Lifestyle Changes

I'm not a financial professional and this app is not financial advise. It's just merely my sole opinions and perspectives upon budgeting. That being said we'll proceed...

For the most part if you get good sleep, eat healthy and do moderate exercise this can save you so much money on transportation, medication, doctor bills, etc: while it may not erase those monthly checkups. Generally by living a healthy lifestyle you save more money. For example, Devices like Bas Rutten's O2 Trainer or the Wim Hof breathing method which have proven to help manage your asthma; thus can save you money long term. Another example of something I do which is I don't pay for a gym membership. I workout at home or just out at a local park. You can get fit without any equipment just a flat floor but if you need the extra weight you can easily fill a backpack with books and exercise with that. Another idea is to get a duffle bag and put 1 or more sand bags in it and duck tape which you can do bicep curls, tricep extensions, bench press, etc:

Whenever I'm unmotivated I look in what I call the accountability mirror and have a good long talk to myself summing it up in 1 simple sentence, "Excuses sound best to the person making them up!"

As far as transportation you can make it a regular habit of reducing the amount of weight in your vehicle thus saving you money in gas long term, and/or instead of driving to work you could ride the bus, car pool, ride a skateboard, scooter, walk or even ride a bike. Instead of paying for fast food you make your own at home. Instead of spending $1.75 for a bottle of water a day you could fill it at home, work, the office or McDonald's for free and save you $1.75/d - $13.30/w - $53.22/m - $638.75/y. Or even Starbucks coffee $7/d - $49/w - $196/m - $2,352/y. Another example would be to not pay for WiFi just use your phone's mobile data. I'm sure you can come up with other ways to save money as well, like price checking, coupons, etc:

Sometimes it's best to pay more to save more. Over the years I've had my share of cheap tools break in my hand like screwdrivers. So believe me when I say this it's best to pay the little extra money up front for a good tool then having to replace a cheaper one again and again. Always do your research first! Do they have a lifetime warranty, what's the company's history, is the company insured, majority of the review statistics, is the product new vs used, if used while it maybe cheaper why selling? These are just a few questions to ask before buying a good quality tool or product. Either it be a craftsman wrench, airless tires, an electric windproof plasma lighter, rechargeable batteries, etc:

"Depreciation is eating away at your car's value. Paying interest on an object that is dropping in value sounds like the essence of a horrow show" ~Clay Trader
"Price movement is always a result of an imbalance of the market cause when there's balance there's no movement. It's that simple!

Prices do not move when there's balance. There has to be an imbalance for people to bid them up or offer them lower.

The imbalance can be caused by biding it up or down purposefully by somebody like a hedge fund manager or an overabundance of buy orders in relation to the amount of sell orders.

The patterns basically measure the collective mind of the market, indicating when there is a higher probability of one thing happening over another, represented as an edge because patterns (edges) show up in every time frame, technical analysis turns the markets into an unending stream of opportunities to enrich oneself. Not on a trade-by-trade basis, but rather as a percentage over a series of trades.

Technical analysis does not, nor can it, get into the minds of any particular individual trader who has both the financial and psychological resources to either move prices or defend certain price levels." ~Mark Douglas

Plan For The Unexpected:

For a lot of people this can be a lifestyle change. In 2020 our whole planet experienced the COVID pandemic. Many people lost their job, business's fell to the ground, store shelves were empty, government mandates forcing citizens to stay in their homes, divorce rates skyrocketed, etc: Most of us that experienced the COVID pandemic never expected anything like that to happen, nor planned for it. So it's imperative to put money aside in your budget for emergencies, for retirement and death because we all will pass at some point. If you're a parent you're job is to make sure your child is well educated on being self sufficient and self sustaining while also living their life to the fullest. Part of that is also helping make their life easier after you pass. Prepay for your burial or cremation. It'll make an already difficult situation for them significantly easier.


It's easy to come up with reasons not to save money for an emergency, job loss, retirement or other need or goal, but not saving can cause considerable financial pain down the road. That's why it's smart to regularly put money in a savings account where it's available for whatever happens in the future.

"Saving is about mindset," says Bob Morrison, principal at Downing Street Wealth Management LLC, a financial planning firm in Littleton, Colo. "It doesn't matter whether you make minimal dollars or a significant amount, you should save a certain percentage and learn to live within that income because you have a responsibility to provide for yourself and your goals for the future."


