Exploring ways to spend duit raya, lifestyle website Have Halal, Will Travel suggests everything from enjoying meals out or investing in self-improvement to charitable donations. It also proposes saving it and putting it towards a larger financial goal. This is in line with how many Malaysian parents use duit raya cash to help teach children about managing their finances.
ALFA and Friends—a provider of pre-school STEM education resources—recommends parents let small children handle their duit raya by themselves, encouraging them to keep it in a safe place and spend it as they want to, with the goal of ‘teaching them to be responsible and accountable for their own money’. It also suggests counting duit raya can be a fun way to reinforce maths skills.
