How I Can Control Small Expenses

Lesson 5

Hey there!
To start off, I don’t really tend to have financial problems. I have a good paying job and don’t spend a lot of money (unless it is for an investment). However, I can share what I am doing and a few things I can do better to control small expenses.

So, one of the things I do to control money is to track where it is going. So, when I spend something, I write down on a piece of paper that I spent ‘blank’ amount of money on ‘such-and-such.’ Also, when I get paid, I write down how much I got paid. Another thing I could do, though it may not really mater, is to write down the date that I spent or earned a certain amount of money.

Another thing I could do, is to make a list of all the things I need before I go to the store, look up how much they are going to cost me, and then bring only that amount of money (maybe a little more in case of emergency).

Also, when I do buy something it might be bought at a place where things are pretty cheap, like Dollarama, the Dollar Store, a thrift store (such as the Salvation Army), or Kijiji. Especially with places like Kijiji, remember to have patience. You can save a lot of money waiting for the right ad.

Thanks for reading!

~SonofYHWH

Photo Credits:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ofx/2018/09/12/the-past-present-and-future-of-global-money-transfer/#6ee8d90c31c9

36 thoughts on “How I Can Control Small Expenses”

    1. Thanks! And…YEAH I KNOW!!! I CAN’T FIGURE IT OUT! It won’t post under the Personal Finance category.
      Any ideas to why that is? I selected it when writing it. Again…help?
      ~SonofYHWH

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      1. Well…it looks normal, I click the Personal Finance category, and when I click “view post” I scroll down and it has a file and says Personal Finance, but when I go into the Personal Finance section…it has nothing!
        P.S.
        Thanks for responding!

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      2. Thank-you for the advice! But I do not know where I should put the link, can you tell me where to put it?
        ~SonofYHWH

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      3. Go into Customizer. Go into Menus. Go into Primary Menu (i dont know what it would be called on yours, but there should only be one menu.) Go into the Personal Finance Tab and change the link out with the one I gave you. Then Publish.

        ~Colton

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      4. Yeah, I just don’t know where I should put the new link or where the old one is. Is there a label above where I should insert the new link?
        ~SonofYHWH

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      5. Sorry, no it is not. It is a category. I don’t know where I am going to see a custom link.
        ~SonofYHWH

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      6. Ok. In that case, you must have selected the History page and then changed the “Navigation Label” to Personal Finance. If that is indeed what you did, what you need to do is remove that page from the menu and add the Personal Finance Category.

        ~Colton

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      7. Okay. Thanks!
        I am curious Colton, how you came to the understanding that Christmas is pagan.
        ~SonofYHWH

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      8. Hi Colton!
        I checked out your posts. Good for you for standing up for what you believe! I am assuming you don’t celebrate Christmas (correct me if I am wrong). My family and I do not celebrate Christmas either. Not Halloween, nor Valentines Day. I am curious, do you celebrate the feasts like Moses, the apostles, and Jesus?
        Here is a link that I thought was fitting for the subject:

        ~SonofYHWH
        BTW:
        The video was released this December 2019

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      9. Yeah I do!
        Not only are they fun, we are commanded to keep them on earth. Eventually, in the Kingdom (which some call Heaven), we will again be celebrating them. Would you like some verses?
        ~SonofYHWH

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      10. Hey there Colton!
        Yes! Sorry for the delay!
        Here are some verses about why we should keep the feasts:
        The feasts are specified for us to keep in Leviticus 23:
        Leviticus 23 New International Version (NIV)
        The Appointed Festivals
        23 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
        The Sabbath
        3 “‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the LORD.
        The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
        4 “‘These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: 5 The LORD’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6 On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 8 For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’”
        Offering the First fruits
        9 The LORD said to Moses, 10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. 11 He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect, 13 together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah[a] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin[b] of wine. 14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
        The Festival of Weeks
        15 “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. 17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD. 18 Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. 19 Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering[c] and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. 20 The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest. 21 On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
        22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.’”
        The Festival of Trumpets
        23 The LORD said to Moses, 24 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. 25 Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the LORD.’”
        The Day of Atonement
        26 The LORD said to Moses, 27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves,[d] and present a food offering to the LORD. 28 Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God. 29 Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people. 30 I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day. 31 You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. 32 It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”
        The Festival of Tabernacles
        33 The LORD said to Moses, 34 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. 35 The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. 36 For seven days present food offerings to the LORD, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.
        37 (“‘These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the LORD—the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day. 38 These offerings are in addition to those for the LORD’s Sabbaths and[e] in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.)
        39 “‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. 40 On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees—and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. 41 Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters 43 so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”
        44 So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the LORD.
        In case you missed it, the sabbath is also a feast.
        Some say that since Jesus, the Laws in the Old Testament do not need to be kept (even though they are forever). However, there are several instances in the New Testament in which people kept the feasts (and other Laws, but since we are talking about the feasts, I will supply related verses). Here are some verses:
        Acts 20:6
        “And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.”

        1 Corinthians 5:8
        Therefore, let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
        Mathew 19:7
        And he said unto him, why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
        There are more examples of keeping the feasts in the NT:
        Luke 2:42; John 5:1; 7:2, 10, 14; 12:20; Matthew 26:2, 17, 29; and Acts 18:21.
        Here is a related video (he says in the video: “Yeshua” which is “Jesus” in Aramaic, as well as YHWH (which is pronounced “Yahweh”) which is written as “LORD” in the English Bible):

        There is more information that I can send to you. Would you like me to do so or would you like to research it yourself?
        ~SonofYHWH

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      11. Yes you can send more info. I must read through all of this though. A lot of info you’ve got there. Not sure I agree though. I’ll have more on this later on. Right now I can’t look into this, too busy. Thank you for the info.

        ~Colton

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      12. Your welcome.
        What don’t you agree with considering that which you have read? Most of what I had posted there was Bible verses (not including the video).
        ~SonofYHWH

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      13. I know. I just believe that the old testament laws like that were voided after Jesus, like you mentioned. I don’t see those verses as proof otherwise. As I said, I’ll get back to you at another time with a better explanation.

        ~Colton

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      14. Yeah, sure Colton. A lot of people are under that impression. I will wait for your explanation, however, to provide you with additional information, I need you to tell me what type of additional information you need or would like to know. I don’t have a problem with providing it, I just needed to know where to zone in on as far as info is concerned.
        ~SonofYHWH

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      15. Okay, so I have a few clarifying questions to ask you:
        1. What translation would you like me to use instead (I prefer the ISR (Institute for Scriptures Research)).
        2. Why don’t you like the NIV?
        3. When you say that you would like more verses, are you asking for verses proving that Jesus didn’t change the Law of God?
        ~SonofYHWH

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