Controlling your expenses!
Sometimes, changing a few consumer habits is all that's
needed to improve your financial situation.
- Always pay cash and avoid using credit
cards.
- Prepare a
budget of your monthly income and expenses.
- Don't buy now pay later.
- Be wary of telephone and door-to-door
sales solicitation.
- Don't commit to a contract without
knowing all of your obligations.
- Ask yourself if a purchase is worth
the stress you'll feel at the end of the month.
- Calculate how much time you will
have to work to pay off a purchase.
- Always know where your
finances stand. Never avoid this reality.
- Rather than make compulsive purchases, find
less expensive ways of compensating.
- Analyze the way you buy in order to
better know your personality and make good resolutions.
- Draw up a list of expenses for a few
months to know where your money is going.
- Prepare a balance sheet
and analyze your
financial situation at least once a year.
To learn more about controlling your expenses or
restructuring your budget, we
suggest you contact one of our
counsellors at an office near you, for a free,
confidential consultation.
