Go on holiday in your country, instead of travelling abroad on a whim. Make the foreign trips an exceptional event, or better travel abroad only if you really need to, for work or for family reasons. This will also reduce your carbon footprint, by avoiding all those flights.
Spend your free time around the home, plant a garden, cook more frequently, take up a craft that you can do around your home.
Use the public transportation, if it is safe and practical, instead of driving your car to and from work.
Before buying something, consider how much you really need that object or service and the time you had to invest to gain the money you intend to spend on it.
Before paying someone else to do something for you, think well if you could not do it yourself. Do you really need a cleaning lady? What stops you from cleaning your own home? Is it time or is it laziness? Or is it peer-pressure and keeping up with the neighbours?
Eat less or no pre-prepared food and sweets. It is better for your health and for your wallet.
Do not pay a gym subscription, if you only go there rarely. You can exercise for free by running in your neighbourhood or in nature, by working in your garden or in your house, by walking instead of driving over short distances.
Avoid eating out frequently. Cook more at home. Prepare small sandwiches or a fruit to eat as a treat at work.
Avoid shopping for food frequently. It is better to go shopping for food one or two times per week and try to buy on those occasions all you really need for the week. Use your imagination, and the internet, to prepare meals with the ingredients you have in the house, before running to the nearest store the tenth time this week.
Buy less clothes and shoes. Your clothes and shoes do not deteriorate so quickly. It is better to buy better quality objects, rarely. Make sure you dig deep into your closets before going out to buy something new. Also taking care of your clothes and shoes will insure a longer life. Don’t worry so much about the latest fashion, because it is bound to change.
Have a “zero-euro” day, a day on which you don’t spend any money at all.
Do not worry so much about other people’s opinion and lifestyle and do not try to mould your life to suit their expectations. In reality nobody really cares about you and your life, except, hopefully, your close family and friends, so it is more important for you to be happy and secure in your life, than to have other people’s approval.
Spend your free time around the home, plant a garden, cook more frequently, take up a craft that you can do around your home.
Use the public transportation, if it is safe and practical, instead of driving your car to and from work.
Before buying something, consider how much you really need that object or service and the time you had to invest to gain the money you intend to spend on it.
Before paying someone else to do something for you, think well if you could not do it yourself. Do you really need a cleaning lady? What stops you from cleaning your own home? Is it time or is it laziness? Or is it peer-pressure and keeping up with the neighbours?
Eat less or no pre-prepared food and sweets. It is better for your health and for your wallet.
Do not pay a gym subscription, if you only go there rarely. You can exercise for free by running in your neighbourhood or in nature, by working in your garden or in your house, by walking instead of driving over short distances.
Avoid eating out frequently. Cook more at home. Prepare small sandwiches or a fruit to eat as a treat at work.
Avoid shopping for food frequently. It is better to go shopping for food one or two times per week and try to buy on those occasions all you really need for the week. Use your imagination, and the internet, to prepare meals with the ingredients you have in the house, before running to the nearest store the tenth time this week.
Buy less clothes and shoes. Your clothes and shoes do not deteriorate so quickly. It is better to buy better quality objects, rarely. Make sure you dig deep into your closets before going out to buy something new. Also taking care of your clothes and shoes will insure a longer life. Don’t worry so much about the latest fashion, because it is bound to change.
Have a “zero-euro” day, a day on which you don’t spend any money at all.
Do not worry so much about other people’s opinion and lifestyle and do not try to mould your life to suit their expectations. In reality nobody really cares about you and your life, except, hopefully, your close family and friends, so it is more important for you to be happy and secure in your life, than to have other people’s approval.