Day 3 of 90 · UNDERSTAND · Week 1: Know Your Numbers
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Know Your Essential Expenses
Separate what keeps your life running from everything else.
About 6 minutes
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Essentials are the costs that keep you housed, fed, insured, transported and employed. They are the floor beneath your financial life.
Essentials are usually fewer than people expect, but larger. Housing, transport and food often account for the majority of them.
Knowing your essential total gives you one of the most useful numbers in personal finance: the true monthly cost of your life.
Do
List your monthly essentials and enter the total below.
Essentials use 0% of take-home income
Think About It
Which essential surprised you most — in size or in how automatic it has become?
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