Take Control of Your Household Finances

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Maintaining a regular assessment of your family finances is essential to the family’s financial welfare. The following tips will help you take charge of your household finances.

Credit Card Use

If you have a credit card, use it, but don’t forget to pay the entire sum, not the minimum amount, at the end of the month. Use your credit card wisely.

Rule of Thumb

Household expenses should be lower than 33% of household income. If it is higher, think of cutting down your expenses. Below are useful tips to cut down your household expenses.

1. Always clean your air-conditioners.

2. When you do the laundry, do it full load.

3. Put thimbles on your taps

Assign Book Keeping Duties to Your Children

If you have kids, share them a simple task in book keeping, like data-entry. This will make them understand basic financial principles. It will also teach them to become responsible and promote good financial practice.

Organize Your Financial Statements

List down your finances. Have a notebook or a ledger. If you have an access to a computer, organize the physical bills and statements by putting everything into a spreadsheet. You don’t even have to pay up cash for a spreadsheet.

The following tips will help you organize your financial statements.

1. To save time from entering data, get soft copies of bills and statements, if possible.

2. Save your files and have back-up of them. You can use CD-R or thumb drive. Then keep them in a safe place.

Plan Your Finances

If there is only one in the household is working, and there is not much sources of income, consider an insurance plan for the breadwinner. Financial worries are not something your family should cope with in the event the sole breadwinner is incapacitated.

Do It Regularly

The more you postpone, the more it piles up. Give at least half an hour each week to analyze your finances.

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