Saving Money & Wasting Less

Lesson 6: Budgeting

Lesson Questions

1. What are the advantages of 'paying yourself' at a time and frequency that suits you? Would it make payday feel different than it does now?
2. Have you created a budget and stuck to it before? Has it worked for you in the past?
3. How does budgeting and paying yourself tie in with earlier lessons about living more deliberately and thinking about how you live, work, and eat?
4. Try to memorise the following quote from Dickens:

   Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty ought and six, result misery.

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