financial planning
The Up-Sell
You can’t make it through a drive-through without “do you want to upsize that?”, “can we add a muffin?”, “do you want to make a donation to….”; no, thank you, I just want the coffee I ordered!
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Catastrophic expenses are those expenses that you have no reasonable expectation of knowing that they are coming and they have a material and negative impact on your finances to the extent that you cannot recover from the impact and, in fact, may not even be able to deal with the expense in the first place..
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Lumpy expenses, as I call them, are expenses that we know (or should know) are coming down the track and will have to be incurred but only happen once in a lifetime or only once every couple, few, 5, 10 or 15 years (or so). Lumpy expenses can cause significant stress if you have not prepared for them.
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Like monthly expenses, most annual expenses are predictable; at least to the extent that you know they are going to happen. Sometimes the amount is uncertain or the amount is discretionary (you set it – requires some internal fortitude to manage).
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Monthly expenses should be the most predictable of the expense categories. They happen every month. Some are fixed and some are variable. With your household income, you should be able to comfortably cover these expenses including covering seasonal variations.
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If you want to make a budget, you need to understand your expenses, short-term, medium-term and long-term. Monthly expenses can be fixed or variable. Annual expenses can be fixed and some variable.
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