The easyest way to spend less are the following: (they build on each other) - Go to shop regualry when you buy the neccesary things, and dont do "big shopping in one go". - Its convenient to go ones or twice a month to buy everything for a month or two. (like toilet papers, oil, sugar, flour, canned food, etc). But if you do small shoppings, and always buy necessary things you will buy less, and throw out less later. Try to buy as few things as possible ahead with moderated amount. You dont need 20 kg of sugar because its non-perishable keep in the pantry, when you use only 1 kg/month. Buy 1 kg, and only place 3/4 in the container, and 1/4 in placed back in the pantry. When you out of sugar from the conatiner then fill it from the pantry, and buy 1 kg, and fill the rest (or keep at least 1/4 what will be placed back to pantry). This way you never have cases with fully out of stuff, and will know you need to replace. It can be the same with salt, vinegar, toilet paper, soap, or any non-perishable products. - Go shopping on foot/public transport. If you shopping with a car, you will have a tendency of buying more and more. But if you have to transport the products via your hands, you will think twice before buying more than needed. - Use only small shopping basket. If there is only shopping carts, or big baskets avaiable, then use your own basket/bag what will be used to transport the products home. This way you will feel the weight of the bag what will be needed to bring home too. So if you feel its getting heavy you may be finish shopping faster, or take back the impulse bought product to lover the weight of the bag. - Prevent impulse shopping. Its hard to say no to something you want to buy when see it, and there are cases when its worth the price, and hussle to buy something. But if you want to prevent impulse shopping not needed things try the following things: - ask yourself is it really needed. (you don't have to deprive yourself of everything but you need to know if that thing will be really necessary, or just give you some dopamine for the time until you go home) If you can give 2 good reason why its needed (and its not "because its pretty") you should buy it. If only 1 then should reconsider. If none let it go. - dont look the prices as they, but try to convert it to a more daly lifie thing. Like work hours. Ask yourself how many hours/days/months are have to work to get the amount for the product. - Use calculator. You have a smart phone in your pocket or hands. When you pick something from the shelves, and place it in your basket/bag then count the price on the go. You will see in real time, how much you will spend, and wont get surprised when going to check out. Just dont forget to add the extra costs like packaging price. This way you will see if something is wrongly priced and "tricked you in your choose". - Use shopping list: if you know what you need you will not going aimlesly in the shop, and did not get disturbed by discounts becasue you are focusing on the list. You can write the prices of the bought product to check if there is a wrongly priced item what tricked you in your choose. - Use cash, not card. If you have your budget in cash you will fell the spending more than using it from a card. *Ultimate level: - Catalog your spendings and throwen out products. It feels time consuming, but if you do it regularly and in a proper way than you can analyze the faults on your shopping. Like you throw out products before consuming all. e.g: you throw out 3 eggs from the 10 evey 2 weeks. You can check if the smaller package is saving you money or not. Maybe a 2 boxes of 6 pack save you money on the long term. There are several apps for this case, but you can use excel or google table too. A good sheet of data can be analyzed various ways. Just dont let it grown to big, purge it some times (or at least remove it from the internet to an external drive)
big shopping in 1 go is the fastest way to overspend, its the same with buying cloths, after 3 4 items you prob dont even know what you want anymore and just do stupid shopping XD
i tell you my secret: write a shopping list at home and just stick to it...
So right!!
Great
I am guilty of being persuaded by the little "gifts" they "offer". I got extra 8 wine glasses that I didn't need last month 🤣
It happened to everyone 😅
does people never do a quick math of what they got before going to the counter ??? if so then you are either rich or just stupid =)))
Yep, I don't know how many times I've seen people putting things away at the counter because they didn't have enough 😅
The easyest way to spend less are the following: (they build on each other)
- Go to shop regualry when you buy the neccesary things, and dont do "big shopping in one go". - Its convenient to go ones or twice a month to buy everything for a month or two. (like toilet papers, oil, sugar, flour, canned food, etc). But if you do small shoppings, and always buy necessary things you will buy less, and throw out less later.
Try to buy as few things as possible ahead with moderated amount. You dont need 20 kg of sugar because its non-perishable keep in the pantry, when you use only 1 kg/month.
Buy 1 kg, and only place 3/4 in the container, and 1/4 in placed back in the pantry. When you out of sugar from the conatiner then fill it from the pantry, and buy 1 kg, and fill the rest (or keep at least 1/4 what will be placed back to pantry). This way you never have cases with fully out of stuff, and will know you need to replace. It can be the same with salt, vinegar, toilet paper, soap, or any non-perishable products.
- Go shopping on foot/public transport. If you shopping with a car, you will have a tendency of buying more and more. But if you have to transport the products via your hands, you will think twice before buying more than needed.
- Use only small shopping basket. If there is only shopping carts, or big baskets avaiable, then use your own basket/bag what will be used to transport the products home. This way you will feel the weight of the bag what will be needed to bring home too. So if you feel its getting heavy you may be finish shopping faster, or take back the impulse bought product to lover the weight of the bag.
- Prevent impulse shopping. Its hard to say no to something you want to buy when see it, and there are cases when its worth the price, and hussle to buy something. But if you want to prevent impulse shopping not needed things try the following things:
- ask yourself is it really needed. (you don't have to deprive yourself of everything but you need to know if that thing will be really necessary, or just give you some dopamine for the time until you go home) If you can give 2 good reason why its needed (and its not "because its pretty") you should buy it. If only 1 then should reconsider. If none let it go.
- dont look the prices as they, but try to convert it to a more daly lifie thing. Like work hours. Ask yourself how many hours/days/months are have to work to get the amount for the product.
- Use calculator. You have a smart phone in your pocket or hands. When you pick something from the shelves, and place it in your basket/bag then count the price on the go. You will see in real time, how much you will spend, and wont get surprised when going to check out. Just dont forget to add the extra costs like packaging price. This way you will see if something is wrongly priced and "tricked you in your choose".
- Use shopping list: if you know what you need you will not going aimlesly in the shop, and did not get disturbed by discounts becasue you are focusing on the list. You can write the prices of the bought product to check if there is a wrongly priced item what tricked you in your choose.
- Use cash, not card. If you have your budget in cash you will fell the spending more than using it from a card.
*Ultimate level:
- Catalog your spendings and throwen out products. It feels time consuming, but if you do it regularly and in a proper way than you can analyze the faults on your shopping. Like you throw out products before consuming all. e.g: you throw out 3 eggs from the 10 evey 2 weeks. You can check if the smaller package is saving you money or not. Maybe a 2 boxes of 6 pack save you money on the long term.
There are several apps for this case, but you can use excel or google table too. A good sheet of data can be analyzed various ways. Just dont let it grown to big, purge it some times (or at least remove it from the internet to an external drive)
big shopping in 1 go is the fastest way to overspend, its the same with buying cloths, after 3 4 items you prob dont even know what you want anymore and just do stupid shopping XD
That's really good advice!! Thanks for sharing!!!