Etymology

I live in London, and my mother and my brother’s children live in Ghana. Every month I send money home, and for years it came out of whatever was left. Then I made it a line in my budget, the same as rent, and the month got calmer. I make short videos about how I did it, from a corner of my spare room.

My videos take one part of the line at a time: how to compare ways of sending money, how to keep a household binder for two homes, how to put a little aside for a family event, and how to talk about money with relatives without a quarrel. I film at the kitchen table, in the recording corner and sometimes on the bus.

I am not an adviser, and I do not tell you what to send or where. I show how I budget for it, so that you can plan your own. What I sell are the planners, sheets and binder pages I use myself, and two video courses.