Check Your Understanding: Avoiding Temptation Check Your Understanding: Avoiding Temptation Enter your text here 1. What's the problem with shopping when you're hungry? You're more likely to snack on free samples, with primes your brain to want to continue the rewards. This makes you spend more overall. You'll taste things and then decide to buy them. You'll spend money on fast food, when you could have eaten before you left for the store. 2. What are exceptional expenses, and why do you need to be conscious of them? Once in a lifetime opportunities that are worth a splurge. These are good reasons to break your budget. We underestimate the cost of things we buy at random -- like concert tickets or celebratory dinners. Not only do we not budget for these expenses in advance, but we're willing to spend more on them because we view them as out of the ordinary. Small, everyday purchases that add up fast. 3. What's the point of asking yourself the five questions? To make yourself focus on whether this is something you really need or want. To stop yourself from spending money. To cut your credit card usage. Enter your text here Time's up SECTION 1: Getting Started Lesson 1: Introduction3:39 SECTION 2 Lesson 2: Strategies for Saving More 5:05 Check Your Understanding: Strategies for Saving More2 questions Lesson 3: Setting Goals7:46 Check Your Understanding: Setting Goals 3 questions SECTION 3: Lesson 4: Cutting Food Costs4:54 Check Your Understanding: Cutting Food Costs 3 questions Lesson 5: Avoiding Temptation4:24 Check Your Understanding: Avoiding Temptation 3 questions Lesson 6: Cutting Necessary Expenses5:45 Check Your Understanding: Cutting Necessary Expenses 3 questions
