How to avoid over expenses and have discipline

[Juse14]

When it comes to saving, many people save money by reducing rations or reducing adequate food intake. They do this to save money, but what happens is it weakens our immune system and makes us more susceptible to disease. which in the end they spend their savings to go to the hospital.

Saving is important, but don't let it affect your health. If we want to save money, we must not depend on just one job. In the sense that we have to open a new business or look for side jobs such as trading and others, so that we have additional income to save.

That is a mistake in interpreting saving and ignoring the need for food as a fulfillment of life will be much worse because we will be faced with disease problems and when someone places savings in an inappropriate amount then what will happen will only be more problem. To increase savings, what we have to do is seek more income by working in several places or building a small business according to ability and from here we can make a portion of savings that is much more stable and continues to improve.

Ignoring health for reasons of saving is a bad decision and I don't think this is the right decision. Health will be far more important than money and the better health we have, the more productive we will be in making money. How is it possible for people to save if their health is compromised and where can they get the money from.

You both are right. Health is wealth as well, that’s why it should always come in priority. While saving is a positive habit, but you should only save when you are capable to save, and not putting other things in compromised just to make it happen. Furthermore, the only way to save more is to increase your income. Do not settle in just one job. Add some side hustles that fit your skills. If not, develop your skills so you can be fit to your chosen side jobs.

Greatly said, I can't agree more, while we are into investment and activity that can lead us to profit and earn money, we also need to invest in our health.  If we avoid getting sick, our productivity will never be hindered.  Imagine working overtime on a daily basis for a month just to end up getting sick the following days.  This kind of scenario will cost us a lot of money and at the same time hinder our productivity.  If we do not want to prioritize our health then at least make our activity balance so that our body won't be overworked.  Having everything in harmony is also one way of preserving our health and make us more productive in creating wealth through different sources.

Thanks in advance for clarifying what I mean. And one more thing I want to say besides we need to take care of our health. We also need to avoid what is called "Instalments". Sometimes someone is willing to work overtime and look for a part-time job to get money to pay installments and even worse, they are still working at an advanced age because the installments haven't ended yet.

Someone makes installments from most people that I see not because of need but because of desire and high ego. Want to look capable by others have a luxury car and a magnificent house.

[Razmirraz]

1. Make a realistic budget
           In budgeting it is important that we consider everything. It should be realistic and achievable, It cannot be said that the budget is only 20$ for a week for food if you are 8 people who will eat at home. Plan what to eat every day and budget for it. Write down all the ingredients or how much to buy and how much it will cost in pmashae or gasoline if there is a car. Do everything with consideration and do it consistently.
Stop yourself from buying things you don't need, like buying coffee at starbucks when you can just buy 3 in 1 sachet coffee that just tastes like coffee. Because if we cannot prevent such expenses, include them in the budget.

Recording the budget that will be used and how much can actually be spent and can be saved is one way to manage finances or to achieve financial goals. In order to realize balanced financial management between income and expenditure, it is necessary to record or make a realistic budget, expenditures made must be based on prearranged records.
Apart from having to balance income with expenses, it is necessary to determine the amount of money to be saved or invested, besides that it is also necessary to separate the wants and needs in spending. To avoid over budgeting, it's important to review your family's mid and long-term financial goals and think about what you want to do with the money set aside each month.

[m2017]

1. Make a realistic budget
           In budgeting it is important that we consider everything. It should be realistic and achievable, It cannot be said that the budget is only 20$ for a week for food if you are 8 people who will eat at home. Plan what to eat every day and budget for it. Write down all the ingredients or how much to buy and how much it will cost in pmashae or gasoline if there is a car. Do everything with consideration and do it consistently.
Stop yourself from buying things you don't need, like buying coffee at starbucks when you can just buy 3 in 1 sachet coffee that just tastes like coffee. Because if we cannot prevent such expenses, include them in the budget.

You can't compare coffee from Starbucks with coffee 3 in 1. Actually, the inner content is not the same. If you are used to one level of life, eating and drinking the appropriate products, then you probably will not want to switch to 3-in-1 products. Maybe then immediately switch to drinking plain water and eating only bread? How long can you hold out like this for the sake of reducing overspending? Is it worth it to unnecessarily give up everything you need in your life in order to cut costs?

