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Where to Stash Your Emergency Fund
Having a rainy day fund is such an important aspect of feeling financially secure. Even if you have mountains of debt, having just the smallest nest egg squirreled away can make a huge difference to your bottom line and your sanity. But where should you keep that safety net? Should you just let it sit in your checking account untouched?
How My Father's Death Changed My Views on Finance
There’s no arguing that money can be an extremely emotional topic, but factor in a sickness or family death and those effects can be multiplied exponentially. I was 17 when my father passed away. Here are some of the ways his death helped shape my financial views along the way.
How to Recession-Proof Your Assets
So far this year, we’ve seen the stock market put up record breaking numbers, but several analysts have come out to claim that a market “correction” may happen within the next 18 months. It’s certainly enough to make you take another look at your finances and consider where you have exposure and what can you do to hedge against the next recession.
How to Pay Yourself First Without Going Broke
At this point in your financial life, you may have heard the advice to “pay yourself first”. As much as this is good advice to give, very few people actually follow it, and there are two big reasons why. Here we address steps you can take to pay yourself first without going broke.
Establishing a Small Emergency Fund: How to Save $1,000 Quickly
One of the best things you can do for your finances and for your sanity, is to establish an emergency fund. This is an amount of money set aside somewhere safe from you and the ups and downs of risky investments. So how can you start saving today?