Tricks for treats
As Halloween nears, you might consider exorcising your “financial demons,” says Erin Burt in Kiplinger.com. If you’re “haunted” by procrastination, make a firm goal—saving for retirement, paying off debt—“and make it publicly.” Also, don’t let “your sense-of-entitlement devil confuse your angelic rational self”—if you think you “need” something you might merely “want,” then “sleep on it.” If “you’re paralyzed by fear” when it comes to money management, “start small” and build skills and confidence. And beware the “specter” of coveting your neighbor’s apparent wealth. It won’t do you any good, and besides, “he could be in debt up to his ears.”
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