Automate your finances – Perspectives from the Fool and Ramit Sethi

Below is a good summary of the automations you can make to simplify and improve your finances, courtesy of the Motley Fool:

Use the tips in this article and automate:

1) Your savings via direct deposit of your paycheck to your checking or savings accounts.  Depending on what your employer allows (ask HR), you can break up your direct deposit by placing some of your money in a checking account and some in a savings or brokerage account.

2) Your retirement via 401k contributions straight from your paycheck.

3) Your credit card bill by automatic payment of at least the monthly minimum plus whatever else you can afford (if you have a revolving balance) or the whole amount each month (the preferable choice.)

4) Your other bills by signing up for automatic payment on utilities, student loan, car payment, and even your rent or mortage (using your bank’s online bill payer if the company you’re paying doesn’t have an online payment option.)

5) Take a page out of Ramit Sethi’s book by opening high-interest savings accounts to auto-save for large purchases like weddings, cars and houses, or smaller things like a plasma TV or that $500 pair of Jimmy Choo heels.  (A really fantastic article on finance automation by Sethi is link here.  The article gets into the nuts and bolts of how to picture and implement the above.  I highly recommend reading it.)

Automate your finances to save time, money and peace of mind!

Author: Ward Williams

Ward is an independent financial advisor at Better Tomorrow Financial. He started working as an independent investment advisor in 2009.

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