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- Convert prices into hours of your life, not euros.
This mental tool comes from the bestseller 'Your Money or Your Life': divide your net income by all the hours your job …
- How to find your forgotten subscriptions in 20 minutes.
Download your last three months of account transactions and filter for recurring amounts to the same payee. Write down …
- Pay later is a loan, even if it isn't called one.
Buy now, pay later splits a purchase into small instalments and looks like a payment method, not a loan. That's …
- Some things sell better once they get more expensive.
For Veblen goods, demand rises with price because the price is the product: it signals status. Thorstein Veblen …
- Why a pay rise often doesn't make you richer.
Lifestyle creep is the effect of spending growing along with income: bigger flat, better car, pricier restaurants. What …
- Why a tax refund feels different from salary.
Mental accounting means you sort money into mental buckets even though every euro is worth the same. A €500 refund gets …
- Why the third slice of pizza is worth less than the first.
Marginal utility is the extra benefit from the next unit of a good, and it almost always falls. The first glass of …
- You pay more by card. For the very same thing.
In an experiment by economists Prelec and Simester, participants bid up to twice as much for sought-after sports …
- Your new fridge got worse overnight – on paper.
On 1 March 2021 the EU replaced the frayed A+++ scale with a clean A to G range, starting with fridges, washing …