How to Succeed at the ‘No-Spend’ Challenge - Fintuity (2024)

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Plan ahead

If your rules are that you cannot spend at all you need to make sure you have your essential needs covered before you start your no-spend challenge. This includes making sure you're stocked up with toiletries you use every day and the food you need for your no-spend period.

Plan ahead

If your rules are that you cannot spend at all you need to make sure you have your essential needs covered before you start your no-spend challenge. This includes making sure you're stocked up with toiletries you use every day and the food you need for your no-spend period.

The rules of a no-buy challenge are self-imposed and simple: Make a list of the nonessential items you won't spend money on for a set period of time and stick to it. Easier said than done. Many people start such challenges at the beginning of the year and commit to keep going until the end of it.

What is the no-spend challenge? This viral trend involves going as long as possible without spending money on non-essential. (Rent, groceries and other necessities are okay.) Participants track their progress on a calendar, trying to rack up as many consecutive no-spend days as possible.

The 50-30-20 budget rule states that you should spend up to 50% of your after-tax income on needs and obligations that you must have or must do. The remaining half should dedicate 20% to savings, leaving 30% to be spent on things you want but don't necessarily need.

The two things that money cannot buy are time and peace.

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Buy nothing new.

If we find there is something we do truly need, every effort will be made to find that item secondhand — or attempt to repair what we already have. The only exception here is consumables, but that also comes with a caveat… “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without!”

The idea is simple. Instead of letting yourself buy whatever you want the moment you see it, force yourself to wait at least 48 hours before you make the purchase. Even better – make it three days, or even a week. By pausing and forcing yourself to exercise a little self-restraint, you give yourself time to think.

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If you spend money on something and we're talking about a non-necessity something that you don't have to buy, you just want to buy and the cost of that item is more than one percent of your annual income before taxes you have to wait at least 24 hours before buying it and so what this means is if you make forty ...

5-Hour Rule: If you're not spending 5 hours per week learning, you're being irresponsible. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time — none.

There are no set rules to a no-buy month. It can be as strict or as lenient as the challenger feels comfortable with. The point isn't to deprive ourselves of necessities, but rather to experience how easy it can be to use fewer resources, create less waste, and save some cash in the process.