20 ways to throw money down the drain
Get Rich / / December 20, 2019
1. Bottled water
The myth of the need to drink eight glasses of water a day more than alive. It is believed that the producers of bottled liquid strongly support him.
It is better to take water with you from home. For soothing it can boil or filter it, and it still will be cheaper than buying bottled liquid.
2. The premiere in the cinema
Rush to the cinema for the first sessions of the new film is in the same case: you're a fan with the experience, and for absenteeism premiere you kicked out of the fandom. The price of tickets will decrease significantly if not the weekend (and kinonovinki usually start to show on Thursday), then the next week.
3. 3D-sessions
studies have provenTesting the Effectiveness of 3D Film for Laboratory-Based Studies of EmotionThat 2D--and 3D-films have the same emotional effect. So, choosing a 2D, not only do you get exactly the same experience, but also get out of the room without annoying spots on the nose, and save 30-50% of the ticket price.
4. Old mobile tariff
The Conservatives can not change years of mobile tariffs and service charges significantly more than their more flexible friends. To attract new customers, operators constantly generate proposals with favorable terms from which you can choose the one that meets your needs. At the same time, staying at the old rate, you can pay, for example, a huge SMS package that you need whether just in 2018.
5. Excess food
according to estimatesovereat fruit Federal State Statistics Service, the Russians throw 20-25% of food purchased. The trash goes a quarter of fruit, 15% of canned meat, 20% of potatoes and flour, 5-6% of yogurt, 3% of bread and milk. To avoid becoming part of this statistic, stop buying too much at the same time save money.
6. Plastic bags
Stop the blame on the question saleswoman in a supermarket: "The package will take?" It would seem, 5 rubles - a small waste. But if the shop every day, only on packages for the year will leave more than 1.8 thousand rubles. Whereas light canvas bag will cost 50 rubles, and solve the problem of carrying products for years. Moreover, abandoning the packages, you reduce your contribution to environmental pollution.
7. smaller clothes size
You saw at the store the perfect thing, but your size, alas, no. "So what, because I will lose weight in the summer. Or the New Year. In an extreme case, by next summer "- and you think you're going to the checkout. But the reality is harsh: you either do not lose weight, lose weight, or more than you need for this thing, or it goes out of fashion until you go to the goal.
8. uncomfortable shoes
The people are legends, that somewhere there lives a girl who bought the shoes three sizes too small, distribute them, and then went, until the soles are not wiped. But often uncomfortable pair of living out his days on the back shelves of the cabinet.
9. Souvenirs
Various figurines, frames and other fancy but useless products regularly fall into the tops of the worst gifts, failures of design decisions and others disapprove. But sometimes the hand tremble, and you're paying a porcelain cat or a symbol of the year.
10. Fines and penalties
Sometimes circumstances are working against us: do not have time to pay utility services, make money on the loan, you do not notice change the signs on the road and turns under the "brick". In these situations, the penalties - something inevitable and hurtful. However, in most cases you will pay for their own negligence. A little discipline, and this cost will be reduced, if not removed.
11. Bonuses in online games
There is a whole layer of games that are designed to pull you out of money. Among them, for example, the format of "three in a row" for mobile phones. You install an application, and it begins to ask for money for extra lives and power-ups.
But first, the game has no logical end, and then paid, you just prolong the game, rather than approaching victory. Secondly, small spending eventually will develop in the amount for which you can buy the full game with an excellent story and cool puzzles.
12. Goods for Slimming
Losing weight - it is a long and laborious process, so the temptation to buy a magic pill, berries, gray-brown tea, suit-sauna and exercise machines questionable, but would not play sports and keep eating donuts. At best, these tools only hurt the wallet, without affecting the body, and at worst - can lead to health problems. Therefore it is better to calculate its calorie norm and fed in accordance with these figures.
13. prepackaged goods
Some stores may lie next to apples for 100 rubles per kilogram loose and they - in plastic box at the price of 150 rubles per kilogram. In this case, put your own apples in a bag and weigh them - not such a difficult task. Similarly, the situation with cheese, sausage, biscuits and so on. Just take a few minutes to compare prices and choose the best offer.
14. A large package of TV channels
You faithfully pay package provider from thousands of channels while watching the two of them and it was only at the weekend. Probably, it is possible for a small fee to watch the programs on the channel site or find better packages from a competitor.
15. status goods
If you buy a watch worth three salary of the average Russian, and at the same time earn 20 times more than he did, that this paragraph does not apply to you. When buying such a watch puts the whole family for a long pasta diet, spending raises questions expediency. The more that the other owners of similar chronometers still do not consider you for her, something will give you (spoiler: everything except the clock).
16. Psevdodieticheskie products
Different muesli, bars, special salad dressings, low-fat yogurt are more expensive counterparts, do not promise to make you slimmer. However, many of the products 'slimming' feature high-calorie, contain a lot of sugar and far removed from the norms of a healthy diet.
17. The best tools and equipment for a new hobby
If a new hobby allows, not necessarily immediately invest in it a fortune. For example, you bought a ticket to the pool, but it is not completely sure that you have enough for a fuse to go there for a year. In this case, do not buy a hat for the Olympians, which gives the maximum streamlining itself brings you to an opposite side. Simply cap.
18. Small personal loans
Stores offer to buy cheap goods in installments, which hiding loans. If it is not a thing of prime necessity, it is easier to save up for and the right not to overpay bank.
19. Snacks at the box office
Chocolates, candies, chewing gum treacherously waiting for us at the cash registers in shops and petrol stations. If you came to buy bread and chocolate, it does not matter where you get them, it is justified by the purchase of the list. Otherwise you just impulsively and lowered the money for another unnecessary thing.
20. Coffee to go
If you're used to working every day to start with a cappuccino for 150 rubles a year will spend about 37 thousand. The figure makes one wonder whether it is necessary to this habit.
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