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How can you recover financially after a summer of spending?
Experts say Americans can cut $30 to $100 a month, earn higher savings yields and raise 401(k) contributions by 1% to rebuild after summer spending.
- Current released five financial challenges Wednesday to help Americans reset budgets after summer spending. The steps include canceling unused subscriptions, boosting retirement savings, and finding higher savings yields.
- Heading into the summer, research from PwC found Americans planned to spend $2,800 on travel alone. This seasonal spending left many budgets stretched thin, prompting fall recalibration.
- CNET recently found adults waste $252 annually on unused subscriptions. To trim $30 to $100 per month, experts suggest reviewing bank statements for unnecessary "fun money" spending on discretionary items.
- Trenton Leffingwell, investment advisor at Titleist Asset Management, and Brian Carlson, partner at Summit Investment Advisors, recommend maxing out Roth IRAs. Carlson suggests boosting retirement plan rates by 1% can grow contributions significantly.
- With higher interest rates, Leffingwell suggests moving idle cash into savings products offering competitive yields. "Your idle cash should be earning a competitive interest rate," he says, rather than earning minimal returns.
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How can you recover financially after a summer of spending? - The Mexico Ledger
How can you recover financially after a summer of spending?If summer spending left your budget stretched thin, you're not alone. Whether it was a water park, an outdoor concert or sporting event, or some air conditioning at the movie theater, summer fun costs money. Heading into the summer, research from PwC found that on average, Americans planned to spend $2,800 on travel alone. Tack on a dinner out here and a boat rental there, and it's easy …
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How can you recover financially after a summer of spending?
Current reports on recovering financially after summer spending with five actions: cancel unused subscriptions, boost savings rates, trim budgets, increase 401(k) contributions, and max out Roth IRA contributions.
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