Take your Savings to Next Level !

Today , we will talk about how you can take your savings to next level.

1.  Review your expenses and Savings once in 6 months.

You will be able to find out gaps – unnecessary expenses happening, Surplus lying idle in Bank accounts which can be put to better use.

Below is a review done for a client, sharing for your reference:

Earlier		Now		What Changed
DTH Bill for 3 Set top boxes	Rs. 2400 per month	These were mostly not used and same plans were not reviewed since the time it was installed , only 2 are running now with reduced packages and third was already a smart TV, hence not required on that TV	Rs.1100 per month	Savings of Rs.1300 per month
Savings bank account average balance of 3 months	10 lacs earning interest of 3.5 -4 %	This amount is lying for past 5 years in savings bank account  as emergency fund	10 lacs per month shifted to liquid funds at interest rate of  5-6 %	Additional Interest earned Rs.53000 in 2 years
Airtel postpaid plan	Rs.1500 per month	Reviewed and changed to Rs.499 per month with same plan features	Rs.500 per month	Savings of Rs.1000 per month
			Investing the saved 2300 per month in bank RD for 2 years gives Rs.60000	Total additional income from this exercise Rs.1.13 Lacs

2.  Online Shopping on cash instead of Pre paying.

You can order online from now on on cash on delivery instead of pre paying through debit/ credit card or net banking. I am sure you must be thinking, what difference will it make? I have started doing it and following are the changes I can see. Of course, Prepaid is more convenient.

For working people like us, who will manage CODs and all , however can try and use prepaid to the minimum.

Let me tell you why:

ADVANTAGES

Most of the times, giving cash from my wallet made me think about the shopping done- was it actually required. Most of the times answer was NO, it was an impulse purchase.

While submitting order as COD, there comes a confirmation call – If you confirm the order just placed , press 1 else 2 . My reflex automatically trigerred me to press 2.

Eating through Plastic money is way more convenient, however value of money looks smaller when we are not paying hard cash.

It pinches to give cash for something that we feel is already there in our wardrobe, already there in our homes and was just bought that time to get instant gratification

I have saved 8K in last 6 months by following this practice. I can confidently tell this from my past shopping trends which were done as prepaid orders. 

 If I continue this for next 1.5 Years, I will be saving Rs.32000 and after 2 years it will be worth Rs. 36600 if invested in liquid funds.  So, total savings till now is Rs. 1.13 lacs and 36600, remember this till the end.

3.  Diversifying in the unknown territory.

Mutual funds are still an unknown territory as 80 % of Indians prefer FD than Mutual funds as they don’t want to enter an unknown territory, but Yaad hai na Mountain Dew ka slogan “ Darr ke aage Jeet hai”

Things are beautiful beyond the comfort zone, so, lets at least give it a try and see if it makes any difference to our wealth.

	FD / RD/ Fixed instrument offering 7% ROI	Mutual funds offering 10% ROI
Monthly investment	5000	5000
Value at the end of 5th year	3.57 Lacs	3.85 Lacs
Value at the end of 10th year	8.60 Lacs	10.07 Lacs
Value at the end of 15th year	15.64 Lacs	20.10 Lacs
Value at the end of 20th year	25.52 Lacs	36.20 Lacs

 Difference is higher in long run which means this option can be opted for long term goals and part of our investments can go towards Mutual funds as well.

So, by doing just 3 simple changes , we have actually taken our savings to the next level.

 What did we gain actually?

So , total savings come out to Rs. 1.13 lacs, Rs. 36600 and 1.47 lacs ( taking 10 year difference) = Rs.2,96,600

Howzatt ! I am sure nobody feels bad if some extra money comes in without any extra work actually.

So, here is wishing all the best that you may take your savings to the next level.