From counseling experience accumulated over more than 25 years, we have realized that many people do not have a clear understanding of their expenses and thus their savings. At best, users barely know the balance and general performance of the current account. But if we do not know how we spend our money, it will be difficult to make adjustments to correct any complex situation.
Expense Tracking
In such cases, the first advice is to keep track of income and expenses, to understand how our financial situation is going. Of course, this activity, besides being tedious, takes up part of our free time. But there is technology that comes to our rescue. Electronic and digital payments allow us to keep real-time tracking of the expenses we make, without having to stand around transcribing income and expenses with pen and paper.
This allows us to know at any time how I am managing money and make checks against the monthly budget I have set to use.
What can you do?
Having solved the first problem, the next step involves knowing two fundamental aspects:
– What is the amount of my expenses?
– What kind of expenses do I make?
Monitoring spending.
Tracking expenses then becomes a key aspect of being able to determine how much we are able to save on a monthly and annual basis, so that we understand what expenses we can reduce to increase savings.
So, today’s advice is: be aware of what you spend.
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Good financial advice #24 | Learn to say no
Have you ever found yourself self-imposed a spending limit beyond which not to go, so you can manage to save money at the end of the month? It is certainly not easy to make all the accounts add up.
Perhaps it may help to start using a magic word: no.
Good financial advice #23 | Buy without credit cards
The credit card has the virtue of making people pay for things in a deferred manner, but so it is not possible to have full control over purchases and thus monthly or weekly outgoings. If you want to be in control of your spending at all times, make payments and purchases with your debit card.
Good financial advice #22 | Watch less TV
Television is definitely a source of shopping inspiration, advertising unfortunately stimulates and ignites cravings and needs and pushes us to buy perhaps unnecessary items.