Penny Pinchin' Mom

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

How much of your salary should you save? Should you just pretend that you don’t have savings and increase your debt ? What you can do is control how much of your money you spend on bills in any given month and how much of it you save for your long-term financial planning and security. So, what do you do?

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 3, 2012

Increase our Monthly Debt Payment. We have set a goal date of July 2015 to pay off all of our debt. Start a Car Replacement Savings Account. Start College Savings Accounts for our Girls. Our oldest daughter is in Kindergarten and we have not started to save for her higher education. Finish Will.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Lots of little changes can add up to big results, like a fatter savings account, more contributions to retirement funds , the means to do really cool stuff and just greater peace of mind. Do you pick away at your savings for things you really don’t need? See a Budget as an Ally. But, budgets are not the enemy.

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Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 11, 2016

.” Recently Go Banking Rates conducted two studies on savings rates with startling results. Almost 70% of Generation X have less than $1000 in personal savings account. *. of Generation X report a retirement savings account balance of $0.**. of Gen X report they have saves less than $10,000 for retirement.**.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2021

He then advises paying off your non-mortgage debt before fully funding an emergency fund with 3 – 6 months worth of expenses. Now that we’ve paid off six figures of non-mortgage debt , we are working on saving 6 months’ expenses and maybe even more. Groceries is the easiest budget category to overspend.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 13, 2014

We’ll talk about cash flow, budgets, debts, and all of the nitty gritty of our finances that might not be fun to talk about, but are so important to discuss. For more on that, read Our Debt Freedom Plan. Later in his plan, he recommends people save 3-6 months salary, but only after they’ve paid off their non-mortgage debt.

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For the Mommas

JANUARY 11, 2011

and putting $30 in the bank may be impossible for you, but here are some steps to start “Saving Your Savings”. Set up a budget. This is always the first step to building savings. If you don’t know how much you make and spend, it is very hard to save anything. Stick to your budget, and try to spend even less.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

An emergency fund is NOT a spending account. Please don’t confuse this money with vacation money or new furniture money. Your wants and dreams are secondary and should be saved for separately. Create a separate savings account and call it your Emergency Fund. Be diligent about how you use this account.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

He then advises paying off your non-mortgage debt before fully funding an emergency fund with 3 – 6 months worth of expenses. Being self-employed, we have a higher starter fund on hand and when we pay off our non-mortgage debt, we will save to at least 6 months expenses and maybe even more. You will be so thankful later.

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Finally Frugal

JANUARY 8, 2011

Basically, the idea is to avoid a post-Christmas financial hangover by putting those extra dollars away in a special holiday savings account, thereby gaining a nice cushion when the gift buying season raises its expensive head once again; Second, how about starting a fund just for the car maintenance costs?

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The Frugal Girl

MARCH 4, 2024

Now I wish those dollars had gone into our savings accounts. manicures pedicures expensive or trendy clothes and shoes brand-name foods gym memberships a large-screen TV, streaming services, movies the latest phones and tech gadgets fine wines alcohol cigarettes credit card debt The list goes on. Alan doesn’t share that regret.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the video below, learn more about how investing harnesses the power of compound interest, and differs from saving. High-yield savings accounts Online savings accounts and cash management accounts provide higher rates of return than you’ll get in a traditional bank savings or checking account.

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