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Budgeting is not an exercise in manipulating things but budgeting is an exercise in managing things, especially your finances. You may feel that you are in a very comfortable situation financially and hence you need not do budgeting. But even in such a situation, budgeting will help you in finding out how your money is spent. There is no doubt that you can pay your bills without doing this exercise but if you do it and have a limit for every expense, you can definitely save quite an amount at the end of the month. This amount will be useful for planning your holidays, or for your retirement or for the education of your children.

Your priorities should be the backbone of your budgeting exercise. Every person has their own priorities and you should get into the fundamentals of your priorities.

If, for example, your priority is to get a car for yourself, you have options to buy a luxury car as well as a comfortable and less expensive one. Your necessity, and not extravagance, must be the dominating factor in deciding your priority. You should apply the same formula for all your other priorities.

While doing this exercise, you may be making a study of how you spend your money. This step may induce you to opt for a monthly expense or a saving. You may also opt to make it a priority.

But making it a priority needs a few adjustments in your habits. The best way to make it in the list of priority is to make the expense or saving automatic. If you cannot do this, you should devise ways to make the payment regularly and making the effort to remember to do it. You can include it in the list of your regular monthly bills. If this is done for a few months, this will become a strong habit.

Priorities change due to situations. Hence you must review your budget periodically. Even small adjustments will have an impact on your financial priorities.

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