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Newlywed’s Guide to Building a Budget

Getting married can be exciting. Once the honeymoon is over you’ll begin settling into the routine of married life. Your decisions from now on will no longer just affect one person; it will also affect your spouse. To avoid falling into financial issues, one of the first things you should do as a couple is to create a household budget.

Regardless of whether you and your spouse have lived together before, prior to being married you both made and spent money independently. As a married couple, you will now have different priorities and being financially stable is important. Buying a home, making investments for your future, having children, all of that requires financial stability.  Building and maintaining a budget will help you ensure that you and your wife/husband spend and save your income wisely. Here’s a guide we put together for newlyweds just like you, who want some guidance on how to build a budget with their spouse:

So you’re enjoying life, working a job that gets you decent money, and you’re ready to move forward in life. Maybe you’re someone who takes life “one day at a time” or perhaps you just “go through the motions” of making money and paying bills in a never-ending cycle. If you’re really ready to move forward in life there’s one thing you cannot live without, a financial vision.

Your credit score is a number you need to know. This score is a numerological representation of your ability to pay your bills on time and maintain good credit use. Lenders of all types, some employers, insurance companies, and others use this score to determine how trustworthy and reliable you are. It pays to do your best to ensure it is the highest it can be.

Nowadays with more and more information being backed up and stored on the cloud, you might wonder if you really need a safe deposit box. The answer is really dependent on the individual asking.

Yes, it is true digital files make storing records much easier today. However, there are many important documents you may prefer to still store in a safe deposit box, amongst many other items.

So this pay period looks to be a great windfall. You’ll have that extra bit to sock away for a rainy day. When we ask people what they plan to do with the extra money, many of them tell us that they plan to invest it toward their retirement.

Seeking out investments to build personal wealth and to have a nest egg for retirement is a great idea that more people need to do during their early working life. Unfortunately, when we ask people how much of an emergency fund they have available, many will shake their heads. They may not have any emergency funds set aside or they hope they have enough in their checking account to cover the unexpected expenses.