Practical guides on managing money in Nepal, written by the people building Aafno Hisab.
Nobody plans for Dashain, and then Dashain arrives. Here is what the festival actually costs, broken down item by item, with a way to spread it across the year instead of feeling it all in one month.
Your salary, your rent, your school fees and your festivals all run on the Nepali calendar. Your budgeting app almost certainly does not, and that mismatch is why the numbers never quite line up.
Most budgeting advice is written for salaries that arrive in dollars. Here is a monthly budget built around a Nepali salary, real Kathmandu costs, and the months when Dashain arrives.
