Smart Thinking On Investing – January 27
Smart Thinking On Investing – January 27
J. Money from Budgets Are Sexy tells us point blank, “If you can afford to spend it, you can afford to save it.” And Dear Debt’s Melanie Lockert uncovers how numbers don’t necessarily tell the whole story…
With Determination, Anything Is Possible
- Tired of waiting every month for your wages to be paid in? Are your bills tied to leave your account only when your salary lands?
- Figure out a strategy that will help you to stop living paycheck-to-paycheck, being a month ahead will help cushion your finances should anything unexpected happen
- Be creative in your ways to save money, whether it’s being stricter on your budget, creating a new income stream for yourself, or a new focus on lowering your utilities—think outside the box
Get into a New Financial Habit
- Spend ten minutes a day reviewing your finances, by being more immersed in your day-to-day spending and budgeting you’ll create a better financial situation for yourself
- Use an online program or set up a simple spreadsheet—whatever works for you individually, and use it to track everything; from your income to your expenditures
- Set aside a portion of that time to keep an eye on any insurance policies and retirement accounts too to stay completely up-to-date should anything happen
Prepare Your Children with a Real Financial Education
- Involve them as much as possible in your financial discussions to give them a grounding in handling money, from your debts to your spending habits
- By teaching them about your household situation, they’ll have a better idea of why you say no sometimes, and you’ll start to set them up for their own future finance skills
- As well as teaching them about budgets, hopefully it will also help them realize how fortunate they are to have money and they’ll learn to treat it with respect
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Make Your Savings More Tangible
- People often struggle with the concept of saving; they can’t see any room in their budget to carve out a portion for their savings
- But next time you go to hit “Buy” at the online checkout, step back, and automatically move the money you were going to spend straight into your savings account
- You’ll start to see a steady and credible hike in your savings if you consider every purchase you make in this fashion—don’t spend, save instead!
The Figures Don’t Tell You Everything
- Watching our finances can either get us excited or depress us, but it’s important to remember that they fail to share the whole story
- Bear in mind your circumstances as you watch your economic situation; don’t forget that your location, relationship and family status, health, and tax bracket, etc., can all have an effect
- And that’s just the start of it, when you begin to fixate on your numbers in comparison to other people’s, remember that your story is different, and so are your finances
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