Five Strategies For Financial Independence
The first strategy is living below your means. Look at what Dave Ramsey tells us about making car payments, rather than investing that money:
“…the average car payment is $378 over 55 months. Most people get a car payment and keep it throughout their lives. As soon as a car is paid off, they get another payment because they ‘need’ a new car. If you keep a $378 car payment throughout your life, which is ‘normal,’ you miss the opportunity to save that money. If you invested $378 per month from age 25 to age 65, a normal working lifetime, in the average mutual fund averaging 12 percent (the 70-year stock market average), you would have $4,447,084.01 at age 65. Hope you like the car!”
Imagine how much you could save, if… Continue reading
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