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Financial Literacy
Course: Financial Literacy > Unit 2
Lesson 3: Saving money- Why and how to save
- Why and how should I save money?
- Planned and unplanned expenses
- I am ready to save. What is the next step?
- Saving wisely: emergency fund
- Emergency fund
- Saving wisely
- Saving wisely: planned expenses
- Paying yourself first
- Pay yourself first
- Paying yourself first
- What are different types of savings accounts?
- What is interest and how does it work?
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Why and how to save
There are a number of reasons why you should save money. Having savings can help you be prepared for unexpected expenses, work towards long-term goals, and reduce stress by providing a sense of financial security. To save, it's important to budget and identify areas where you can cut expenses. Automating your savings through direct deposit or apps can help make the process easier, and keeping your savings in a separate account can help you resist the temptation to spend it. Created by Sal Khan.
Want to join the conversation?
- what is the actual best way to save up if you are a spender(5 votes)
- place what money you have, and what money you receive in the future, into some sort of container or account to which you do not have access. Then you can't spend it.(8 votes)
- boop beep boop?(3 votes)
- what dou have todo(2 votes)
- what is the best why to invest but also save(1 vote)
- Although there is no "best way" to invest, I personally find it a good first investment to go into something that is quite stable and that has been increasing for a very long time. Keep in mind when reading this though, I have no formal background in finance or anything for that matter. I believe that investing in precious metals will serve you well in the long term (10+ years), and honestly would be a great investment if you have the capitol. Other than that, I would look into stable cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and try to get some during the next big drop in value. Additionally, I suggest looking at all the different ways to invest such as day trading, option trading, etc.
Hope this helps!(1 vote)
- What are the best ways to invest but also save?(1 vote)
- Save first. Save first. Don't invest until you have enough to take care of yourself in case the investment turns out to be a loser, or in case you suddenly have an accident and need the money fast. Invested money is hard to get right away.(1 vote)
- If you make 14 dollars an hour working 16 hours a week how much percentage of that money should you be saving. In order to later invest in something big.(1 vote)
- There's a suggested plan in one of these lessons, the 50-30-20 principle. That's the plan to follow.
As for investing in something big, like buying a factory, a farm, a house or an executive jet.... that might take a long time for you to achieve.(1 vote)
- We’ll I guess I’m the third person to comment on this
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- The differences are in possible return. Saving means putting money in an insured account. If the bank fails, you get your money back from the insurance company. Investment means putting your money into some sort of stock or bond. If the company fails, you could lose it all. BUT, the return on successful investment is more than on insured bank deposits.
As they say at the carnival, "Ya pays ya money and ya takes ya chances."(0 votes)
Video transcript
- So I'm guessing that
you already have a sense that saving money is a good idea. It's good for a rainy day. That's why we have an emergency fund. There might be unexpected interruption to your income or
unexpected costs that happen from your car breaking down,
or maybe medical expenses, or you might wanna save for something like retirement or a
down payment on a house. But the next question is how do you actually go
about saving the money? We all know it's sometimes
a little bit more fun to spend money than to save money. And what I do personally,
well, I do a few things. First of all, try to set a budget, and we talk about that
in-depth in other videos. Think about what your
after-tax income is every month and then think about
your needs, your wants, and then how much you save. We've talked about the 50, 30, 20 rule, which is just a rule of thumb. Try to at least save 20% of your money. And the way that you
save 20% is spend no more than 50% on needs, no
more than 30% on wants. Now, obviously, if you
can save more than 20% of your money, even better,
but then how do you do that? One thing is set aside some money. Every paycheck, could be every week, every other week, it could be every month. That's just a little bit harder to access. Maybe your money from
your pay gets deposited into your checking account,
either automatically, or you deposit a check. Well, maybe every month. And there's ways that
you can automate this. You make a transfer from your checking account
to your savings account. Makes it a little bit harder
for that money to be accessed and you will only access that money. You tell yourself, "Self, I will only access that money
in an actual rainy day." The other thing to remind yourself is a little bit every day, or
every week, or every month, can add up to a lot. It might feel like, hey, if I save only a hundred
dollars this week, what's the big deal? Maybe I should just spend it. But remember, if you save
a hundred dollars per week, that's going to amount to
$5,200 over the course of a year which is going to amount to $52,000 over the course of 10 years. And that's before we even think about how you could invest it and even grow it above and beyond that. So even that hundred dollars
a week goes a long, long, long way to building your wealth and obviously protecting
you and your family from those rainy days,
from those emergencies.