SAVE WITH KAKEIBO

We decided a long time ago to leave anything about the economy and finances out of our content. The subject is just too heavy for our pages, which is where we want to create a happy place for everyone. We left it to other magazines. Until we heard about kakeibo, the Japanese philosophy that means ‘household account ledger’.

In an article on by the British author and literary agent Sarah Harvey, about her discovery of this budgeting method, she writes: ‘After living in Tokyo for six months, I became fascinated by how