In order to avoid personal finance disasters, make sure you have at least three months equivalent of your salary in the bank. This will mean that if you do run into difficulties, for instance losing your job or facing other unexpected expenses like house or car repairs, you’ll be able to cover the cost.

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It is helpful to take along an envelope with you when you are shopping. That way, you have a safe place you can store business cards and receipts. Keeping up with these items can help you to maintain more accurate financial records. You might need these receipts later to compare against your credit card’s monthly statements in case a double charge…[Read more]

Banks offer two different types of loans: fixed and variable interest rate loans. Try to avoid variable interest rate loans at any cost as they can turn into a disaster. Fixed rate loans will have the same interest rate throughout the loan’s life. The interest rate of the variable rate loans and their monthly payments change either by following…[Read more]