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The Balancing Act of Spending & Saving

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The Balancing Act of Spending & Saving
February 09, 2023

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Creating good habits related to your finances can help you save money. Nonetheless, establishing a way to save is not enough for your future financial health to flourish. Saving is a good start, but you may have trouble doing so because you want to spend money too. The trick to sound financial tactics is not just to save but to invest your savings and grow your wealth. What you save now will not be enough for your future. Spending and saving go hand in hand, but the saving and investing part has a lot more to do with your future financial security than spending does.

How to Balance your Spending and Saving?

The hardest thing that some individuals face when it comes to saving money is to start the process. Getting started involves a concrete plan. Whether you are in business or earning a salary, there are ways to save and spend at the same time. You have to remind yourself that humans are creatures of habit, and most spending may be just undertaken for the momentary pleasure of owning something new, or because of the habit of shopping. As you may know, breaking a habit is hard to do, but thinking rationally about your future finances can be a wake-up call for spending and saving.

Nobody likes the word “budget”, but this is the key to balancing your savings and spending. Living on a budget can help you take your savings and investing to new heights, and soon you will be in the habit of thinking along the lines of how best to allocate your capital.

Steps to Balance you’re Spending and Saving

When you get down to it, you can set yourself on the path to saving money and investing it into lucrative channels that will help you in the future. If you are earning a salary, saving is easy. How? If you allocate a certain portion of your salary to your household income and the rest to investments, your wealth will grow gradually. Here are some tactics to get on to the saving and investing bandwagon, thinking of how much you can grow your wealth to have your best life:

  • Set your goals

    Get yourself organized and set your goals. Every individual wishes to fulfill certain aims and reach unique milestones in life. If you are clear in your aims, working to achieve them will be easier.

  • Build a budget

    Money may come into your possession every month. However, you cannot spend it all on flippant expenses as you need money for basic essentials. You have to budget for how much you can afford to save, spend and keep aside for your daily needs. Segregate your desires from your requirements. Even if you manage to save and in a small percentage, it will help your corpus to grow.

  • Set your plan in motion

    Once you have a plan, you must carry it forward to the next level. For example, instead of thinking about how much you need to pay your bills, have bill payments done in an automated way, so that essentials are taken care of without you spending that money on non-essentials and facing debt later. Spending and saving can be controlled with a few practical steps.

  • Understand your credit score

    Your credit score reflects your financial health. You can evaluate your credit score and examine your report. If you have room for improvement, start working on it.

  • Make adjustments

    You have made goals and a budget. That is not enough. From time to time, you have to revisit these and see if you are still working on them as you had planned.

Thinking of Investment and Insurance

A sensible way to allocate your money, rather than spend it fruitlessly or have it lying in a bank account, is to invest it. So you can buy products like pension plans, insurance and investment cum insurance products that will give you financial protection in the future, plus save your money instead of spending it.

DISCLAIMER

This material has been prepared for information purposes only, should not be relied on for accounting advice. You are requested to seek advice from your personal advisor.

ARN - ED/01/23/31737

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