Reducing Costs: The Everyday Household Essentials
Key Points Build Continuous Savings: This challenge isn’t just about immediate savings; it’s designed to establish sustainable, mindful spending habits.
November 11, 2024
Day Four: The Passive Penny Challenge
Today's Action
Automate your savings with a monthly savings “subscription”
Key Points
- Start with a Dollar: Start by adding another dollar to your savings—keeping the daily commitment you established on day one of the challenge.
- Free Up Money: Review your subscriptions, cancel or downgrade underutilized subscriptions, and redirect that money into your savings.
- Automate Your Savings: Set up a monthly "savings subscription" to make saving automatic, reliable, and easy to maintain. Start with a recurring monthly deposit of at least $31 to sustain your daily habit and grow your savings over time.
The Passive Penny Savings Challenge
What if saving money could be simple, automatic, and effortless? What if, instead of constantly worrying about how much you can set aside, you build a system that quietly grows your savings in the background—day after day, year after year? That’s the idea behind the Passive Penny Challenge.
Start With a Dollar
As with the previous days, start by setting aside another dollar today. This will be the last dollar you need to manually set aside, as today’s goal is all about setting up an automatic monthly savings “subscription” to handle this step for you moving forward, effortlessly.
Automate Your Savings
In our world today, subscriptions are everywhere, woven into nearly every aspect of daily life. From streaming services to box-of-the-month clubs, software fees, and gym memberships, recurring charges are part of our monthly routines.
The average American household spends around $273 per month on subscriptions and memberships—over three thousand dollars a year. Astonishingly, nearly $25 of this monthly amount goes to subscriptions that are rarely used or even forgotten.
While these services often drain our wallets, many people overlook the potential for using a “subscription” model to build their savings accounts.
Today, that changes.
Review and Optimize Your Subscriptions and Memberships
To start, review all your subscriptions and memberships. Look closely at each one and ask yourself if you’re using it often enough to justify the cost. You may find services that you rarely use, those you’ve forgotten about, or those that can be downgraded or rotated with other options.
The money you free up here will be used to establish your monthly savings subscription. Cancel unnecessary subscriptions, rotate those that you can live without, and downgrade services where possible.
Set-up A Monthly Savings Subscription
After freeing up some extra cash, use the money you saved to set up an automatic monthly transfer to your savings account. Even a modest amount will add up and make a meaningful difference over time.
The goal of today’s challenge is to set up a recurring savings transfer of at least $31 per month—a dollar a day’s worth of commitment—to sustain the daily habit you established on day one. With a high-yield savings account, even small contributions will start to generate passive income through interest, giving your money a chance to grow over time.
As you move forward with your new savings subscription, consider it a routine expense that benefits you directly. Unlike entertainment services or meal deliveries, this subscription serves a long-term goal. The automation makes it easy to grow your savings without requiring daily action, helping you stay consistent over time.
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