How to Set Up a Sinking Fund | Sinking Funds Explained + Tutorial
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A sinking fund can be used for purchases that you don't make regularly. You can save monthly for a purchase that you don't make frequently and have the money ready to go when you need to pay for that expense. I'm doing a walkthrough of my sinking funds and explaining the top 3 categories you can use to set up a sinking fund of your own!
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Fun money is absolutely the best. I started doing it last year and it made my life so much happier.
Yes!! It's more important than people realize!
Yes! I feel the same way. "Fun money" is my guilt free spending 😀
I'm new to this, and this was a great explanation. I have "Technology" as a sinking fund category to save for new computer, phone, etc.
that's a great sinking fund category!
Alliant Credit Union also allows you to have sub accounts within your savings account
Needed a simplified guide to set up sinking funds and this fit the bill, thank you!
I also find it helpful to decide an an annual amount for non-goals as a way to determine what to put to those categories. In general I like seeing things over the course of the year to see percentages and stay mindful of how they impact the bigger picture. Really appreciate your open explainations. 😊
This is a great topic thank you. Also, thank you for just getting straight to the point in the video!
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What I love, straight to the point!
Wow. I’m 51 and I guess my money is a mess. I don’t have debt but I set up an annual budget for these types of annual things. Then I just keep
The whole wad in savings plus adding an extra $340 a month for general savings. When I need to pay something I just transfer money. But I think this system would be helpful for my vacation budget
Great video topic! Perfect breakdown on how to forecast annual expenses and how to save for it!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much for making this video
Great video and the break down. Capital One is great for categorizing your sinking funds.
Thanks! Yeah, I hear really great things about the sinking funds feature with Capital One.
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Thank you for the information! This is my first time watching and I am truly curious what you and your husband do for a living! I wish I could make this much!
We didn't always have a big income, it took a lot of work and goal setting to get to this level of income! My husband is an engineer and I work on Debt Free Millennials full time. Check out my DFM Income Reports playlist if you want more info on freelancing or starting your own business!
@@DebtFreeMillennials thank you so much! Congratulations on your hard work!! It’s extremely inspiring!
Lol after my bills are paid I have about 150 bucks. Thats your clothes budget. You are blessed. Sadly none of this would work for me. Just adding up the annual stuff I realize I have to pay I couldn't set aside because that 150 goes to food and gas. Smh i only owe 5k in credit/student loan and pay little over 200 for debt. All my expenses are monthly requirements so me being "debt free" wouldnt make much of a cushion. I need a new job. Lol this is not just you being debt free. Has alot to do with how much you make, so i think people with very low salaries would benefit learning this from someone that has the same kind of money. thanks for explaining anyway.
When I first started budgeting, I only made $10/hour and I couldn't set up as many sinking funds as I have now so it is a work in progress. I also had the mentality to improve my career, work skills, and push forward for better opportunities. I hope the same works for you so you can continue improving your financial health.
There are loads of low income CZcamsrs, but the concept 8s the same regardless of income
How do you plan for inflation or price changes?
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How do you store all of these funds? In one common savings account or one for each
Oops just saw the answer at the end of the video
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Great video first time watch and subscribing to your channel thank you for the knowledge
Thank you so much this video very informative. I needed this 💕
You are so welcome!
Pay yourself first. A portion of all $$$ you receive is yours and yours alone. Never stop working never stop saving never stop investing the road never ends
What is your monthly take-home income?
Great content! The detailed examples are really useful
Great video
What a helpful video! Thank you ☺️
You're so welcome!
Is this something you recommend doing while becoming debt free, or after you're debt free? I can see how having the extra money for car repairs/registration spread throughout the year rather than at once would be helpful, but is that what you would use the emergency fund for while becoming debt free?
When I was on my debt free journey, I had sinking funds set up but not as many as I have now. I had a sinking fund for all of my car expenses while on my debt free journey which helped me out a ton. I recommend doing your expected expenses first while on your DFJ and then you can add more over time!
Thank you for this video.. question.. Where does Gas go? What about hurricane fund? I'm from San Diego too, but my husband's Army military career dragged me away. I miss San Diego, but not the cost of living there.
Great video 💜
Thank you!!
Hi there! Was doing some sinking funds research and came across this video and i just wanna know: do/did you put the entire bulk of this list's (the $5,534) money into that savings/sinking fund one time, every month? Or did you divide it up into sub-categories/have separate savings for the 3 categories??
How do you keep track of what you have saved for each category?
I have a running totals column inside of my budget spreadsheet that I update each month.
Are you doing this with a bank account? And making separate account.
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ha I did not know there was a difference! Am I holding the pen in a weird way?
Not at all, just different. I really like your channel btw.
Wow I just realized 😂😂
I don't hold pen like this, I hold it at the end of my hand, with 3 fingers
I thought I was the only one noticing that even here it's totally different
Great video! Can you share what you’ve named your buckets in Ally? I like how you’ve separated out the known goals and opened ended goals but Im not sure (for myself) how much is too general or too specific when creating different categories.
