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12 Reasons for having a Family Budget
The rationale and process of budgeting.
Here are twelve good reasons to get you started:
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1. Family budgets are used as a baseline, analysis-tool and roadmap. It is a useful tool and guide. It tells you whether you are headed in the direction you want to be headed in financially. It helps you to move from spending to saving and good fiscal balance, management and responsibility. You may have goals and dreams, but if you do not set up guidelines for reaching them and you do not measure your progress, you may end up going so far in the wrong direction you can never make it back. Can you imagine the government or a major corporation operating without a budget? No, and neither should you.
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2. It is often described and justified as an empowering enabler. A budget lets you control your money instead of your money controlling you.
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3. A budget is a realistic estimate and true reflection of current circumstance and means, a type of financial situation-analysis that will tell you if you are living within your means. Before the widespread use of credit cards, you could tell if you were living within your means because you had money left over after paying all your bills.
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There are lots of family budgeting tools available on line that make it a fun and enjoyable task and activity, to assess and analyze your family’s financial situation with minimum effort. (www.MoneyPants.com).
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There is also lots of free financial software and most of it sets up easily and provides you with a detailed family budget online. It manages your finances, hassle-free and almost effortless.
Well, almost! It will require input and minimum effort through hands-on involvement in setting it up, populating, maintaining and editing it. Mvelopes.com is a good example of market offerings that are available at no cost to you, just waiting for the motivated family budgeter to embrace and try it out!
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Some websites offer free financial newsletters by e-mail, with lots of money saving tips, budget advice, and other relevant personal and family-related financial information (www.planabudget.com).
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The availability, accessibility, virtual marketplace, ease of use and more of credit cards has made the need for family budgets much less obvious. Many people do not even realize they are living far beyond their means until they are knee deep in debt, struggling to make ends meet and sinking fast into murky financial waters.
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Budgeting is and can be a life and money saver, a reality check, BUT ALSO a remedy!
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4. A budget can help you meet your savings goals. It includes a mechanism for setting aside money for savings and investments.
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5. Following a realistic budget frees up spare cash so you can use your money on the things that really matter to you instead of frittering it away on things you do not even remember buying.
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6. A budget helps your entire family focus on common goals. It is unifying families in mutual purpose and effort, working together towards a successful outcome and reward.
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7. A budget helps you prepare for emergencies or large or unanticipated expenses that might otherwise knock you for a loop financially.
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8. A budget can improve your marriage. A good budget is not just a spending plan; it is a communication tool. Done right, a budget can bring the two of you closer together as you identify and work towards common goals and reduce arguments about money.
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9. A budget reveals areas where you are spending too much money, so you can refocus on your most important goals.
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10. A budget can keep you out of debt or help you get out of debt.
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11. A budget actually creates extra money for you to do use on things that matter to you.
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12. A budget helps you sleep better at night because you do not lie awake worrying about how you are going to make ends meet.
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Nevertheless, despite all these wonderful reasons quoted above, people are still hesitant to commit to family budgeting as standard practice in their households.
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Stay tuned for future posts that will reveal to you methods and tactics that can help you have a realistic family budget.
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