528 - 14 Tips to Kill Impulse Buying and Save Money

Money Girl

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Investing, Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Instead of caving to impulse shopping, use these 14 tips and tricks to resist bad spending habits so you can save more money. Read the transcript. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/money-finance/saving-spending/stop-impulse-buying https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/MoneyGirlQDT https://twitter.com/LauraAdams

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0:00.0	Hello my friends I'm Laura Adams and author, speaker and consumer advocate. I've been
0:10.8	writing and hosting Money Girl since 2008 and I am so glad you are here with
0:15.8	me today.
0:17.1	This week I'm pulling a show out of the archive for you that I also need to hear. Have you noticed how everything seems to be on sale right now?
0:26.0	I'm getting bombarded with emails from all my favorite stores about sales.
0:31.0	You could go broke saving so much money. As we spend more time at home due to the
0:35.9	pandemic, I think it's a little easier to be tempted by online sales almost as a form of entertainment.
0:42.3	So this show is packed with very almost as a form of entertainment.
0:43.0	So this show is packed with very actionable tips about how to pull back and avoid those impulse
0:49.0	purchases.
0:51.0	Please enjoy it and I'll be back next week with a new show.
0:55.0	Okay, on to today's show called 14 Tips to Stop Impulse Buying and Save Money,
1:02.0	which is episode number 528.
1:05.0	No matter how frugal you are, no one is immune from making impulse purchases from time to time.
1:12.0	And this is such an important topic because the more
1:15.9	you give into those impulses the more harmful it can be to your financial life.
1:20.8	Overspending is a common barrier to achieving key financial goals,
1:26.0	whatever your goals may be, whether you're trying to save 15% of your income for retirement,
1:32.0	or maybe you're really trying to build your of your
1:35.0	emergency fund from scratch.
1:37.0	Whatever your goals are, they typically entail
1:40.0	carving out more of your budget to go toward that goal.
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