Investing The Difference

There's lots of ways to make and lose money. Either it be in the stock market, crypto market, forex market, etc: Either it be day trading, swing trading, options, fractions, etc: some people just invest in dividends (a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves)) There's a lot of apps out there you can use to invest in like Robinhood, Webull, among others. With these two apps I mentioned if you register with my links you and I get a free stock.

In a nutshell, Robinhood is designed for complete beginners who are looking to trade stocks, ETFs, cryptos or options, all commission-free.

https://referral.robinhood.com/michaes2685/?_branch_match_id=774097653577852610

Webull is meant for intermediate to advanced traders who are looking to trade stocks, ETFs, and options, all commission-free.

https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=qERu1os6BXX7

There can be instances based upon your priorities where you tell yourself you just don't have room in your budget to be cutting expenses. In this case the only option is to make more money. Either it be leave your place of employment after acquiring another job that pays more or have a side hustle that can eventually replace your day job's income. Either it be drop shipping, resaling, wholesaling (aka flipping real estate contracts), affiliate marketing, blogging/vlogging, teaching, translating, etc: etc: 

When To Buy or DIY

I remember my dad taught me how to change and replace a faucet. He also taught me how to change and replace various household doors. These little things can save you a lot of money in the long run if you know what you're doing. If not it's best to educate yourself through reading, courses, maybe have a professional coach you to make sure you're doing it correctly or sometimes it's best to just hire a professional to do it themselves it all depends on you. There are of course other times where you know exactly how to do it you just don't want to spend the time on it you'd much rather focus your energy elsewhere especially if you have a business in this case hiring someone may also be best for your business. Again it all depends on you, your budget and your focus.

Sometimes it's also just nice to save by recycling and use things like plastic as rope, a bird feeder, a funnel, make into an ottoman, etc: or saving wood to use for a bon fire instead of having to pay for new wood, the sky's the limit here. You could even make more money recycling and refurbishing than you did when you got it.

Another example is this app I could've paid someone to make this app but because it's free and open source I would essentially receive no ROI (Return On My Investment) other than those ever so rare donations that come in once every 1 or two years. All the free and open source apps I've made I've done so not for the sake of money but to help evolve technology, educate others and simply to help make the world a better place. It's obviously not required but if I do get a donation I'm very thankful and grateful that my app helped you enough to give back and help me.

Earn Cash By Doing What You Already Do

here's tons of search engines out there but Swagbucks is different from the others because when you search with Swagbucks you can earn points (aka Swagbucks) and redeem those points for gift cards like a PayPal or Amazon gift card. Swagbucks also allows you to earn Swagbucks by answering daily polls, surveys and shopping. You can watch my old YouTube video on it from my old channel that was uploaded March 8th, 2012. Did I mention Swagbucks has been around since Feburary 2008?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiIbeqlKoMU
https://www.swagbucks.com/refer/justicerises

Another service you maybe interested in is ReceiptHog. Which is a fun and easy way to turn your everyday receipts into real cash and rewards!

HOW IT WORKS:
1) Take pictures of your receipts from any store, restaurant or cafe...
2) Earn Receipt Hog rewards like coins, spins at the virtual slot machine, and sweepstakes prizes...
3) Cash out with PayPal or Amazon gift cards. Cha-ching!

https://www.receipthog.com/

Sweatcoin is a new breed of step counter and activity tracker app that pays you digital currency - sweat coin. Thus in a nutshell you can make money by walking or running and cash in your sweatcoins for cash or gear!

https://sweatco.in/t/michaelsboost

Lastly there's tons of services out there where you can cash in on old CD's, electronics, books, recycling metal, plastic, cardboard, etc:

https://wahadventures.com/cash-recycling-cardboard-boxes/
https://www.boxcycle.com/sell_used_boxes
https://search.earth911.com/
https://www.decluttr.com/
https://iscrapapp.com/
https://www.eco-cell.com/
https://www.junkcarmedics.com/
https://craigslist.org/
https://www.letgo.com/
https://offerup.com/
https://www.recyclebank.com/
https://millennialmoney.com/make-money-recycling/
https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/make-money/quick-money/everyday-items-you-can-recycle-for-money/
https://wallethacks.com/make-money-recycling/

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