Why You Need a Personal Budget
If you think you know where all your money goes and that you do not need it all written down to keep up with it, I challenge you.
Try to keep track of every penny you spend for one whole month.
You will quickly see the need for a personal budget, as you notice all the streams of money leaving your pockets.
You may be shocked at what all the tiny expenses add up to, even in just your personal budget.
Take the total you spent on just one unnecessary item for the month, multiply it by 12 for the months in a year, and then the result by 5 to represent 5 years.
That is how much you could have saved and drawn interest on in just five years.
That is the very reason all of us need to have a personal budget.
If we can get control of the small expenses that are really not important for the quality of our lives, we can enjoy better financial security and stability.
In personal finance and budgeting the little things are very important.
Cutting down what you spend on lunch by a few dollars a day might save you $15 a week.
That makes for $60 a month, and eventually over $3500 in five years.
That money could have been on your savings account earning a healthy interest for the whole time.
That was only one place to save money in your daily living, and you were not forced to part from anything important.
There are a lot of similar places to cut expenses, if you only spend some time to look for them when developing a personal budget plan.
You can save on even the most necessary items by looking at the price and not only the quality.
Begin to develop a personal budget by setting some specific long and short term goals for yourself.
Search for something that is important to you, and needs financing.
Set both sort and long term goals, so there is always something to remember and keep your budget on mind.
If you want to be able to make a down payment on the house, or start a college fund for your kids; buy a sports car, or take a vacation to the Caribbean - anything really - then that can be your goal.
That goal can be your objective and the reason you need to develop a personal budget plan.
Try to keep track of every penny you spend for one whole month.
You will quickly see the need for a personal budget, as you notice all the streams of money leaving your pockets.
You may be shocked at what all the tiny expenses add up to, even in just your personal budget.
Take the total you spent on just one unnecessary item for the month, multiply it by 12 for the months in a year, and then the result by 5 to represent 5 years.
That is how much you could have saved and drawn interest on in just five years.
That is the very reason all of us need to have a personal budget.
If we can get control of the small expenses that are really not important for the quality of our lives, we can enjoy better financial security and stability.
In personal finance and budgeting the little things are very important.
Cutting down what you spend on lunch by a few dollars a day might save you $15 a week.
That makes for $60 a month, and eventually over $3500 in five years.
That money could have been on your savings account earning a healthy interest for the whole time.
That was only one place to save money in your daily living, and you were not forced to part from anything important.
There are a lot of similar places to cut expenses, if you only spend some time to look for them when developing a personal budget plan.
You can save on even the most necessary items by looking at the price and not only the quality.
Begin to develop a personal budget by setting some specific long and short term goals for yourself.
Search for something that is important to you, and needs financing.
Set both sort and long term goals, so there is always something to remember and keep your budget on mind.
If you want to be able to make a down payment on the house, or start a college fund for your kids; buy a sports car, or take a vacation to the Caribbean - anything really - then that can be your goal.
That goal can be your objective and the reason you need to develop a personal budget plan.
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