It will be possible to avoid overspending only until you hit your usual standard of living, which will grow as your financial condition improves. Once you reach a comfortable level, you will not want to go back to your old eating and drinking (analogy with food). That is, savings by reducing overspending will be possible only in certain redistributions.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Managing expenses and maintaining discipline can be challenging, but here are a few strategies you can try: create a budget and stick to it, differentiate between wants and needs, avoid impulse buying, set savings goals, track your expenses, and practice self-control. Remember, small steps can lead to big financial wins!

These are nice and interesting advise recommended, if he can cut the cost to other things of no value and set priority of things that matters alot, it will help in monitoring what and what we spend our money for, also there are other things we need to pay attention to, we have to know how to set order of priority in terms of budget and needs through adequate planning, we should end the lavish spendings on liabilities and begin to invest on profitable assets.

[Fortify]

Isn't it stressful when we spend more than expected, right? especially if we follow a budget, having a smart spending habit is a good way to avoid such situations or events.

1. Make a realistic budget
           In budgeting it is important that we consider everything. It should be realistic and achievable, It cannot be said that the budget is only 20$ for a week for food if you are 8 people who will eat at home. Plan what to eat every day and budget for it. Write down all the ingredients or how much to buy and how much it will cost in pmashae or gasoline if there is a car. Do everything with consideration and do it consistently.
Stop yourself from buying things you don't need, like buying coffee at starbucks when you can just buy 3 in 1 sachet coffee that just tastes like coffee. Because if we cannot prevent such expenses, include them in the budget.

2. Find out what triggers the cost
            It's important that we know this if it's stress, boredom, pressure from friends, need to follow the trend and so on. It is important that we have discipline in these things if you want to avoid overspending. For example, if you're bored, you hang out online shopping at Lazada, Amazon, and others, this habit should be replaced with something more productive, such as cleaning the house and others where you can avoid it and do something good.

3. Break down luxury expenses
             Try to list the things you have spent and separate the luxury and the things you have spent. It is important that you know what is really needed and the word I deserve it.

4. Make the 24 hour rule
             This rule helped me when I was building in this way. Because when I want to buy something, I put it off for 24 hours, and during this time I learn how to assess these things. Usually the excitement we experience disappears immediately after a few hours. You imagine the sacrifices you will make when you accomplish them. Like the small savings you have or sometimes we will even borrow the money we will use here. At least in this way we can avoid impulsive buying or bursts of emotion.

5. Set a budget
            Allocate a limit on expenses, know all areas of expenses from food, rent, electricity, water, shopping and other things related to spending. Once you set all of your spending limits, make sure to follow them and do it because everything will be ignored if you don't do it.

I hope this somehow helped us and the community here on the forum.

You have to be careful with things like luxuries and determine what you really want from life. If you want to retire a bit earlier and can think that far ahead into the future, then that expensive car that you have to finance for five years will be eating away at money, paying a loan interest rate, that instead could have been invested and tripled itself over 20 years. Some people are happy with a cheaper runaround that will get them from A to B, but others consider driving to be their passion and may actively make that decision which should not be faulted. Same with anything else, that 5k one week river cruise could be nice, but for one thousand you could probably get a lot too.

[Rockstarguy]

Managing expenses and maintaining discipline can be challenging, but here are a few strategies you can try: create a budget and stick to it, differentiate between wants and needs, avoid impulse buying, set savings goals, track your expenses, and practice self-control. Remember, small steps can lead to big financial wins!

With the rate at which things are expensive adhering to a strict budget can be very hard. Nevertheless one has to be very deliberate about working towards financial security. To buttress your point a bit, having solid investments can also be a key tool not only in building wealth but also in managing current and future finances. That means even with making budgets, scale of preference, and self-control, one has to deliberately set specific amounts either weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually bottom line whatever works for you, to set money aside for stable investments that will yield returns.

