How to Save Cash by Spending Money

How to save cash by spending money? Is this question sounds absurd to you? I hope it doesn’t, because this is for real and it is one of the forgotten ways to save your cash and the money you have in the bank. To save cash, we don’t just think about money, we also need to consider time. Moreover, in considering time, we don’t just recognize the short-term outcome, but we also need to identify the long-term results. We should understand that not all cash savings we are doing now can save as money in the near future. On the other hand, we should also remember that not all cash spending we are doing today can exhaust our money in the long run.

Many people actually fail to save money because they are afraid to spend it. Some businessmen even become bankrupt because they keep so much money. Why are these events happening? Read more

Money Bible Verses: On Saving and Emergency Fund

Saving money seems to be an easy task. But the reality tells the other way around. The truth is… it is difficult to set aside money. This is because we do not only encounter controllable temptations to spend money, but also we often face uncontrollable circumstances that lead us to use them. These unmanageable circumstances include our routine necessity to buy our daily food, unexpected medical expenses, unanticipated repair expenses, and other expenditures we must not ignore. Thus, it is just wise to save money for these kinds of events we don’t expect to happen anytime in the future. Read more

Personal Finance Tips #7: Educate Yourself

Knowledge is power! That is why if you want to strengthen your personal finance, you need to gain knowledge. Our seventh personal finance tip is to educate ourselves. Education doesn’t only mean you need to go to a school or a university to acquire it. It also includes education outside from schools. Education can also be our personal asset that cannot be robbed from us by any theft – though it can be shared and make yourself useful to the community. Knowledge or wisdom can be acquired from listening, reading, experiencing or from reflecting one’s self. It serves as our light in every direction we Read more

Personal Finance Tips #6: Forget the Money

The title of this article may sound absurd. How can we become financially stable if we forget or ignore money? But what most of us don’t know is that too much attention on money can bring us financial disasters, and even a whole life problem. Many people have loved money more than anything else. They even sacrifice their real treasures and assets for money. They have forsaken their loved ones and even God for the love of money. Other people give up their integrity, honesty and good name just to not lose money. Aren’t they aware that the love of money is the root of all evil? And evil can lead us to destruction – even financial Read more

Personal Finance Tips #5: Be Diligent

When it comes to delivering wisdom to my readers, especially on money and finance, I often refer to the Bible. I believe that the Holy Scriptures, which already existed thousands of year ago, are filled with powerful wisdom that if practiced by us, will make our lives better. Its passages can also guide us to better financial living and better management of our money, as well as our debts. Now, in my fifth personal finance tips series, I am introducing diligence as an important virtue that will help us achieve our financial success and freedom. I’m telling this because diligence, according to the Bible can bring us the Read more

Personal Finance Tips #4: Value and Importance

Here is another personal finance tip I want to share to all my readers. In an objective to attain financial stability, we need to take a good look to our personal finances. We need to stand firmly for the achievement of our financial goals. We just not need to plan, set goals and do the steps to achieve those goals. We need to give those things a great importance. We must value what we think, what we feel, and what we do to our personal finance. Every task we made and every goal we target, we must think and feel how much they are important to us. We must put an essence to all things we do. This essence exists when we Read more

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