Archives For Money Fundamentals

Do you handle your family’s financials? Are you the one balancing the checkbook each month (do people really still do that)? How do you know where you stand from day-to-day with your finances? In case you do the bookkeeping, do you still use pen and paper and a truck load of receipts to do that? In IT age, old style bookkeeping is obsolete.

Household Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping as an activity always was and still is an important aspect of managing personal finance. Keeping track of earnings and spending are two most important aspects of managing personal finance. This post is not about managing your household books electronically with the help of modern software tools which will make your job easier and less time consuming.

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I always talk about penny-pinching in this blog. The name also suggest the same thing. Here’s a guest post extended to us for posting, which talks about penny-pinching as followed by some well known celebrities. The aim is the inspire you to follow the path of frugality, even when you have enough cash to spend. Enjoy the post.

Warren Buffet Frugal Living

Living a frugal life is nowadays a trendy attitude that is not only observed among regular people, but also promoted by many celebrities. Celebrities who choose to live frugal are shifting to a simpler lifestyle that allows them to live better, spend less money and increase their inner wellness.

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If 2012 was a hard financial year for you, you might be wondering if the outlook for 2013 is any brighter. The worst thing you can do however is get in a slump and force yourself into a rut that you can’t get out of. And, if 2012 had been a bright year for you, you must have home worked on the strategies that worked. You must now think about polishing them further and getting sweeter rewards in 2013.

Finance control 2013

You need to take decisive action to get all aspects of your finances under control and you need to be able to prioritize appropriately in order to ensure that you are getting to the point where you want to be financially at your own pace.

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So far we have written articles like What is Personal Finance, care for our money,  spending Money on self improvementfinding a balance between earning and spending and not missing good opportunities to spend. They were all fundamental money management related articles. Here’s another one from our guest Mayank Gupta.

Financial Planning

What is Financial Planning

Financial Planning is nothing but making a plan for your future financial goals like retirement planning, child, marriage and others and managing your hard earned money in a way that you are able to achieve them. Managing money includes investing money in right asset classes and spending money keeping in mind the pre-set limit. A lot of people might or might not be aware of this financial planning knowledge. Let’s have a reality check and see:

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We don’t have a kid, not yet. But, ever since I visited the site money as you grow, I was thinking of writing something around it. It’s so important to impart early financial lessons on your kids! This site is promoted by federal govt. If you are a parent and want to start teaching money to your kid, you can start with this very simple and powerful site.

Although I don’t have a child, that shouldn’t stop my thought process on educating kids about money so that they can be financially responsible with money when they grow up. It’s so important in today’s Topsy-Turvy economy. I wrote about importance of teaching personal finance early before, I also mentioned how you can use garage sells as money lessons for your kid.

This article is about ways to teach them importance of saving money, which is first step before you teach concept of credit to them.

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