Have you ever wondered how people can save money?
How can they get the money they need even really thinking about it?
I tried myself a couple of methods and I love them…but again, this is very personal and just try to do your best….
If you are old version and if you have Mason Jars (I’m a huge fan of them…), you just pick a few bucks and every week you can decide how much you want to put inside: $10, $20….That really depends on you. Or you can follow a schedule where the first week you put $1, and the second one $2….until $53 weeks (you can actually get $1431!!!)
It is an old way of savings but this way, you can really see your savings growing (and sometimes at the bank, you have the feeling that you don’t really save anything…unless you have a special account for that or I’m waiting to get this magical app where you can actually put your money aside)
I love seeing that all my efforts are paying out…especially when I have dreams that I want to follow: traveling, wedding, house, car…(this is up to you…)
For the people who love the app, you have a few where you can make a few savings, like
-Acorns. You have to enter all your information before you can have access (and yes your SSN), but after doing that and linking your bank account (and it is really safe!), every single cent you spend, Acorns is going to round up to the next dollar and you will save it. The day you decide to stop that, it is really easy, you just turn the money you have on the application into your bank account!!!!
I know there are many other options, but I think that the point to get where you want to be financially is up to you. It is always your choice and it is up to you if you decide to go every day to Starbucks or Tim Hortons, or if you really want to have useless clothes who cost a fortune…
I think that what you need is to learn how to budgets every month or every two weeks…and I will talk about it in another post.
