Budget Mondays

Monday – 6/9/2014

It’s Monday – a painful day for most people, yours truly included. Sometimes it is made even more painful as we remember just how much money we ended up spending over the weekend.

Budget

It’s one word that can make people cringe, angry and sad all at the same time, a rare occurrence indeed. There are plenty of reasons for this – people are told at work that their budgets are being cut, their ideas cannot be funded because they are not in the budget, and in our personal life, our budgets don’t usually quite match up to our desires.

Every week we discuss tips and strategies to make your budget stretch further, how to learn more about personal financial planning, and methods that you can use to make your own personal financial life better. What cannot be ignored, however, is that day-to-day life intervenes with the best-laid budgetary plans. Shopping trips, meals out with friends, movie outings, and impulse shopping sprees can all wreak havoc on your personal finances.

I have included the article below, but let’s take a look at some of the things that have some of the most outrageous markups out there:

1) Fast food French fries – up to a 3,900% markup
2) Brand name clothing – high-end retail can have a 750% markup
3) Coffee – almost a 400% markup

Check out these and more in the link below.

Happy Reading!

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/06/07/products-outrageous-markups/#!fullscreen&slide=2687572