Money! Money! --- Tips on Budgeting and Housekeeping (1)

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The first items should be superfluous and ridiculous pieces of advice. From what I gather from the media, however, they are neither. 1. When you go shopping, think beforehand how much money you can spend. When you’ve spent it all, switch over to window shopping or return home. Don’t take a credit card or cheques with you, pay cash. When your purse is empty, you aren’t tempted. 2. Of course, a credit card can be useful, especially when you buy expensive items (for example a car) and don't want to walk around with your pockets full of cash. But do you really need more than one? Maybe you belong to the people who think that a second credit card doubles the amount of money they’ve got in their accounts? Wake up, it doesn’t. 3. Beware of price reductions! 30%, 40%, 50% off! Isn’t that great? Only if you planned to buy the item anyway before you saw the reduction. Otherwise, it’s nonsense to buy it with so-and-so many percents off. Have you ever considered the fact that you’ll save 100% if you don’t buy it at all? If a shop-assistant gets on your nerves by urging you to buy something because you save a lot of money by doing so, tell them that you’d rather save the whole sum by not buying it at all. This will shut them up. 4. Why do we have to have so many different products to clean our rooms? Why should we need a different product for each room? Find out which washing-up liquid is good for the skin of your hands (it probably won’t be the most expensive brand) and find out what you can clean with it besides dishes. My experiences is: You can also clean the kitchen floor and stone steps with it. Fill some water and some drops of the washing-up liquid in an empty plastic bottle with a spray nozzle and you can clean also windows and mirrors. 5. For the toilet bowl so-called cleaning vinegar is best. It’s cheap and not perilous to your health like the poisonous substances the ad people tell us to use. A thought: why are housewives so obsessed with cleaning the inside of the bowls until they sparkle and the last bacteria are killed? We don’t drink from them. It’s much more important that the seats be clean. This, you may have guessed it already, can be reached with water and washing-up liquid. You can also save a lot of money if you don’t clean your flat/house so often. If you don’t have a chimney-sweep or a road construction worker in your family, no long-haired pet and/or no small children, why should you clean every other day? Never clean *before* visitors come. Clean when they’ve left, otherwise, you have to clean twice. (Check out No 1 and 2 of the series by clicking on the tag at the top of the screen!) --- photo: pixabay