Archive for the 'Budgeting' Category

Emergency cash How much to keep?

Suzie Orman says: Keep enough money in ultra safe accounts to cover life’s emergencies, – say 8 months expenses – but no more. Financial planners talk only of an income emergency. They do not talk about an asset emergency. When your assets crash and you are reluctant to sell at the current prices it is [...]

Retirement and longevity

This is not a debate on whether you will live long or not live long. It is simple and easier to assume that you will live long – pretty long if you ask me. If your grand parents are pushing 85, your father is in his 2nd innings, but still holding a job at the [...]

Budgeting: Reduce your stress!

Delayed gratification is so boring! Particularly when it comes to finances, constantly pinching pennies and saving all your extra cash is pretty darn boring. Which is why so few people do it well. There are too many fun things to spend money on.Yet, unrestrained spending (especially the kind that lands us in debt) is the [...]