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What Should Be Your Current Financial To Do List?

August 20, 2018 4 Comments

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Let me start with a question, out of many things that you plan on doing this year, is there any personal finance related task in there? if not you’ll do a ton of good by adding some simple tasks like reviewing your insurance coverage, putting your valuables in bank locker or paying off that credit card debt.

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For me this is the year to increase contribution to our retirement fund. We may buy our first home this year, so if that happens there are plenty of financial things to take care of. At this time our financial house is in order. Although I always feel that we should reduce some expenditure and stop buying more and more thing.

(Related – How to Get your Personal Finance in Order, in a Day?)

Sorting out the cutter in your house, confessing to clandestine love and affairs, as well as settling all of your legal affairs were named as the top ways the public will use to seek some peace of mind this year. 

However, where a third of participants in the research understood the importance of creating a Will in order to secure their family’s financial future in the long-term, 50% of us think that simply just clearing out the junk from our attics or basement would be more important.

These results indicate a tendency to put off the bigger jobs that may have more long-term value in favor of doing smaller jobs which can pay off immediately.

According to the research, the top five things that the public think can bring them peace of mind are:

  1. Clearing out clutter and junk
  2. Telling someone that you love them
  3. Organizing your personal effects
  4. Paying the mortgage off
  5. Writing a will
  6. Repaying personal debts to those who lent you money

Where a third of people think that paying their mortgage off would be the thing to bring them peace of mind, nearly the same number of people thought that the same peace of mind could be achieved by just paying the money back to a loved one.

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Over 25% stated that settling arguments and feuds with friends and family would be enough to soothe their conscience. 36% said that organizing personal effects, like letters and photos would have the same effect, which perhaps shows that whilst stereotypes would show us as having a stiff upper lip, we are at our core, more focussed on emotional affairs, as opposed to financial or legal ones.

The reality is that whilst sorting out any clutter you have and doing ‘life laundry’ can be therapeutic to a degree, the importance of having properly maintained financial and legal affairs cannot be underestimated. There are almost 9 million adults in the UK who currently live with serious debt.

Creating a Will can be one of the most important things that you can do in order to protect the long-term financial security of your family. Failure to create one could have serious repercussions which can include legal wrangling, turmoil financially, and could lead to family feuds.

The best personal finance task that you can do is reducing or completely eliminating debt. One very achievable step would be to pick one debt out of several and completely pay the money off. Whatever you chose to follow, a debt snowball or paying the most expensive debt or even paying off the money you borrowed from your friend.

Readers, what do you have in your action plan for 2014?

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  1. Richard @ Frugality Magazine says

    February 15, 2014 at 2:27 PM

    Over the last few years my goal has been to pay off all my consumer debt – my credit cards, loans, overdrafts etc. Having pretty much completed this recently after a lot of hard work I now find myself with a “surplus” of money each month.

    Truth be told, I hate my job and feel it’s eating me alive. But it pays well. My goal is to try and stick it out for one more year while banking all the extra cash for the future. Then, with this nestegg safely tucked away, I plan to change jobs to a more enjoyable and stress-free employer.

    I *could* swap to a lower paying and more enjoyable job now so I see the major problem as sticking with my job, rather than managing to save the money as I have the “frugal lifestyle” part down pretty well in my opinion.

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  2. Mel @ brokeGIRLrich says

    February 17, 2014 at 1:05 PM

    My financial plans for 2014 are to build up a healthy emergency fund, max out my IRA, figure out how to roll over my old 401(k)s into the current one and try to find a job I’m actually excited to go to once in a while instead of something to pass the time till I can retire.

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  3. brian says

    February 26, 2014 at 2:49 AM

    My goal for 2014 is to work at establishing my consultancy businesses and, like everyone else get rid of my debt. My salary has reduced considerably but the life style and work life balance is what I’m now searching for. I love the freedom to be my own boss and chose the work i want to do. I’m exploring a whole range of strategies and am enjoying the exploration of learning new things. Live life and follow your dreams….

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  4. Carlos A. Meacham says

    August 28, 2018 at 6:58 AM

    During the past couple of years that my goal is to cover for off most of my unsecured debt my credit cards, loans, and overdrafts etc.. Having completed this newly after lots of work I find myself using an”excess” of funds monthly.

    In all honesty, I always believe that it’s eating me alive and also despise my career. However, it pays properly. Put it out and my first aim would be to try all of the cash. Using this particular specific nest-egg I intend to modify tasks to an even enjoyable and stress-free company.

    I couldswap to some reduced spending and a lot far much more pleasing endeavor today therefore that I view that the significant dilemma as staying together with my own occupation, as opposed to controlling to conserve some amount of cash like I possess the”frugal life style” down part quite nicely my own opinion.

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