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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

After ditching UPI for over two months, this Delhi woman reveals the money habits she never noticed before

Could giving up UPI make you spend less? A content creator from Delhi believes it can. After switching from digital payments to cash for most of her daily expenses for more than two months, she says the simple experiment completely changed the way she thinks about money.

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Sharing her experience on Instagram, Sadaf explained how relying on cash made her more mindful of every purchase and helped curb impulse spending.

Why she ditched UPI for cash

In the video, Sadaf said she was in the third month of using cash instead of UPI for most of her everyday expenses.

According to her, digital payments made it easy to overlook how much she was actually spending because transactions took only a few seconds.

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