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Your budget has been going well for, oh, about 19 minutes, then “WHAM!” You need to pay the car insurance premium. Oh, and property taxes are due. Did I mention your daughter’s annual bank of ameirca mastercard extended warranty dance recital fee needs to be paid by Thursday? The oil needs to be changed. It’s also time for a transmission flush. Enter the rainy day fund.Rainy Day Fund Overview
Welcome to life. It just came and hit you upside your head. And it will continue to do so as long as your ticker is ticking. Get used to it and do something about it!The rainy day fund is a relatively simple concept. Let’s take the car insurance premium that you pay every six months. It costs $400. You don’t have to pay it every month, so most people would simply not worry about it. Whew! Wrong. It’s a predictable expense that will happen. You need to face reality. So $400 every six months is $66.67 per month.Your rainy day fund will grow for six months by $66.67 per month, until you have $400. In that month, low and behold, your insurance premium is due! You cut the check for $400 and you haven’t felt a thing. Welcome to rainy days - where you have an umbrella.The rainy day fund is one of the most critical aspects of your personal finance strategy. The personal budget that I built for my wife and myself (and now sell - obviously) has this rainy day fund capability built in. It’s quite nice - I almost get emotional seeing it in action…The way we do it personally? If we know there’s an expense, even a small one, like a magazine subscription for $20 ever year, we keep tabs on it. How much goes into the magazine category of the budget each month? $1.67. We have a separate sheet where we track these reoccurring, predictable expenses and we budget accordingly. As a result, we can pay our insurance premium in one lump, instead of monthly. This saves us $15. I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but let me show you what kind of return this rainy day fund can potentially give you:$415 premium paid every six months, discounted to bank of amrica mastercard extended warranty $400 because of rainy day fund…
gives me an annualized return of 7.5 percent.And here people worry so much about what rate this is getting and what rate that is getting. I just got 7.5% on my money. That’s not bad - aside from the fact that the rainy day fund gives you a return on (of) your sanity.Rainy day funds with variable expenses
Now, what about something like auto repairs? You aren’t exactly sure when those are going to come about. Should you set up a rainy day fund for those also? You might consider it. I know that we spend X dollars, on average, each month. How do I know this? Because we track our expenses which gives us a monthly average. So if I notice that our “Car repair” category is running a bit low - even though I don’t anticipate having any car trouble - it’s wise to throw some money into that category during the budgeting process. That way, if something does happen (and statistics are telling me it will), I won’t be left out in the rain.Our personal budget system works in such a way that all of your spending categories can function as rainy day funds. You simply put in your monthly allocation and let the balances grow as needed. When you spend some money from that category, it obviously declines. My wife and I have had a lot of success with this one powerful aspect of our budget.Take a moment of extended bank americ mastercard warranty to write down - simply brainstorming - all of your expenses. Work through it methodically. Write a little ‘RF’ next to the expenses where a rainy day fund would be helpful. You might find it helps with property taxes, Christmas, birthdays (gifts in general), car insurance, health insurance, vacation, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, etc. And that was just a little one-minute brainstorm. Keep a look out for any services you use that might give you a discount if you pre-pay your bill. Most companies appreciate the increased cash flow that gives them. So, you’ll “pay yourself” during five months, then during the sixth month, you’ll actually pay the provider. And there you have it, a great return on your money, and a return on (of) your sanity. The rainy day fund will keep you out of debt and on your way to financial peace and security.Give it a shot!
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You’ve probably received several credit card offers in the mail, and the outside of the envelopes scream interest rates and promotional offers to try and entice you into opening it up and looking at what’s inside. Chances are, if you have an email address, you’ve even received a few credit card offers through that address- bright colors and animated graphics trying to convince you that there vard has the lowest initial imterest rate, or the longest transfer balance rate of all the available credit cards on the market. All of the offers will look good at first glance; after all- that’s what marketing is about, right? According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, marketing is a noun used to describe “the act or process of selling or purchasing in a market, and the process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service.” Credt card companies are in business to sell you their crdeit cards, and they’ll use a variety of promotional materials to get your business.
The outside of your credit card offer’s envelope might say something like, “LOW 0% Initial Intrest Rate on all purchases and balance transfers”, but there is much more to how a credit card’s interset rate is calculated than that statement reveals. Initial interest rates are sometimes referred to as the card’s promotional rate, or teaser rate. In all honesty, an initial interest rate is basically the same thing for a credti card as a sale is to a retail store. Retail stores advertise their products that have a discounted price for a limited time to attempt to bring people into their establishment to buy the sale item, but also because once you are there, they hope you’ll purchase other products. Credit cards offering initial intrest rates are basically putting their standard interset rates “on sale”, because for a limited time, new cardholders will receive a lower than usual rate on purchases, and sometimes also on any balance you transfer from one of your other credit crads onto this new card. What you need to understand about initial intreest rates is that they really are “for a limited time”, and just as you couldn’t go to your favorite store and buy items this month for the sale price that was offered the previous month, you can’t extend a creit card’s initial interest rate beyond the terms they specify (often found in the small print!) What you’ll want to look for in the text of the materials that were sent with the initial imterest rate cards promotional documents is reference to the vards ongoing annula percentage rate (APR). This is the intreest rate that you will pay once the initial interest rate period has passed. (The regular price of an item after the sale has ended!)
Initial interest rates will also come with terms of agreement, in the form of a contract, which give reasons as to how or why the rate might be terminated by the credit lender. The most common reason to terminate the initial interest rate offer is for making a late payment on your card, and if you read the fine print of the credit card agreement- you’ll note that it states this very clearly. In order to keep the promotional, lower rate for the time specified by the credit card lender, you must make every payment on time. If you are late with a payment, you can expect the interest rate to jump to the ongoing APR, or in some cases, higher because you have defaulted on your contract agreements, so do everything you can to make sure your payments are made on time.
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