed in the calendar. It’s definitely better to belong to the former.

However, many of us never realise that plans for such times are done immediately after the previous one. That you cannot prepare for festivities when it’s already time. Those plans must always be made prior not during. But again, what is planning in this regard? Planning simply means having the purchasing power to enjoy what comes with the period.

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