Themes Tips for Money Management Budgeting Cost-Cutting Tips Debt Management
Slide 2Tips For Money Management
Slide 3Organization Files Personal Goals Plan for Extras Put aside for Christmas or Holidays
Slide 4Important Documents Social Security Card (with right name) Marriage Certificate Birth Certificate Children\'s Birth Certificate Will Power of Attorney?
Slide 5Comparison Shop! Arrange "would we be able to improve?" -Furniture -Car purchasing -Jewelry Day Care Counseling Services Health Services
Slide 6Budgeting
Slide 7Budgeting Fixed Expenses Variable Expenses Savings -Do not avoid this! - $5 a week X 52 weeks=$260 spared! - $20 a week X 52 weeks=$1040 spared! Salary Bills-you can move around your due date
Slide 8Cost-Cutting Tips
Slide 9Maintenance and Upkeep Transportation Dollars Tire upkeep - Pressure kept up - Wheels adjusted - Rotate your tires!
Slide 10Maintenance and Upkeep Transportation Dollars Oil changes Check your belts Tune ups Use the auto with better gas mileage Gasoline -$.03 X 12 gallons=$.36 -$.36 X 52 weeks= $18.72 reserve funds
Slide 11Maintenance and Upkeep Transportation Dollars Check Consumer Reports -gas mileage -support rating -security appraisals
Slide 12Shopping Cut Coupons Buy less costly brands Medication -ask a drug specialist and purchase nonexclusive brands -customary Sudafed $6.00, non specific $3.00
Slide 13Maintenance and Upkeep Home Turn down the warmth or air when not at home. Purchase machines with vitality sparing appraisals Seal flawed windows and entryways Fix defective fixtures Check the outside vent on your dryer
Slide 14General Cost-Cutting Review your link administration Review your telephone utility -are PDAs less expensive -telephone cards
Slide 15General Cost-Cutting Coffee -$1.50 a day (5 day week\'s worth of work) X 52 weeks=$390 (would you be able to top off at home) -$3.50 a day (5 day week\'s worth of work) X 52 weeks=$910 Eating out for nourishment -$4.00 X 3 days=$12 X 52 weeks=$624 a year
Slide 16Debt Management
Slide 17Credit Cards Compare loan fees -Consolidate cards that have high rates Check your FICO assessment! Is your base installment lower than your fund charge? To what extent is the special rate for and what is the rate a short time later?
Slide 18Loans Compare financing costs When you ensure it goes to your central! Equalization checks Can you stand to make an additional installment now? Early pay-offs