[Woodie]

When one talks about having discipline of how money is used, it all comes down to having a budget that you will follow nomatter the circumstances!! Yes this includes emergencies as others go out of their budget to spend extra which shouldn't be the case, as you need to allocate some money that will go towards miscellaneous items or emergencies so that when that time comes...the huge bills dont hurt your pocket or cause some hypertension...

Managing expenses and maintaining discipline can be challenging, but here are a few strategies you can try: create a budget and stick to it, differentiate between wants and needs, avoid impulse buying, set savings goals, track your expenses, and practice self-control. Remember, small steps can lead to big financial wins!

Easier said than done, this is from a personal experience 

Btw, from my observation...why is it that women find it easy to budget as co.pared to the men who spend without considering budgets

[milewilda]

Isn't it stressful when we spend more than expected, right? especially if we follow a budget, having a smart spending habit is a good way to avoid such situations or events.

1. Make a realistic budget
           In budgeting it is important that we consider everything. It should be realistic and achievable, It cannot be said that the budget is only 20$ for a week for food if you are 8 people who will eat at home. Plan what to eat every day and budget for it. Write down all the ingredients or how much to buy and how much it will cost in pmashae or gasoline if there is a car. Do everything with consideration and do it consistently.
Stop yourself from buying things you don't need, like buying coffee at starbucks when you can just buy 3 in 1 sachet coffee that just tastes like coffee. Because if we cannot prevent such expenses, include them in the budget.

2. Find out what triggers the cost
            It's important that we know this if it's stress, boredom, pressure from friends, need to follow the trend and so on. It is important that we have discipline in these things if you want to avoid overspending. For example, if you're bored, you hang out online shopping at Lazada, Amazon, and others, this habit should be replaced with something more productive, such as cleaning the house and others where you can avoid it and do something good.

3. Break down luxury expenses
             Try to list the things you have spent and separate the luxury and the things you have spent. It is important that you know what is really needed and the word I deserve it.

4. Make the 24 hour rule
             This rule helped me when I was building in this way. Because when I want to buy something, I put it off for 24 hours, and during this time I learn how to assess these things. Usually the excitement we experience disappears immediately after a few hours. You imagine the sacrifices you will make when you accomplish them. Like the small savings you have or sometimes we will even borrow the money we will use here. At least in this way we can avoid impulsive buying or bursts of emotion.

5. Set a budget
            Allocate a limit on expenses, know all areas of expenses from food, rent, electricity, water, shopping and other things related to spending. Once you set all of your spending limits, make sure to follow them and do it because everything will be ignored if you don't do it.

I hope this somehow helped us and the community here on the forum.

You have to be careful with things like luxuries and determine what you really want from life. If you want to retire a bit earlier and can think that far ahead into the future, then that expensive car that you have to finance for five years will be eating away at money, paying a loan interest rate, that instead could have been invested and tripled itself over 20 years. Some people are happy with a cheaper runaround that will get them from A to B, but others consider driving to be their passion and may actively make that decision which should not be faulted. Same with anything else, that 5k one week river cruise could be nice, but for one thousand you could probably get a lot too.

If luxuries thing like Gold and diamond or whatever precious which does have that appreciating value then i could say that it would be worth it, but if you are that coming after into those luxuries which turns out to be a
liability like luxury cars and other similar things then it would really be just that creating that kind of potential problem which would really be affecting your finances if you arent really that mindful nor really that wise
in regarding with your spending. Discipline would really be the key and if you arent really that mindful about on things around on how you do spend and on how you do allocate your finances then expect on what comes next. I agree on most words of most people on here that better set your priorities first before among others on which leisure and luxury things or vacation or travel should be on your least priority. They can wait and
what you should really be in concern about is on how you should really be that gaining more income source on which you could really be able to support if you are really that kind or type of spender.

[dothebeats]

When one talks about having discipline of how money is used, it all comes down to having a budget that you will follow nomatter the circumstances!! Yes this includes emergencies as others go out of their budget to spend extra which shouldn't be the case, as you need to allocate some money that will go towards miscellaneous items or emergencies so that when that time comes...the huge bills dont hurt your pocket or cause some hypertension...

