Listen Money Matters - Free Your Inner Financial Badass. All The Stuff You Should Know About Personal Finance.

How do you stop yourself from burning through all your hard earned money like a drunken sailor on shore leave?  Today we discuss a few mind hacks that can help curb your baser monetary urges. The easiest way to not spend money is to stay home.  No siren song of the bar, no annoying co-workers forcing Girl Scout cookies on you against your will or asking you to sponsor their self-congratulatory charity walk.  Staying inside like Howard Hughes is not really an option for most of us but you probably encounter at least one invitation a week you could say no to. You spend forty hours a week or more with co-workers.  Do you really want to spend more time and your money with them at happy hour?  Turn down those invites that you really aren’t that interested in. It’s hard to say no to spending money unless you have a reason.  Maybe it’s “eff you”  money.  The money that allows you to tell your idiot boss to go to hell when he or she asks you to work the weekend one too many times. Maybe it’s a vacation or the abil