The third tip in the column on good financial advice is:
Set a periodic budget
Planning is everything in finance. Setting a periodic budget for expenses is essential to avoid living a life beyond your means.
To do this, it is necessary to keep track of net income and expenses to be incurred, only in this way can it be determined-considering savings as well-when to spend each month on necessary expenses (such as bills, rent, and various fees) and extra expenses, i.e., those related to dining out, travel, and shopping. To explore this in more detail, we encourage you to read thein-depth article on financial journaling and useful tools to get started.
A budget can help you pay off an overdue debt, take charge of your financial future, and even become a more peaceful and relaxed person. Depending on the circumstances, an appropriate budget will not necessarily force you to spend less. Instead, it may simply be that you need to make more forward-looking economic decisions.
Today, too, we recommend that you get started right away and get some practical tools to help you keep on top of things in aneasy and fun way.
Find out how to keep trackof income and expenses with the Kakebo the home account planner to save money and manage your expenses without stress.
You can also manage everything from your smartphone with a mobile app for expense management. There are several and with different functions.
Here we recommend one that we think has all the necessary tools. It is called Monefy and is available for iOS and Android.
We deal with over-indebtedness prevention related to usury risk every day throughlistening, counseling and support. We are approached by employees and retirees who are in a situation of imbalance between income and expenses and cannot pay their debts.
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Learn about other financial best practices
#25 | Be conscious of what you spend
Payment awareness is critical. Very often you buy a lot of things using installments or financing, so you have to be aware of what you are paying month after month.
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.
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