Managing expenses and maintaining discipline can be challenging, but here are a few strategies you can try: create a budget and stick to it, differentiate between wants and needs, avoid impulse buying, set savings goals, track your expenses, and practice self-control. Remember, small steps can lead to big financial wins!

Easier said than done, this is from a personal experience 

Btw, from my observation...why is it that women find it easy to budget as co.pared to the men who spend without considering budgets

I also have noticed this. In most circumstances, women are expected to be the ones to do household budgeting as men provide the income. Women are the ones to handle transactions in terms of paying the bills, doing groceries, and just generally having the knowledge of when and how much something needs to be paid for, and what is too much in terms of the income getting by the household (may it be from the sole income of the man or both man and woman of the house).

According to an article by Forbes, back in 2016, women budgeted better than men due to three general reasons: (1) women plan while men are impulsive, (2) women avoid risks, and (3) women are not afraid to ask for help. For more understanding of these points, and a complete explanation of them, here's the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gingerdean/2016/05/28/why-women-budget-better-than-men-and-what-they-can-learn-from-us/?sh=61318c2469b9

However, bare in mind that the article is from 2016, and I'm sure there are more and better articles out there explaining this and even debunking the idea.

[Raceonsucced]

Discipline is the key to everything. If you are disciplined and follow all the rules, then your finances will be very well managed. And before we spend something, we must first think about whether it is as needed or not. Thanks OP all these tips really helped.

[radjie]

Sometimes expenses are difficult to predict every month, even though we have detailed everything, there are always urgent needs that require us to incur additional costs
Perhaps the most important thing is to get into the habit of saving a fixed amount every month, so that we can have reserve funds when needed, and are always productive in seeking additional financial input, so that we can meet our main needs.

[ancafe]

Thanks in advance for clarifying what I mean. And one more thing I want to say besides we need to take care of our health. We also need to avoid what is called "Instalments". Sometimes someone is willing to work overtime and look for a part-time job to get money to pay installments and even worse, they are still working at an advanced age because the installments haven't ended yet.

Someone makes installments from most people that I see not because of need but because of desire and high ego. Want to look capable by others have a luxury car and a magnificent house.

Health is a positive energy that can build one's enthusiasm to achieve success, therefore maintaining health is far more important than the desire to earn lots of money. The portion of work must be adjusted and when the break time comes, don't be forced to work because it will interfere with your health. Humans need 7 to 8 hours of rest at night and if we ignore this it will have an impact on our health and if the disease does not attack us in the near future then it is possible that in old age we will get sick. In the end, the money that we have collected must be used for treatment without stopping and the worst part is that the money runs out and we will leave the world because we die.

There is no pleasure in life if you keep trying to make extra money and positive energy is also present in your family if you are able to take advantage of it and providing time with them will actually foster enthusiasm and positive energy in our lives. Be responsible in all aspects to build financial strength and avoid non-productive loans because that is another problem that can also affect psychology and human health, live in moderation and don't force things beyond our capabilities.

[peter0425]

Isn't it stressful when we spend more than expected, right? especially if we follow a budget, having a smart spending habit is a good way to avoid such situations or events.

1. Make a realistic budget
           In budgeting it is important that we consider everything. It should be realistic and achievable, It cannot be said that the budget is only 20$ for a week for food if you are 8 people who will eat at home. Plan what to eat every day and budget for it. Write down all the ingredients or how much to buy and how much it will cost in pmashae or gasoline if there is a car. Do everything with consideration and do it consistently.
Stop yourself from buying things you don't need, like buying coffee at starbucks when you can just buy 3 in 1 sachet coffee that just tastes like coffee. Because if we cannot prevent such expenses, include them in the budget.

this one is the most functional ., because it is our actual budgeting that surely affect our living and funds if not taking properly.

2. Find out what triggers the cost
            It's important that we know this if it's stress, boredom, pressure from friends, need to follow the trend and so on. It is important that we have discipline in these things if you want to avoid overspending. For example, if you're bored, you hang out online shopping at Lazada, Amazon, and others, this habit should be replaced with something more productive, such as cleaning the house and others where you can avoid it and do something good.

actually the rule number one reflected on this completely because if you have budgeting you will never be triggered by anything.

