
Manage Impulse Food Buying & Financial Habits
Discover the impact of emotional spending and impulse food buying through mobile applications on your financial habits. Learn effective strategies to manage your emotions and make better financial decisions for a healthier budget.
SPENDING HABITS
Whats actually shaping spending habits. Emotion or Logic ?

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Hypothetical Situation
When we are happy, we buy when we are sad then also, we buy. So, what’s exactly shaping our spending habits? Emotions or Logic? Let’s explore this trending topic. In today’s world people are mad about Ordering food online. So, are these food apps worth the investment? What’s the return value?
Suppose you had a bad day and things didn’t turn out accordingly, then you got an urge to eat food from outside to make yourself happy. Now suppose the alternative situation, you are really happy and all things turned out exactly the way you planned and you want to celebrate it and got an urge to eat food from outside.
So, in either of the situations you are spending a hefty amount on outside food. So definitely it’s the emotion that acting you to scroll your phone and order food from online apps like Swiggy, Zomato, Uber Eats.


Suggestions
1. Homemade foods are also available at online platforms. Try to look out for such options.
2. Try to give cooking instructions in the app like less oily, less spicy food and to maintain hygiene.
3. Try to order from reputed restaurants.
4. And last if you want to have some not so healthy foods then have that as much as possible in feasible amount but then try to avoid that for the next two weeks at least.
So, money invested in food that brings you happiness is never wasted. It’s just you have to use your logic and emotions together