Saving money is an important part of personal financial
management. The other part of the equation is to keep your spending under
check. With that in mind, there is a way to simplify personal financial
management by following a rule of thumb simply called the 80 - 20 rule.
The rules say to put away 20% of your income and save it somewhere
with the remaining 80% used to pay for necessities and other discretionary
items. It is an uncomplicated way to budget and this puts a portion of
your income into savings.
Paula Pant derived the idea for the 80 - 20 rule from Harvard
bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi. The
mother and daughter team discussed the 50 - 30 - 20 plan in their book “All
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