Pick Me Up!

SPLURGE OR SAVE?

When looking for a new item to add to your home, whether that’s fresh food from the supermarket, or a pair of new trainers, do you pick up the first item that you see?

Or are you the type of person to scour the shelves or have hundreds of tabs open to find the best deal?

It’s no secret that there are various spending habits that many of us tend to use on the daily – in fact, there are four broad character traits that Professor Adrian Furnham at TopCashback has identified that many of us fall into when it comes to our finances.

These include – ‘Savvy Saver’, ‘Power Player’, ‘Hopeless Romantic’, and ‘Splash the Casher’.

And with one in four of us spending 25% of our monthly salary within three days of being paid, according to Payment

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