Archive for 'Save Money'
Just 1%
Objective: Raising your 401k contribution rate by just 1% is one of the easiest ways to improve your savings rate. Assuming you make $50,000 gross annually, a 1% increase would only reduce your take-home pay by about $30 a month, while increasing your future nest eggs by tens of thousands of dollars.
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Reduce Controllable Expenses
There’s nothing that I hate more than wasting money. You’ll be surprised at how much extra money you can save by just eliminating controllable purse and wallet busters.
Lowering these expense means giving up on things that you don’t need or just reducing the amount of time or money invested in these things.
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Help From The Feds: Free Tax Preparation
Tax time is one of the most enjoyable times of the year for me. It’s time to get back a little of what the government took from me last year. I really look at taxes as a deferred savings plan.
One thing that bums me out is the cost of doing taxes. [...]