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How To Make A Great Debt Payoff Plan
In the world of personal finance, one of the best feelings is when you become debt free. Once you become debt free it’s like a weight has been lifted, you can breathe a sigh of relief, you’re free!
Creating a debt payoff plan is the fastest way to become debt free. It’s motivating. It’s provides a clear goal. It creates a clear payment plan to follow. But what makes a great debt payoff plan? There are a few important things that a great debt payoff plan should include.
Whether you’re paying off a bunch of credit card debt, or a big line of credit, or a student loan, or just want to see how long it will take to become mortgage free, a great debt payoff plan can make this happen.
What should be included in a great debt payoff plan? These six things are top of our list… (plus you’ll get a sneak peek at our new Debt Payoff Plan which is exclusively for clients to use when creating a financial plan with PlanEasy!)
You Need An Emergency Fund
Out of all the ‘best practices’ in personal finance, emergency funds are probably the simplest and most effective. There is nothing easier to set up and nothing that provides more peace of mind than an emergency fund.
Emergency funds are boring, they are simple, and they hopefully never get used.
The purpose behind an emergency fund is simple. An emergency fund should provide quick access to cash in the event of an emergency. An emergency should be something truly unexpected like a job loss, a health emergency, an unexpected repair, an accident etc. Using an emergency fund for an expected expense is NOT the right way to use an emergency fund (more on that later).
Emergency funds can also be called an ‘e-funds’, ‘rainy day’ funds, or ‘oh $h!t’ funds. Whatever you call it, the purpose is the same, to help ease the financial burden during an emergency.
Yet, as simple as emergency funds are, they sometimes get used incorrectly. In this post we explore what an emergency fund is, how to set one up, how large it should be, and what NOT to do with an emergency fund.
Did Our Investment Plan Cost Us Thousands?
Like any good investor we have an investment plan, and one part of that investment plan involves rebalancing. We have a very specific rebalancing schedule and rebalancing rules. These rules help us know when we should and should not rebalance. But did these rules just cost us thousands?
In early 2020 the quick drop in investment values and equally quick recovery was an investment rollercoaster and it left more than a few people feeling slightly nauseous. It was incredible how quickly investment values declined, and it was equally incredible how quickly they recovered.
In hindsight, had we rebalanced during that dip, we could have been thousands of dollars richer today, perhaps even 10’s of thousands.
Why didn’t we rebalance during the drop? It wasn’t in our plan.