Thursday, February 21, 2008

Money Management Tips

When you are out of work then money management can be a challenge for you. To manage money properly it is important for you to know the exact amount of money which is coming into your household and the amount of money is going out.

If you find your financial situation unhealthy, don’t hide it. Some of us try to hide our financial realities; they never check their credit card and bank account balance as they are afraid of the truth. This approach can’t be appreciated because it can only increase your debt and financial stress life. The solution may be to open your eyes and look at your current financial situation and try to control over it.

How can you control your finances?

  • Try to write down every single dollar you spend. It’s called tracking of expenses. If you can track your expenses properly then you can find the way out to control it.
  • Try to be realistic about your money. If money comes hard to you, then try to be a bit frugal.
  • Find out areas where you can cut down your expenses. There are many areas where we don’t put attention but they are taking lots of amount from us. After finding them take necessary actions to save your money.
  • Make a proper budget at the beginning of each financial year and try hard to maintain it.

Among all the points mentioned above, tracking of money is the most important one of financial management. If you can track it properly then you can take appropriate action according to the situation.

To know more about money management you can visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_management

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

How to transform debt to wealth

Many of us will be surprised to hear that, debt can also be turned into wealth by taking some appropriate planned steps. Yes it is very much possible by taking some correct, well planned steps and guidance. Of course you should not forget that you have to work hard for it. Let me share my thoughts.

The first step would be to identify all your debts and to think possible ways to pay off or eliminate them. Your car payments, mortgage payments, credit card bills should be paid off as quickly as possible. To pay off your debt, you need to identify your monthly income and the amount that you can spend. Actually you have to set up a good relationship between earning and payment of debts.

What you can do now! Just arrange all your debts in ascending order. Least amount debts should come first and the large once should come later. So it will be easier to pay off your small amount debts and the no. of creditors will be lesser. One creditor out of your account is a great relief and one by one every creditor will be paid off.

If you can’t manage your debt of your own then you can obviously go for debt consolidation program. By opting this program you don’t have to think about all your creditors’ payment but to think about monthly payment to the consolidation company. The debt consolidation company will handle all your creditors from now on.

Now the question comes how you can turn your debt to wealth. You need to avoid using credit cards as much as possible and have to avoid spending money on unnecessary things. If you can lesser the use of credit cards then you are limiting future possibility of being in debt. You can surely use debit card instead of credit card. This is the way you can erase debts and can turn debt to wealth.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Ron Paul Radio Ad: Economy

Monday, February 04, 2008