Your Budget Is Not A Threat
It can be hard to keep track of a budget in the beginning. You need to be good at organizing your receipts, and also be dedicated enough to keep strict records of every transaction. Little things add up very easily, and you’ll forget each time just how easily. You’ll be pretty surprised how much is left at the end of the week or month. The best way to begin, is with simple and practical things.
First, before anything else, leave all your cards at home. Put your credit card in an envelope and forget about it for a while. Once a week, take your bank card to the bank, and withdraw cash money. Use this cash for as much as you can. Seeing that green plopping down hurts much worse than sliding your card. Just make certain you don’t try to creep back into using your card because it makes shopping fun again. Shopping is more fun when you buy something you know you can afford. Anything else is a diversion that bites you later.
Then there are service charges. It doesn’t matter how little they are, they are not your friend. It’s can be around fifty cents to use a card at the gas station. That may not seem like much, but it comes out to 2 dollars a month which is almost twenty-five dollars a year.
Then the second week is considerably easier than the first week. You might even end up buying generic brands sometimes, and deciding which little purchases are more important than your regular groceries’ quality.
And then, of course, service charges are a big one. No matter how tiny, they are never your friends. It can be about forty-five cents to use a card at the gas station. That may not be very much, but it can come out to almost two dollars a month, which is over twenty-one dollars a year.
Not very much? How about some other charges? It’s a bad idea to use a debit card just about anywhere. They’re full of service charges a lot of the time. A different bank’s ATM can charge up to two dollars every time. The other bank will help itself to some of that money, and your bank doesn’t like it when you give even one rusty old penny to the competition. Why didn’t you read the microscopic, boiler-plate contract that came with your card?
Check Cards are also a way they sneak up on you. Their little logos make it seem like it’s a “credit card” transaction, but the money is just vanishing from your account. But you already knew that. Therefore, you also already know that once in a while these cards are transacted as debit cards. If you can swipe it, great. Bypass the service charge by choosing credit. Sometimes the clerk won’t ask, and sometimes the transaction can only be done as debit. Make sure you know what’s going on with your Check Card.
If you’re in control of your personal budget each week, your personal finances will make a lot more sense. Something as simple as leaving your cards at home can save a lot, and keeping track of your little transactions and making good use of them can work wonders as well.
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