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Saving made simple and easy...

July 2nd, 2009 at 06:26 am

Saving is a habit and not a hobby. Let me start with that note. You might hearing lot on "How to Savings?" lately over the Internet. They always suggest some hard to follow strategies that doesn't fit to all type of people. I am here to share my own simple, realistic, and ideal plan sure won't turn you down on your thoughts about savings. So go and read on...

Whether you are looking to save small for your IPOD or little bit more for a new car or bigger amount for your first home. Let me tell you first thing you should know.

Savings is hard and never comes off the cuff. Not many like to hear, sorry that's the truth. You should first and foremost realize that tough fact. I always like to expose the fact first instead of coating the sugary picture before diving deep in. When I was kid(6th grade), my mom showed the value of real money. She taught me, how to save every paise(Indian currency equivalent of penny). I started my first savings bank account when I was at my 7th grade and started putting every rupee(Indian currency equivalent to dollar) I earned. That's the foundation for my savings and spending habit. If you don't have that Saving habit built into you as a kid, its going to be hard to start with but it was never tough act. Anything is possible under Sun and above earth if you ask me. It's just needs determination and to make habitual by constant practice.

A quote by Frank Outlaw goes very well at this point.
"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

You need to first cultivate the thought about Savings. Then talk about it to your spouse or friends anytime you talk about money or expenses. Then act on it by following any or all of 3 methods.

Prerequisite: Open a savings account either with Internet banks or local banks with just minimum deposit of $1. Credit unions are best for small saving accounts.

1. Start putting your change(pennies or dimes) which you gather every day or week in a piggy bank or a simple container. Every month, take the change to near by bank and deposit it to your bank account.

2. On every ATM withdrawal, take $10 out of it and put it away in the secret compartment in your wallet. Don't ever touch it whatever comes. At the end of the month, take it all out and deposit in your savings account.

3. I call this one it Blind savings - Put away a small amount from your paycheck automatically as a Payroll deduction or auto deduction from your checking account to your CD or Savings account.

Once you start taking actions. Everything falls into picture automatically transforming yourself and the savings habit gets built slowly into you. Once you got the habit, it comes off the cuff without even thinking about like your second nature.

Don't think its not possible. You already took your first step thinking about it on the path towards making savings a habit.

So start working your next step by talking and taking action.

5 Responses to “Saving made simple and easy...”

  1. NJDebbie Says:

    I really enjoy reading this post! Great ideas!

  2. baselle Says:

    Not bad for beginning the habit and maintaining. Definitely try all three!

    Saving is a bit like exercising - once you get comfortable with the basics of saving, you need to also develop a plan for increasing your savings. For example - Your 1. Add a dollar bill or two along with your change. Your 2. When you get used to that 10$ in the secret compartment in your wallet, increase it to $20. Your 3. Make it a goal (if you can) to increase your auto-deduction by x$ every six months or so.

  3. whitestripe Says:

    the method that helped me save for my first car was the 'round-off' method, where every day i would round off the amount in my bank account to an even number, and deposit the left over into my savings account. eg $374.27 in my account, $4.27 would go into my savings. as well as depositing as much as i could each week into savings, using that little bit extra helped me save for a car in 6 months.

  4. tmvijai Says:

    whitestripe,

    Thats a good idea but I don't use the checking account for daily transaction except automatic payments. I use my credit card for daily transactions. So most of time checking account amount won't change a lot during the month. FOr people use checking account using debit card, its a good way and BOA america also does it automatically with an incentive which I am aware of.

  5. Jerry Says:

    The blind savings idea is a good one that leads to a regular investment that is painless... because you don't ever see the money! It's like the money that is taken out for taxes and insurance, it's gone before it hits the paycheck so you kind of forget about it a little.
    Jerry

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