Poles thrifty or wasteful? See test results – Virtual Poland

More and more are looking online for information about finances and saving. We clearly see this in the results related to search our content. According to experts, more often we reflect on methods for energy efficiency. Interestingly often they think about, but young Poles. For older larger meaning is in turn the question of how the money saved smartly go crazy.

Such conclusions can be reached after analyzing the results of the second edition of the social barometer “Hedonists and thrifty”, commissioned by Life Insurance Company Europe conducted IRCenter. How do you know that Poles are increasingly interested in finances. It turns out that compared to last year, in 2016. Social media appeared much as 8 percent more publications on saving. When it comes to the issuance of this here is even better because, as much as 9 percent. More Posts relates to methods for depletion and wealth.

However, not only on Facebook often share with others their thoughts about money, it turns out that it is also much more than a year ago in the Google box, type questions related to saving and publishing. Comparing these statistics with those from the authors of the Barometer found that significantly strengthens the tendency to save money.

What’s even more interesting, in the “hedonists financial” increased participation of older Poles aged about 50 years . In the group of thrifty a lot more than before the year is young Poles to 44 years of age. – We are seeing an interesting trend. There is a widespread perception that young people live in the moment, they do not think about the future, and thus do not save, while the elders are savvy and calculate expenses. As you can see, the younger Poles, however, are becoming more aware of their finances. It enjoys, taking into account the importance in society is awareness of the need to accumulate funds for the future and protect the financial from a young age – says Marat Nevretdinov, vice president TUnŻ Europe.

What understandable in online discussions social networking sites and among the query results from Google in striking contrast to certain seasonality. Probably in connection with the provisions of the New Year content of saving they are very popular in January. In turn, the most effective ideas for spending money appears on the network when it starts to make you warm and plan vacations. A similar booster content related to the depletion account balance can be observed during the autumn sales.

The change in the overall trend can also be seen in the specific sums, which declare to spend, or save the survey participants. The latter this year set aside an average of 208 zł per month for situations of unfortunate accidents and 209 zł for retirement. Before the year was respectively 186 zł and 160 zł. Hedonists, in turn, reduced the sum spared. Prior declared accumulate an average of 67 zł precaution and 54 zł for retirement. Now, this was respectively 52 zł and 17 zł.