It’s not always easy to control your budget when you see a balance. Here are 5 tips to buy better and without having any regrets! Read the guide!
Klama’s advice!
During the sales period, it is sometimes difficult to reason or to aim for the right budget. Klarna, the world leader in shopping and payment services, reveals its 5 best tips for consuming better while avoiding hurting your wallet too much. The Leenkus editorial staff makes the point.
1. Sales: make wishlists
Too much supply kills supply! Each year, the time of the sales can quickly turn into general panic. Indeed, this situation can easily be avoided by finding inspiration and selecting content just for yourself.
Moreover, at the time of the sales, all you have to do is order the items that you have put aside. This can effectively avoid some compulsive purchases!
2. Make reasoned purchases during the sales… but not only!
To do good business… The sales can now be interesting periods. However, it is possible to find exclusive offers and receive price drop notifications.
Also, items from his wishlist throughout the year such as, for example, at the time of private sales for example. “Stay on the lookout for good deals that can sometimes save several hundred euros! Says a tip from Klarna.
3. Balances: control your budget and control your expenses
In fact, French people who shop online have a better idea of what they want to buy and spend (61%-60%). Unlike people who buy in store and who then make more impulsive purchases (only 45% have a predefined budget).
So much the better, because there are now very simple and intuitive tools that help you keep control of your expenses even on sale. This by setting, for example, monthly budget limits. Or even fixed by showing a practical follow-up of his previous purchases.
Also, for slightly more expensive purchases… So it’s handy to have flexible payment options. For example, payment in 3 installments free of charge, which allows you to spread out your expenses and not have to pay too much money at once.
4. Thinking about the planet and buying responsibly
In recent years, the collective consciousness for our planet is growing. In fact, the proof is with second-hand purchases, in particular, which are beginning to take pride of place during the sales period.
For the French, shorter supply chains, reduced environmental impact. And the guarantee of compliance with social standards have now become essential criteria for purchasing. Several applications therefore offer consumers the possibility of calculating the carbon footprint of their purchases and even of reimbursing it.
5. Buy safely
Balance: it regularly happens, when you are looking for something very specific, that you get lost on the Internet… And here comes the eternal question of the security of the means of payment.
But that’s without knowing that there are also more secure and innovative ways to pay. Among which single-use virtual payment cards protecting your data. Or the purchase protection and return process policies bringing you convenience while shopping online. So you can go there with your eyes closed!
