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What Are Your Financial Goals? MassMutual Can Help With Your Financial Literacy

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This information is brought to you by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. All opinions are my own. 

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This is an exciting year for our family. For the past 11 years we have been renting a house. Every month we have been paying down someone else’s mortgage. We are finally at a place where we are going to be able to buy our own home. We will be able to do anything we want to this house because it will be our house!

Owning a home is a huge financial commitment. You need to be prepared to pay for all the things that come with owning a home. But first you have to make sure you are financially stable enough to go through the home buying process.

What Are Your Financial Goals? MassMutual Can Help With Your Financial Literacy #MMFinancialTips #FinLit

Did you know that this month is Financial Literacy Month? I have been doing some research to help us achieve our long and short term goals and I came across Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. They are there to help us take small steps to better understand our finances so we can secure our financial future and protect those who matter most.

What Are Your Financial Goals? MassMutual Can Help With Your Financial Literacy #MMFinancialTips #FinLit

MassMutual has the resources we need to help us achieve our financial goals. On their website, they have tools and calculators, videos and articles to help increase my financial knowledge. I think this is one area of my life that I can always use some great advice.

Our short term goal is save up enough money for a down payment. The first we need to do is to make a budget. This is a really great way to see where you can cut out unnecessary expenses or show you where you need to be investing more of your money. It may even help you to talk to a financial professional.

Writing out our long and short term goals will help us achieve our goals. I am much more accountable when I actually write it out. I don’t want to strain our budget but I want to be responsible with the money we have.

What Are Your Financial Goals? MassMutual Can Help With Your Financial Literacy #MMFinancialTips #FinLit

My long term goals include planning for my kids to go to college and to save up enough money in our retirement account. MassMutual has a very helpful College Savings Calculator and Retirement Planning Calculator. Their website is a wealth of knowledge with information about life insurance and disability insurance. You are never too young to start considering these options for you future.

What Are Your Financial Goals? MassMutual Can Help With Your Financial Literacy #MMFinancialTips #FinLit What Are Your Financial Goals? MassMutual Can Help With Your Financial Literacy #MMFinancialTips #FinLit

 

During this time it is also a great way to be an example to our children. I want to Help my family be smart about finances, so they can build a strong future. We want to do things like setting up a short-term savings plan. They already receive an allowance, so we want to encouraging them to add to their savings accounts when they have money to spare, from birthdays, allowances or loose change around the house.

What are some tips you are using to increase your financial literacy?

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of MassMutual.

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Stephanie

Saturday 2nd of May 2015

I need to look at our financial planning again. Thanks for the reminder and for sharing.

Naomi

Friday 1st of May 2015

Taking care of financial planning is so important! We're hoping to buy a new house in a couple of years.

Chloe

Friday 1st of May 2015

Thanks so much for sharing! I definitely really need to get our finances in order… We are looking at moving in a few years to the mainland. This away lifestyle is driving us broke. So we are hoping to get money aligned and then being able to rent for a while and finally take out a mortgage. Wish us luck LOL

Lisa Rios

Thursday 30th of April 2015

I agree, taking care of finance and planning it is, so important. This post really helps to keep you on track with your finances. Glad to know that you are making better plans for your financial future.

mburbage

Thursday 30th of April 2015

So important to have a plan! It's not just you, but the kids and so forth. You don't want to wait till the last minute on stuff like this.

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