Some of the crucial money lessons I learned in the past few months both from personal experience and from watching other people
1 Invest in the future of your kids so that they have something to fall back on:
There is a saying that even though I don't come from a wealthy home, a wealthy home will come out from me. The ease with which your kids will experience life when you consciously focus on investing in the future of your kids, cannot be overemphasize. You'll be less stressful, less anxious because you got it all covered. What are some investment you think are wise to be made for the future of your kids?
This is something that parents look forward to in my culture. As far as television taught me and cultural books taught me, in most of the developed countries and the western hemisphere, parents and children split away at specific ages and they look after themselves, they earn for themselves and live a life which isn't connected anymore except for the festivals, etc.
In my country, things are always about "Joint families". Parents and children live together for generations to come. In that one, every parent strictly follow the hierarchy to give something to the children.
The type of investment they would do or is prominent for many generations:
1. Real estate (includes, agricultural land, empty plots for construction zones)
2. Commercial Shops/offices (Ever growing demand these days in metropolitan cities)
3. Setting up businesses (from small clothing shops to petroleum )
4. Setting up a huge farming business (includes horticulture, milk business, flower Agri, etc)
All of these and not limited to the above are some of the common ways for parents here to do future investments.
2 Do not go about with large wads of money in your wallet or with you
The first reason is for security purposes. The second reason is so that if you lose your personal items, it will not hurt so bad. Besides who still carries cash when you can make payments digitally. What do think?
It's true. If speaking by the point of saving for longer terms then yes you have to have segregated wallets and if we are talking about the Bitcoin wallets then they will need to have the best security and multiple copies of their private keys and have that extra layer of security.
3 You need a side hustle even if you have a main job
This cannot be over emphasized. There is no job security. Nothing is promised. Learn a skill or turn your interests or that thing you enjoy doing in your spare time to a side hustle. We all need the extra cash.
Right on point! I am doing at least 2-3 side hustles all the time.
I have published my own art, mining rig setup, and some micro-earning sites that I work for. It's definitely worth it.
You are never sure about anything and have to have multiple sources of income. It's no guarantee that all of them will work together, some may give little income, and some may become your support in the bad times. Definitely need to set a line on that front for sure.
4. If you need a motivation for saving, attach a goal to it. This explains itself. Save with a goal or purpose in mind.
What money lessons have you learned so far?
Yep, as long as you have goals you at least keep working for it and keep saving from whatever income sources you have. I have always been keen on my savings and expense management. I write down my expenses all the time and at the same time keep it real when it comes to saving money against my goal on monthly basis.