3. Break down luxury expenses
             Try to list the things you have spent and separate the luxury and the things you have spent. It is important that you know what is really needed and the word I deserve it.

actually , if you are in legit budgeting , there is no chance that you will have luxurious buying because that will never comes out your mind, you will keep looking for cheaper way to buy or use.

4. Make the 24 hour rule
             This rule helped me when I was building in this way. Because when I want to buy something, I put it off for 24 hours, and during this time I learn how to assess these things. Usually the excitement we experience disappears immediately after a few hours. You imagine the sacrifices you will make when you accomplish them. Like the small savings you have or sometimes we will even borrow the money we will use here. At least in this way we can avoid impulsive buying or bursts of emotion.

another one that says by the first rule. you must take it not only 24/7 but also 366 days a year(above one from 365 days for surely implementing)

5. Set a budget
            Allocate a limit on expenses, know all areas of expenses from food, rent, electricity, water, shopping and other things related to spending. Once you set all of your spending limits, make sure to follow them and do it because everything will be ignored if you don't do it.

I hope this somehow helped us and the community here on the forum.
Other source:
https://www.incharge.org/financial-literacy/budgeting-saving/how-to-cut-your-expenses/
https://www.mymoneycoach.ca/blog/how-to-stop-spending-money-7-tips.html

i don't know why this needs to be broaden when it is completely happening if you follow the rule 1.

[bitterguy28]

4. Make the 24 hour rule
             This rule helped me when I was building in this way. Because when I want to buy something, I put it off for 24 hours, and during this time I learn how to assess these things. Usually the excitement we experience disappears immediately after a few hours. You imagine the sacrifices you will make when you accomplish them. Like the small savings you have or sometimes we will even borrow the money we will use here. At least in this way we can avoid impulsive buying or bursts of emotion.

This is really the strategy I am using right now because it is really working when you have the urge to buy, mostly right now that we can buy using our phones and are mostly easily tempted, like right now new phones and other stuff that you found nice, which again we know is not needed, but because we can't control ourselves when we buy, we have like 24 to 48 hours to know if you still need it or want it.

oif course , because what is the sense of having budgeting when you are skipping from it? if we only limit the time of budget meaning there is a cheat time and from that you can buy more and more and spend a lot?
having this 24/7 for me is the best and safe way to manage your money.

[Dave1]

Sometimes expenses are difficult to predict every month, even though we have detailed everything, there are always urgent needs that require us to incur additional costs
Perhaps the most important thing is to get into the habit of saving a fixed amount every month, so that we can have reserve funds when needed, and are always productive in seeking additional financial input, so that we can meet our main needs.

That is so true, that's why we really need to put everything down and so that we can manage some expenses and maybe put aside money for that one as we really don't know what the future holds.

Saving is not that really hard, it's that for some, we have impulse to buy anything that we don't actually need. And that's why we really commend people who can actually save money whether in banks or crypto just like the majority of us and have the mental discipline.

[WillyAp]

Saying to have discipline is easier than actually leading a disciplined life.
I know a lot of people who claim to be disciplined but cannot change their eating habits.
As many times we lie to ourselves.

[khiholangkang]

Sometimes expenses are difficult to predict every month, even though we have detailed everything, there are always urgent needs that require us to incur additional costs
Perhaps the most important thing is to get into the habit of saving a fixed amount every month, so that we can have reserve funds when needed, and are always productive in seeking additional financial input, so that we can meet our main needs.

That is so true, that's why we really need to put everything down and so that we can manage some expenses and maybe put aside money for that one as we really don't know what the future holds.

Saving is not that really hard, it's that for some, we have impulse to buy anything that we don't actually need. And that's why we really commend people who can actually save money whether in banks or crypto just like the majority of us and have the mental discipline.

Unexpected expenditure we can track actually with some conclusions from the previous months that became the basic material for the reference for the budget, so this returned to you where to save it for unexpected events that cost the previous time to be moved to the following month .
And honestly, budget planning is just a picture of it, it does not mean that fix expenditure for the next month so do not be fixated on the budget, it is only made for your limits in spending the next month, naturally many unexpected expenses, but should In the budget you can shift it and / or postpone it to cover the unexpected budget.

