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Start out by budgeting items that are essential on a monthly basis. You should always start out with food, then housing and utilities, then transportation. When you start, always overfund the food category. Housing should not take up more than one fourth of your take home pay. If it is substantially higher than this, you may want to consider getting in a better housing situation. You should stay away from car payments by paying cash for cheaper cars whenever possible. If you owe a large balance on your cars, sell them and get cheaper ones! You should never pay interest on a depreciating asset.
After these four items, start by paying out the minimum amounts on all of your other debts. We will come back to paying more on these debts a little bit later. Next, plan for insurance payments. Then list out other personal expenses such as child-care, education, recreation money, and other things that you anticipate. Finally, set money aside for lump sum expenses such as car replacement, vacation, holiday gifts, etc.There should also be a category for 鈥渂low鈥?money. You will waste money from time to time so it is important to be aware of it and plan for it.
It is important to understand right now that you need to get out of debt if you have any (besides a house). The first step to doing this is to get some money in savings as an emergency fund (eventually 3-6 months expenses but at least 1,000 to get started) and cut up those credit cards if you have any. This way we accomplish the first step to getting out of debt which is putting yourself in a position to never have to borrow any more.
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