Are you extra
or frugal?
Do you have a savings plan for the long-term or are you just thinking about your next paycheck? Take this quiz to find out your nickname based on your savings personality.
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It’s pay day! Your check is in the bank. Your bills are paid for the month. What’s the first thing on your mind?
Buying a lottery ticket for this weekend’s $50m jackpot.
Making dinner reservations at that hot place everyone keeps talking about.
Going to the library for date night!
#Vacay2021! Our travel savings are starting to add up with those auto-transfers we set up!
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A fortune teller predicts all your dreams will come true. But you need to save for the long-term savings plan. What does that mean to you?
It means definitely hanging onto my comic book collection.
Putting money in the piggy and not touching it for the next 6 months.
Finding new ways to get more rewards points on my credit card.
Building my savings account and thinking about what I want to do the next 5 years and beyond.
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Your future self at age 65 travels in time to visit you. What do they say?
We made it! Thanks for increasing your 401(k) contribution every year. And those IRAs didn’t hurt either.
If you’d packed your lunch every day, we’d almost have an extra $100,000 right now!
There’s no such thing as get-rich-quick. The sooner you start your backup plan, the better. Just sayin’.
All those years of penny pinching helped, but how about something more strategic?
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It’s tax refund time! This year’s a winner. What’re you going to do with the check?
I’m booking that vacation and upgrading to the deluxe room.
Investing in my roommate’s startup.
I’m paying off the rest of my student loan.
Maxing out my 401(k) and putting a little extra into my emergency fund.
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You just got laid off … What’s on your mind?
At least I paid off my credit card last month. I hope there’s enough to get me through.
Mom? Dad?
Scared straight. I don’t know what I’m going to do.
The next 3-6 months are covered thanks to my emergency savings account. Time to up my LinkedIn game!
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Your best friend invites you to their destination wedding in the Caribbean. But you’re sooo close to paying off your student loan. What are you going to do?
Friends are friends. And that’s what credit cards are for.
That’s like a year away. Obviously we’ll figure something out.
Regretfully decline because that is definitely not in the budget.
Start a separate savings account. If I tweak my budget and auto-transfer a % from my paycheck, I can make it work.
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You’re looking for a new apartment to rent. You see the place of your dreams. But it’s $500 more than your budget. What do you do?
That’s a definite no go. No way we can afford that and still meet our budget.
It’s a little more, but whatever. The hot tub is worth it!
Well, if we go without internet and sushi for a year, we might be able to do it.
We can put that on our credit card, right?
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