The bucket names are the same as what you see in the video although I lumped many of the smaller sinking funds into a larger savings account.
I am starting setting up sinking funds on Capitol One. I am finding such a delay in transfers in and out to take a week or more to happen. To get around that I'm making the purchase on a credit card then wait till the Capitol One transfer is complete to pay that bill off.
I need to write my car maintenance 50 dollars every 2 weeks and idk how much is my registration
Thank you.
Welcome!
What kind of car insurance do you have?! I would love to only pay $62/month. We have two vehicles and a motorcycle and its over $300/month
So do you have a separate savings account for each sinking fund?
I'm pregnant and trying to save for the baby. I want to make sure I can get ready for her when she's here. I'd like to save a set amount up until I give birth.
How did you get such cheap car insurance?
Nice set up 😊
Thanks! 😊
What did you mean at 11:10-11:39? Can you explain further i don’t get it
Yeah so all of that money gets pulled out of our paycheck and gets transferred to a savings account. When I'm ready to spend money from one of those categories, I transfer that money back into my checking account. I do this because I don't want to accidentally spend that money on something else. I also do this because I don't spend money in each of those categories every month. Sometimes I like to save up a few hundred bucks in my apartment decor budget and then spend it on a big item. Does that help at all?
I would love to know what car insurance you use! I’m in California and our is $130 a month. Not really sure how rates work for car insurance. Any tips on lower rates?
Great info
the video was cool
Car registration near Charlotte was $16. I was floored to see the California cost. 😅
How do you save for car maintenance? Sinking funds or monthly budget?
It's also a sinking fund! I try to contribute $100/month and then once it hits $1,000 I stop contributing.
Wow what car insurance company are you with?
Progressive!
Along with the down payment do you include the yearly taxes? If you do, is it 1 year or what maybe if you gave ten years of savings for taxes on the property?
I don’t because the property tax rate is calculated according to location and home value. But I can factor that into my mortgage payment. The standard property tax rate is 1%.
Wow I didn’t realize registration was that expensive, although considering it’s CA makes sense. OK is 80 and I thought that was high lol (my first year paying it myself not my parents).
Aren’t most subscriptions by the month not year?
Hello! Appreciate this video. My question is how to record the use of sinking funds if you are using an Excel spreadsheet. Do you simply record it as income?
Yes! I actually added a line item for "income from sinking funds" and it gets added to the budget.
@@DebtFreeMillennials okay great, thank you! This is really helpful!
@@DebtFreeMillennials sorry, one last question on this. Do you do anything to reduce the amount in the sinking fund? Or do you leave it as is to show that amount had been saved? Example: If I saved $2400 in my sinking fund for vacation and spent $1200 (I show this as income from sinking funds) but do I reduce the sinking fund itself?
My sinking funds are pet emergencys emergency fund and christmas
those are great sinking funds to have in place!
Thank you 💙
You’re welcome 😊
Hi! Thanks for the video, it was super helpful. Is it ok to have a goal category simply for saving up? Or is it better to have a determined purpose? I want to save up but I don't have plans for the future in terms of vacations, buying a house or a car, etc...
I mean I do but not in the near future or with a set value 😬😬
Do you want to build up your investments? Have a bigger emergency fund? I feel like saving for the sake of saving might not be that motivating.
how is this different from a budget? I get the idea that there is forecasting of expenses but I don't think I understand how the 2 interact
You can work sinking funds into your budget! So each line item would be added to your budget along with the monthly amount.
Just set up an extra savings account to throw rent in. Do you think having too many savings accounts is bad? I kinda want to set another one up for sinking funds
Separate the savings accounts if that helps you. I have one for taxes, one for my emergency fund, and one for my house down payment. You may want to look at getting a Simple savings account. You can set up multiple savings goals within that one account and you can separate your money toward the different goals.
You can have as many savings accounts as you can manage. I have quite a few, but I enjoy keeping everything separate and I'm a visual person. However, if you don't want to mess with multiple savings accounts, you could just keep running totals of each sinking fund in your budget spreadsheet.
How is your car insurance that low?
Maxed my liability and my deductible! Look up my car insurance video and it explains everything.
Great video! One thing that struck me is you are calculating insurance, for instance, across a year rather than within a year since you are dividing the payment by 12 months? I use Quicken to do my budgeting but it's for a calendar year so I would have fewer months to save money for a 6-month car insurance payment. My first payment is in February so that is one month of savings. It's not a problem for me but for some it might be a problem.
You must be rich!
You need to get on the Dave Ramsey plan geez you have a lot of expenses.
I'm debt free yo!
too much chit-chat.
I can't believe people require a tutorial for this. It is simple housekeeping 1 0 1. This is why children get pocket money. They learn how to manage their money.
OK she just said they live in the US. Makes sense. Europeans learn this stuff - in Kindergarten.