In the last lesson we asked how good you really are with your money, and looked at the 5 components you need to understand to be good you’re your money. In this fifth lesson in the Smart Consumer Skills Guide for Brilliant Kids series we look at what you need to be doing to helping curb that impulse buying resulting from good and clever marketing.

Remember only you are responsible for making the decisions to buy or not. No-one else is responsible for this. So take this responsibility seriously and let’s have a little fun. Before you spend, you need to do some thinking and analysis, by asking a series of questions to help you take the emotion out of the decision and decide on a more objective basis.