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Originally Posted by **********
It's a simple trick but it works really well.
Regardless of how much money you make, the very first thing you should do with every pay check or commission check, is put some of it into a savings account right away.
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This is really the best advice in this thread. From a very young age when I was getting pocket money, my mum always made me save some of it in our savings tin, it was nothing more than a 30cm tall tin with a hole cut on the lid and taped so that we couldn't open it easily. How much we wanted to save was up to my brother and I each week, sometimes we would save a small amount, other times a bit more. I remember one day we opened it up after about 6 months and to us as young kids, we had a lot of money each in our tins, after that we started to save more because we realized how fast it added up and wanted even more.
It's a lesson that has stuck with me all my life... thanks mum!