It’s here! The two days off that we have been waiting for has finally arrived and you probably deserve it. We know that you probably have a ton of things that you could do this weekend but we are here to help narrow it down, especially if you happen to be in South Africa. In today’s installment of Dollars & Sense, we have got a few great things to do in Cape Town. Check it all out below in today’s installment of Dollars & Sense.
Visit The District Six Museum
The area known simply as District Six was a vibrant, multiracial, working-class neighborhood on the city’s eastern fringe until 1966, when the apartheid government declared it a whites-only area. Over the next few years, 60,000 people were forcibly evicted from their homes and relocated, the houses and streets they left behind bulldozed. Though most of the area today is still just weeds and rubble, this one-time Methodist church—where anti-apartheid protestors once took shelter—has been turned into a fascinating museum documenting the area’s history. A highlight is the large floor map of District Six, where ex-residents have inscribed their family names on their old streets.
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Visit The Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
The Cape Peninsula is one of the world’s six Floral Kingdoms, home to thousands of plants found nowhere else in the world—and this 1,300-acre indigenous garden that rises up Table Mountain’s lower slope is an amazing place to see them. Easy ambling paths cut across mountain streams and between lushly landscaped plant beds; there’s an amphitheater of rare palmlike cycads, and a collection of pineconey protea flowers and their prickly-looking relatives, the pincushions. The season when you visit, of course, dictates the floral show: Spring (September to October) is marked by brilliant purple, orange, and yellow daisy patches; Summer (November to mid-March) brings the blue and white pom-pom blossoms of long-stemmed agapanthus; Autumn (mid-March to May) welcomes the pink March lily; and Winter (June to August) brings the splendid bird-of-paradise.
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Financial Tip Of The Day
Buy In Bulk
We buy items we use a lot of in bulk, particularly items that don’t perish – trash bags, laundry detergent, diapers, and so on are purchased in the largest amounts possible. This cuts down on their cost per usage by quite a bit and over the long haul, begins to add up to some serious money. Even better, we don’t have to shop for these items very often, saving time and a fraction of the cost of a trip to the grocery store.
