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Control Your Spending Tutorial
Now since you have tracked your spending, you can proceed to start controling your spendings
Please remember it's your money and it's up to you to control your spending. You can do it now
because you can clearly see what you need to see.
How to control spending
Controlling spending can simply be done by:
1) using the final list of items you spend money on,
write down two columns
On the first column write things that's essential to
your life, health and job
On the second column write down things that you
spend money that isn't essential to the well being of
your life.
2) Evaluate both columns.
3) Look at the first column and ask this question.
What can I do to reduce the spending on this items? Then write the answer down for each expense.
4) From the second column, look at these expenses and since they are not essential to your life, you can choose to eliminate them from your spending.
5) Stop Spending money on non-essential items.