Website owner: James Miller
Ways People Squander Their Money
Ways in which people squander their money:
- buying high priced luxury foods such as liquor, junk
foods, sweets, pastry, packaged convenience foods, TV
dinners, sodas, high priced meats, etc. instead of basic
staple type foods
- eating out at restaurants and fast food places a lot
- buying a lot more house than they really need (which
brings for them high property tax bills, high heat and
air conditioning bills, high costs in furniture to
furnish the house, etc.)
- buying expensive, luxury cars (this practice costs them
far more than they realize)
- owning several cars when they could get by with one
- buying a lot more clothes than they really need. Also,
buying clothes that are way overpriced (due to being
stylish, brand name, etc.). Women especially are guilty
of buying too many clothes and clothes that are
overpriced (often wearing them not more than once or
twice if at all).
- buying a lot of things that they really don't need and
never use (i.e. motorboats, motor homes, kitchen
appliances, etc.)
- spending a lot of money on expensive entertainment when
they could enjoy themselves just as much doing things
that would cost them little or nothing (example:
expensive trips and vacations)
- feeding bad habits (i.e. buying cigarettes, liquor, drugs,
sodas, junk food)
- making poor purchases and financial decisions through
ignorance, indifference, impulse buying, thoughtlessness,
lack of good judgment
- doing a lot more running around with their car (or cars)
than is necessary
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