re: How do you save your money?

I see out Folgers cans at yard sales, and bury them in my neighbor's back yard with cash at night.

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get the largest amount of taxes taken out of my check each week

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Interest free loan to the Govt. Nice.

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How do you save your money?

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Auto withdraw all my bills, set the checking at 1200 after each pay check ( bi monthly) because i know i wont spend more than 1/4 of that on gas/food/random shite. Move everything else to savings. Watch it grow monthly. Try not to blow thousands at a time whenever I break a bench mark.

i remember when $20 was a big deal to me. after a few years of being financially responsible its a dif world. I feel broke when my checking drops under 500, even if i know i have 10K in savings. i fricking HATE moving money from savings to checking.


ETA:: i have 10% of everything automatically put into retirement fund, I never look at how much it is each month so i never miss it, it's like i dont even make that much. Then at the end of the year i get a new statement of how much is in that account, give a little jack knife " yes" motion with my elbow, and continue on about my binness

Use Mint to budget for everything we owe each month, ranging from as small as Netflix to the mortgage. Some of the designated budgets are towards saving for things (we have a car fund, travel fund, IRAs, etc. that get money every month as if they were a bill) Whatever money is left at the end of the month goes into straight savings, we don't roll it over to the next month for extra spending money.

Savings then 401K.

Auto draft from checking to investment accounts.monthly.

Anyone try the Acorns app? How is it?

Listen to Dave

I like and hate mint... sometimes they just don't get things accurate