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5 Tips to Manage Household Finances

5 Tips to Manage Household Finances

10/28/2020 By Deborah T

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Running a household can get on top of anyone. Of course, you have the kids and the house to take care of, alongside everything inside it. But you also must manage the household finances. It can be a lot for one or even two people to track. However, you don’t have to do it all alone. Here, we’re going to look at five financial methods that can help keep you on top of all things in your own home.

Five Easy Ways to Manage Your Household Finances

Try one or more of these tips to help balance your household finances and achieve a better financial position.

1 – The number one ingredient of understanding household finances

The most important tool of all can’t be anything other than the budget. The budget takes a specific look at these items:

  • how much money you are earning
  • your expenses
  • where you should be putting that money

A budget is typically split into three different parts: essentials (including rent, bills, groceries, and the things that you literally cannot run a home without), discretionary purchases (luxury foods, nights out, subscription services, and so on), and financial goals.

The third part, which covers money you should be putting towards debts and savings, is most important of all. But many households fail to account for them at all. That oversight can leave them treading water financially for a long time without any chance of improving the situation. There are plenty of budgeting apps that can help you build a budget that helps you determine how you should be spending your money.

2 – Make sure you’re building the savings that you need

Once you start recognizing where your money is going and putting it aside for different kinds of expenses, you might want to know how much you need to put aside for what. A common financial goal is savings, whether it be for buying a home, preparing for retirement, paying off debts, or otherwise.

Tools like personal finance calculators can help you calculate how much you need to put aside in savings. That way, you can look at how much money you have to put towards financial goals, how far off the goal is, and how much it will take to reach the goal. This insight enables you to break down how much you should put aside per paycheck towards it.

3 – Track your expenses to reduce them

You cannot manage household finances without tracking spending. A budget can tell you how much you should be spending on different things, but the reality of what you are spending can often be different. In order to change that, you need to make sure you’re fully cognizant of where your money is actually going. To that end, you should make an effort to track every possible expense.

A lot of budgeting apps already have tools to help you do this, but these often require you to manually track and it’s easy to forget some expenses while you’re doing this. Checking your utility bills, printing out bank statements, and looking at your transaction records in any online payment portals you use can all help you track your expenses a lot better.

4 – Reducing your expenses with the right tech

Once you know that you’re overspending on certain things, the question then becomes: how do you reduce your spending on them? In part, tracking your expenses helps you become a lot more aware of what they are. You might see you have a habit of overspending on cups of coffee, so you might fill a thermos instead of stopping at the coffee shop every day. However, there are plenty of discount hunting apps that can help you find a lot of savings automatically, especially when it comes to saving online. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t find the means to reduce your expenses naturally. It just means you can automate some aspects of these savings, too.

5 – Make sure that the essentials get paid

This is a tool that people tend to be of two minds on. If you’re having trouble tracking your finances, then automating more payments can end up spending money when you’re not prepared, which can confuse your budget. However, if you have your budget set out and you are able to stick to it, then there’s no danger of setting up bill payments to go out automatically. This simply ensures that you don’t experience any late payments that can then lead to further charges.

The Bottom Line: Master your household finances and take charge of your financial wellness

The tools above can’t exactly exonerate you of the personal responsibility that you have to show towards your household finances. However, they can at least make things a lot easier to manage so long as you can make it a habit to make use of them.

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Deborah T
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Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Natural Health from a fully-accredited program and is a Certified Herbologist. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.
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About Deborah T

Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Natural Health from a fully-accredited program and is a Certified Herbologist. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.

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