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The litmus test for economic<br />

expenditure is as follows;<br />

• If you have not yet built your own house<br />

then you should not drive a car worth more<br />

than N2 Million Naira<br />

• Before you spend N10 Million Naira on a<br />

car, you should make sure that you have at<br />

least N100 Million Naira in the bank. Cars<br />

are not investments but liabilities and they<br />

lose value quickly. If you buy a brand new<br />

car for N20 Million Naira today you can rest<br />

assured that within 1 year that car would<br />

have lost almost 40% of its value. That<br />

means that you would have lost close to N8<br />

Million Naira in just 1 year<br />

• Live below your means and stop following<br />

the Jones’s. You don’t always have to buy<br />

the latest phone in the market and besides,<br />

new phones come out every month so you<br />

can never win that race no matter how hard<br />

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