I’d like to share to you the best tips about “how to manage your money better!

1. Learn to cook, and eat at home.

Eating homemade foods is usually much cheaper than eating at a restaurant or buying
processed foods from the market especially for one who live in boarding house. Why? Let’s
imagine you must spend about 30.000 rupiah per day to buy food and can you imagine how much
money do you spend for 30 days? Yes..900.000 rupiah a month. How about in a year? You can
calculate it by yourself.
In the beginning, learn to cook maybe not easy for some people, but believe me. We live
in modern era; technology help us so much. I not really good at cooking, I have a rice cooker, a
water heater, and an electric stove in my boarding house. All of them really helpful. In the internet
and YouTube, you can find a lot of recipes, how to cook simple dish, I recommend you to search
and find recipes at NCC (natural cooking club) Indonesia.
And the last is when we prepare our own food, we know exactly which ingredients and
how much of each are going into our food. And also we can control the portion of the food.

2. Don’t go to the cinema; watch DVD’s at home.

The first, in my hometown and also in Singaraja we don’t have a cinema. When we decide
to go to cinema it means that we decide to spend more money for the transportation, to buy
ticket and also to buy popcorn maybe.

Actually, I don’t really like to buy DVD. I prefer to download or sometimes my friend
downloaded it for me, the movie or drama that I like. So, I don’t need to spend my money only to
watch a movie. Maybe, it is not really good for you who like the atmosphere of the cinema and
the up to date person, but this tips really helpful for one who have minimum budget.

3. Calculate your income and outcome every day.

For me this tips are really helpful. Why? Because I can know how much my income and
my outcome. I recommend you to download an application namely Catatan Keuangan.
This application is one of the best application ever that helps to manage my money in a
better way. This application is easy to use, through this application, you can see how
much your outcome/income in a day. But every day you must input what thing that is
you bought and how much money did you spend. So, you can control yourself to buy
something.