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I've spoken to individuals who like to ask me what good quality quick tips are for managing your money for starters. First of all there are no 'quick' ideas to finance, financial management is a serious business that is a 'lifestyle' change that should become a habit that positively affects every aspect of your lifetime. There are certain steps that you can take now to start a lifelong path of financial harmony in your lifetime for many years.


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Very first thing to begin doing is stop using credit cards. I understand this sounds easy and a no brainier but how many times have we been out and saw something we wanted to purchase but did not have the cash upon us or even the money in the financial institution in those days but we tell ourselves it is OK to put this on my credit card since i will just pay it off when I get my next paycheck. I recommend this theory is just effective 1% of times. This practice is harmful to your finances because consider what scenarios could arise between your times you charge this item to credit and actually receive your paycheck. You could have random automobile troubles that require immediate attention and I assure you the mechanics will require payment for his or her services at that time they are rendered. Let's say you become ill and need to charge certain medical items and prescriptions or visits to the doctor to your charge card, and of course probably the most dreaded thing can happen by using your charge cards until you receive money.... you develop a habit of this and continually charge items to your card and before very long one item becomes six or ten when you get paid, this possibly consumes your entire paycheck by this time. Now how are you going to pay the car note and utility bills and rent or mortgage? This primary part of unsecured debt elimination for your personal finances is to stop making use of your charge cards, however this is much more compared to bodily act of refraining from charging items to credit, I'm also referring to this step as a mental change. You need to first develop a mental attitude that credit is a kind of evil, as far as every single day expenses are concerned, and mentally create a change to desire a credit debt free lifestyle. Also understand that even though you purchase just one $5.00 item before your next paycheck, you are still considered $5.00 more indebted. When you come to actually know this concept you'll be able to get ready to avoid the temptations of charging simple daily items to charge cards.

The second tip for private financial management is once you have developed no credit card attitude and started to really stop using charge cards for random nonsense expenses, nonsense here meaning not a necessity, develop a intend to start a separate savings account with a starting goal of $1,000 in it. This tip does not necessarily mean to disregard other outlays and put the savings first, of course you have to pay your expenses first of all. But with expenses be sure you are only paying for as numerous necessary items as humanly possible such as utility bills, and loan payments. Critique your expenses monthly and make sure you aren't wasting cash on useless magazine subscriptions, eating at restaurants excessively (yes McDonald's does count here...buy groceries people), and buying random items which catch your eye at the checkout line. Once your expenses are taken care of try taking some money that you would otherwise waste on other purchases and begin putting it into a separate savings account at a bank which you decide on (do not worry about finding an interest yielding savings account at this time). The important thing here is separate account. Don't mix your regular checking or other savings accounts you might have with this particular one (you will see why in articles in the future later). Create a realistic intend to start saving for $1,000, whether it is putting aside $50 per month or $250 a month and so forth. Saving for $1,000 has few purposes: first it develops a very important mental attitude within you by permitting you to definitely develop a practice of saving money on a regular basis; secondly this $1,000 is going to be a starting point to have an emergency fund which we'll discuss later.

Begin with both of these steps through getting the mindset that charge card charging is no good to your credit debt elimination purposes and obtain into the practice of not using your charge card to charge anything if at all possible. Secondly make a strategy for setting up a separate savings account and develop a realistic plan to conserve to $1,000 inside a reasonable amount of time.