From tighter budget to no-spend days: Three habits millennials can adopt for financial security

October 10, 2021 02:22 PM AEDT | By Ashish

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Millennials are generally known for their spending habits.

Compared to the older generation, this lot comes with completely different priorities in life.

Their spending is more on convenience, online shopping, debt payments, food away from home, travel, and variety of digital services.

Millennials are generally known for their spending habits. Compared to the older generation, this lot comes with completely different priorities in life. Their spending is more on convenience, online shopping, debt payments, food away from home, travel, and variety of digital services. The older generation criticises them for not making enough savings.

Despite a large difference in the thinking and outlook towards life, millennials can definitely pick a few tips from the older generation to make their life more secure, if not already.

Here are three habits millennials can adopt:

Tighter budget

It is always good to plan your month according to a budget. Thus, planning a budget is the most important financial lesson a person can learn from the older generation. This way, they can save more money for their rainy days. In addition, a budget helps to track spending. In case you already have a budget, and still unable to save then tighten up your purse strings more.

The second is to pay your loan bills on time. It is important to pay your credit card loan, car payments or healthcare bulls timely to get your finances in order.

Way towards a large corpus

Experts also talk about monthly automatic deduction to save for future. The saved money can be put in a mutual fund to earn more returns. After some time, you would find your savings growing in a large corpus.

The last if to learn about the intricacies in the taxation system. It is important to learn how it works. You must calculate how much money you will be getting in hand after tax deductions. understanding on the taxation system can help to claim appropriate deductions.

No-spend days

In case you are finding it difficult to still limit your spending, then start observing no-spend days at least a week in a month. This way, you can have a much better idea about where your money is going.

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