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Right now we are tight financially, so about 500 and then 1k in savings. I would rather that be a little higher, but not much because a standard checking or savings isn’t making me money. I do automated transfers each week to a betterment account and a good chunk goes into a cash account that earns about 5% interest, then another chunk goes into an investment fund. Each of those is sitting around 5k right now.
Once we are better off, I’d like to see about 20k in that cash savings with the better interest, 1k in checking and 2k in regular bank savings because it’s more liquid vs having to transfer from the interest account. The investment account will keep growing as we add to it, but at some point when we hit our savings by goal, more will go to investment and it will grow a bit faster.
It’s a lot more than $20 per year, and it’s effortless to have cash on an auto transfer. I can see the growth on the investment fund and adjust the weekly amount that goes in if I see it off track for my goals. We never need to transfer it back because we watch our budget and adjust. The cash fund is basically just my savings account. It doesn’t make sense to me to leave it at my bank savings with almost no interest when I could get 5% compounded instead of ten cents a month.
We try to make sure our money is always making money and not just sitting. It’s just something easy to help keep on top of rising costs.
2k tops as that is around our discretionary “operating” flow each month
$1,500 to $2,000
about 10k, I have everything else in VOO/QQQ and my IRA, as well as 10k recently put into a 5.5% CD. I spend very minimally and save pretty much 50% after tax earnings every month
Yep, I do wish to invest in a few blue chip stocks but I don’t have the time to keep tabs or submit for approvals lol, maybe when I leave this industry I can get back into it
Keep it to a certain percentage of your monthly expenditures. So this answer can vary.
500 in checking, $20k in my high yield money market, rest goes to paying bills/investing
I keep $1,500 a paycheck in it and spend it down over the course of two weeks.
Anything leftover gets put into a savings account and the next paycheck tops up the balance.
10k
Around $5-10k at all times so I don’t have to worry about mortgage days, bills on autopay etc.
2000
Coach
~$10k