To regulate income is difficult, how much productivity you are, but the most important thing is in financial management, and financing budgets, for certain economy classes that have income limits or minimal salary count should not exaggerate desires that are not useful, it is better to use resources to fulfill That desire is to develop yourself and deepen your abilities so that your position is better if you have a deep ability in the field.

Saying to have discipline is easier than actually leading a disciplined life.
I know a lot of people who claim to be disciplined but cannot change their eating habits.
As many times we lie to ourselves.

Discipline or consider is not easy, because many people suggest to do it and require time in forming their habits, but it's okay, little by little, the longer you succeed in the discipline of a thing, then also apply to other things So that you have good discipline, especially in finance.

[red4slash]

Sometimes expenses are difficult to predict every month, even though we have detailed everything, there are always urgent needs that require us to incur additional costs
Perhaps the most important thing is to get into the habit of saving a fixed amount every month, so that we can have reserve funds when needed, and are always productive in seeking additional financial input, so that we can meet our main needs.

I have a breakdown of my exact expenses every month, I think I have to make sure to see how much I spend, and I also don't forget to always prepare extra money every month to be ready if there are urgent needs or sudden expenses. And from there I can set aside money to save and also I allocate and to invest.
I always differentiate money for saving and money for investing, why? yes it is a form of my preparation so that I don't have to sell my investment when something urgent happens in the future because I still have savings money ready for me to use.

This form of planning we must do, even though we never get into trouble but we don't know what will happen in the future, and when we don't prepare it will be a bigger problem.

[xSkylarx]

Sometimes expenses are difficult to predict every month, even though we have detailed everything, there are always urgent needs that require us to incur additional costs
Perhaps the most important thing is to get into the habit of saving a fixed amount every month, so that we can have reserve funds when needed, and are always productive in seeking additional financial input, so that we can meet our main needs.

I have a breakdown of my exact expenses every month, I think I have to make sure to see how much I spend, and I also don't forget to always prepare extra money every month to be ready if there are urgent needs or sudden expenses. And from there I can set aside money to save and also I allocate and to invest.
I always differentiate money for saving and money for investing, why? yes it is a form of my preparation so that I don't have to sell my investment when something urgent happens in the future because I still have savings money ready for me to use.

This form of planning we must do, even though we never get into trouble but we don't know what will happen in the future, and when we don't prepare it will be a bigger problem.

But lucky you as you are still able to budget your money, a lot of people right now that are having a headache because again it is the end of the month, they will receive their salary, they will then pay for the bills and also food on which they will try to budget it but it is not enough, though the solution on this is having another source of income if ever our income is just enough for sure we know how to budget or I don't know with other people but mostly I've known they really budgeting their money because if not we will struggle and forgot to pay other bills.

[Pamadar]

Sometimes expenses are difficult to predict every month, even though we have detailed everything, there are always urgent needs that require us to incur additional costs
Perhaps the most important thing is to get into the habit of saving a fixed amount every month, so that we can have reserve funds when needed, and are always productive in seeking additional financial input, so that we can meet our main needs.

I have a breakdown of my exact expenses every month, I think I have to make sure to see how much I spend, and I also don't forget to always prepare extra money every month to be ready if there are urgent needs or sudden expenses. And from there I can set aside money to save and also I allocate and to invest.
I always differentiate money for saving and money for investing, why? yes it is a form of my preparation so that I don't have to sell my investment when something urgent happens in the future because I still have savings money ready for me to use.

This form of planning we must do, even though we never get into trouble but we don't know what will happen in the future, and when we don't prepare it will be a bigger problem.

Good plan like that needs to execute the right way. If you have such kind of discipline, the chance that you will not
overspent your money and chance to be more stable in the future or in your retirement is possible.

It's hard to budget, but with willingness and determination to have a good life in your future, you will be able to
established a good and balance money management.

More on how you plan and how you perform to avoid making a mistake in spending your money.