Best Ways to Save Money in India 2024

Every person manages his/her money irresponsibly in the initial days and leads to losing money. Credit cards and loans plays an important roles to spoil their financial habits. However, money can be saved with a little care and following simple money saving tips. Here in this guide, I’ve decided to share the few simplest ways to save money in India.

Why one should Save Money?

In this era where people’s responsibilities and needs are rising day by day, many have opted to go as far as investing their money in big companies so that they are able to cope with their daily needs. In India, the population is rapidly growing and the needs are increasing at a ridiculous rate hence the need to get ideas on how to save money and be a step ahead of all your responsibilities. I mean who wouldn’t want a stress-free lifestyle.

Further, for having a stress-free life, you need to have money. So, in simplest words, there are two ways to have it; one by Investing your money in some of the best investment options in India, and the second is saving on your expenses.

If you want to earn money in India by investing then you should read this guide on Vesting: Best investment options and must use the best stock market apps to achieve that.

Otherwise, keep reading this guide.

After research, I found out certain ways that can really come in handy while saving money on your daily expenses. Make spending habits in such a way that you don’t waste a single rupee of your hard-earned money. You can save even thousands of rupees per month if only you know how to reduce & manage expenses.

Best Ways to Save Money in India

Best money saving tips in India are:

1. Go Shopping with a List
2. Make a Monthly Budget
3. Avoid the Offer Deals
4. Switch to Prepaid Mobile Plans
5. Shopping Online
6. Make Online Booking for Travel, Hotels & Movies

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1. Go Shopping with a List

I know how hard it can be for us to resist buying that cute dress you see on your way while going out to the market to look for groceries. It even goes as far as withdrawing more money from the bank just to fulfill our desire. And slowly it becomes our habit, a bad habit. Don’t worry because you are not alone with this habit, a lot are suffering.

The simplest way to get rid of this bad habit is; plan your shopping and make a list of everything you want to purchase also strictly adhere to it while you’re out there. This will even save you time also because your mind will be focused only on the things you’ll need. This way you will be saving money that you would have rather spent on a very expensive watch/dress.

2. Make a Monthly Budget

I can attest that making a monthly budget is the best feeling ever. You can do this slightly at the beginning of the month probably in the first five days of the month.

I know it may get boring or you may be too lazy to do it but trust me it’s worth it. You will be smiling all through the month knowing in mind that you’ve got everything you’ll need for the month and more money left to keep watch at the bank. When your salary is finally here take only the amount you had scheduled for the budget and save the rest

3. Avoid the Offer Deals

Let’s say you are out in a boutique to buy that nice dress that you’ve been admiring for days and you see an offer on it [buy 2 get 1 free] what do you do. I’m sure most of you would jump at the offer but let me remind you that you’re going to spend more money on that dress than the amount you had scheduled for.

Take this example for better understanding, if the original dress costs 1000 rupees then you are buying 3 dresses at 2000 rupees that means 667 for each dress. Do you realize that that’s double amount what you’re supposed to spend before going to purchase?

4. Switch to Prepaid Mobile Plans

When I got my first phone I signed up for a postpaid plan. After some time I got to know that I was double paying to the company, what a waste. This is because in postpaid mobile plans it is very difficult to track the usage of the postpaid plans until you get the bill, sometimes you activate unwanted paid services and there’s no control over the upper limit. When you switch to prepaid mobile plans you’ll realize that you will be left with another chunk of money to save and take back to the savings. Isn’t that great?

5. Shopping Online

The main reason why I love shopping online is because of the handsome discounts and deals (avoid bundle deals as I mentioned earlier) that are available and don’t forget that you can also use your credit card. The tip is before you shop online to ensure that you check all the prices on all the top shopping sites in India.

You can comfortably use price comparison sites that automatically show the price of the same product on all the available websites at the same time. You’ll be amazed at how you will be able to save so many rupees.

6. Make Online Booking for Travel, Hotels & Movies

One thing I’m sure of is that Indians know various portals for booking your online travel and hotel but are not aware that you can combine credit cards, wallets, UPI apps, and discount codes to get double or triple the discount without even trying. This will save you so much money.

Conclusion – Save Money India

Starting with these small and simple saving tips will help you to gain more insight about investing as we all know a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. As you embark on this journey of saving, keep in mind that it requires willingness and determination and once you start there’s no turning back, it’s like a necessity and very worthwhile in the end. It will help you to avoid spending money unnecessarily and hence you will get rewarded with more and more money in the back.

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