Comments on: 31 Days To Fix Your Finances, Day 24: Evaluating Your Expenses – Entertainment & Hobbies http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/31-days-to-fix-your-finances-day-24-evaluating-your-expenses-entertainment-hobbies/ Simple, applicable personal finance advice for the modern world Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:22:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/31-days-to-fix-your-finances-day-24-evaluating-your-expenses-entertainment-hobbies/comment-page-1/#comment-3890 Chris Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:46:02 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/31-days-to-fix-your-finances-day-24-evaluating-your-expenses-entertainment-hobbies/#comment-3890 The thing I'm doing with subjective purchases is budgeting $100 dollars a week to them. I don't worry about blowing money on stuff I want when I know that there is a limit to my spending. Before I was purchasing entertainment items that kept adding up. I must have been spending 2-300 dollars every week on crap. Since then just being mindful of what I am spending has kept the happiness level about the same, while cutting my spending WAY down. The thing I’m doing with subjective purchases is budgeting $100 dollars a week to them. I don’t worry about blowing money on stuff I want when I know that there is a limit to my spending.

Before I was purchasing entertainment items that kept adding up. I must have been spending 2-300 dollars every week on crap.

Since then just being mindful of what I am spending has kept the happiness level about the same, while cutting my spending WAY down.

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