With the rocketing of the cost of living, every one of us find it very difficult to save a fixed amount of our monthly income in spite of the fact that it is the crucial aspect of our financial planning. You are confronted with some sort of unexpected expenditure almost every month emaciating the time and efforts that you allocate for financial planning. Amidst such unforeseen situations, saving a part of the income becomes almost impossible.
This article provides you the best tips to start saving a fixed part of your monthly income come what may!Try implementing each of the tip practically and you would be surprised to see that your savings starts creeping up steadily within 6 months to one year.
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Become a debtor to yourself
As soon as you get your monthly income, make it a habit to pay to yourself first. Let the expenditure, budget and other debts for that month come next. You would find it tough to implement this ideology for the first few months. But once you are habituated to paying yourself first every month, then you would be dumbstruck to see your savings amount steadily creeping to an all time high. This is a remarkable tactic for saving, the mandatory aspect of financial planning at home.
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Pay Yourself via Electronic Clearance
You may find this financial planning tactic of paying yourself very difficult since you are not accustomed to it. The best way to get habituated to pay yourself is to have a savings account in a bank, provide standing instructions to the bank such that a fixed amount gets transferred from your salary account to your savings account automatically as you as you receive the salary every month.
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Allocate 10% of your income for savings
While you are doing your financial planning, allocate 10% of your earnings for your monthly savings. If you find it pressurizing, start with 5% and try elevating the percentage of your saving slowly till you attain the 10%. This tactic of financial planning would indeed be of great assistance to you while you start enjoying your retired life.
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The mightiness of cumulative/compound interest is astonishing
As a part of your financial planning, have fixed deposits with cumulative interest. The idea behind such a precious tactic of financial planning is that the successive interest is calculated with the augmented value of the principal and the interest earned during the elapsed period.
Let us say you save 10$ during your first month and get an annual interest of 5%. At the end of the first year, the amount saved will be $10.5. At the end of the second year, the total amount saved would have reached $11.025. Thats the miracle of compounding.
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Use the interesting rule of 72 to replicate your money
To know the tenure in which your money would replicate itself, divide 72 by the percentage of interest that you expect to get for the amount you save. Lets say you save $100 at 6% annual interest. Then your saving amount would reach $200 at the end of 12 years.
Interesting, but quite true. Use this tactic while doing your financial planning to understand the saving that you would have after 20 years from now.
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hi friends,
Whenever you get tour monthly salary, make it a habit to pay to yourself first. The best way to get habituated to pay yourself is to have a savings account in a bank or buy mutual funds etc..
savings account in a bank is really a good option. Buying mutual funds is quite ok but its returns are totally dependent on the highly volatile market.
So start with a savings bank account if you are middle aged. If you are young, take risk and start investing in mfs