With how much has been
written about emergency funds, it's still amazing to see how many people don't have one (or plans to set one up)!
I thought I had written everything I wanted to
write about emergency funds.
Not exact matches
We've
written before
about emergency funds and how to determine what size the
emergency fund should be for your specific situation.
so my question is less
about emergency fund balances as i'm pretty confident they'll grow steadily and more
about, I guess, and please correct me if I'm
wrote, whether or not the 6.9 - 7.9 % average returns for ROTH IRA mutual
funds is a dependable enough guess that it would imply I should put the $ 5500 there instead of toward the 5.5 % mortgage (which I guess is actually lowered when you consider tax writeoff).
I
wrote recently
about how I think having a cash
emergency fund is not a good idea for someone with a mortgage, a HELOC and a high marginal tax rate.
In the past, I have
written about the importance of an
emergency fund many times, and have even given you updates on my progress to save up cash just in case.
(I
wrote a piece
about emergency funds for Grow Magazine, if you want to see more
about defining a true
emergency.)
Grayson has
written before
about the true importance of an... [Read more...]
about 4 Easy Steps to Building an
Emergency Fund
Much has been
written and said
about the good, old
emergency fund.
We have
written numerous times
about how we were able to build up an
emergency fund, and then car repairs usually come to drain the account within weeks of us accumulating a meaningful amount.
In fact, I even
wrote about creating a $ 500 cushion in your checking account with the thought of an
emergency fund (EF) in mind.
-LSB-...] it Wisely
writes about one of my favorite topics Should I pay down my Mortgage vs Save it in an
Emergency Fund.
Even if, like me, you don't find the idea of an
emergency fund particularly interesting from a personal finance perspective, you'll still earn more in a high - interest checking account than you will in a fixed - income mutual
fund, a subject I've
written about elsewhere.