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I made a ton of financial mistakes in my life especially when i was younger. I find with getting older the awareness of certain risks grows and you learn to not make the same mistakes again. 

One of my mistakes is trusting people to much with money. You can't almost trust anyone in this world with money even not your best friends. I once got scammed by a friend of mine for a very big sum of money, it was basically a confidence scam that he did. I sold a car and never got my money. 

Another bad mistake that i made is leaving to much money on an exchange without 2 factor authentication turned on. Always use 2fa, hard lesson learned for me. Lost 10 000 dollar worth of ethereum when it was still worth 40 usd per ethereum. Could been a few 100k at the peak of the bubble end 2017 if i would not get hacked. 

  ·  6 years ago (edited)

Here are some things that can be financially wrong.

-Have a Balance in a High Amount Account

It's nice to feel when taking money at an ATM and see the remaining amount of money is still a lot. Unfortunately, that is also a sign that your money is not being used properly. Many of us who have salaries which are automatically deposited into the checking account and then idle money just like that in the account, do not get interest. Even though it gets interest, the amount of savings interest is small, sometimes it does not even cover the monthly costs.

-Cut Out Expenses, But Only Small Expenditures

You sometimes feel relieved when you cut expenses. But be careful when you feel calm only after cutting down on small expenses. See Also car payments, insurance fees, or other monthly bills. Try to be supervised again, are these costs in accordance with the initial agreement or deviated?

-First Credit Card Payment with the Biggest Balance

Even though large limits look like high flowers will eat away at your wallet, the cards that you clearly know have high interest rates even though the limit is small it can ultimately give a bigger blow to your salary.

Mistake#1: I Never Knew Where The greater part of My Cash Was Going

At whatever point I took a gander at my financial records adjust, I'd have some thought in my mind of how much cash ought to be left, and there was in every case less there than I anticipated. It appeared cash simply dissipated and I truly didn't have any thought where it went. I'd accept that I more likely than not utilized it for something beneficial that I had disregarded, and in the event that I glanced through the real rundown of withdrawals, it never appeared to be off-base. It just never seemed well and good.

I expected to conquer this misstep since it implied that my spending was actually crazy. I genuinely did not know where the greater part of the cash was going, and that made it difficult to venture back and see where I was committing spending errors. It likewise made it difficult to see where things like wholesale fraud were happening.

How could I settle it? I began keeping a nitty gritty spending log utilizing an old winding bound Mead take journal. At whatever point I spent any cash whatsoever, I recorded that cost in that pocket journal, clarifying precisely what I purchased. I likewise spared each and every receipt that I got.

At that point, each couple of days, I experienced those receipts and recorded them in my own back program of decision (which, at the time, was Microsoft Cash, which is currently dead). After some time, I started to understand reality: I was squandering a ton of cash on little, pointless, totally forgettable things.

Mistake #2: I Didn't Spare Enough for Retirement toward the Beginning of My Profession

Try not to misunderstand me – I saved a bit. The individual I confided in most at the ideal opportunity for profession and life counsel fundamentally requested that I do as such. In any case, rather than taking a gander at it as something extremely helpful for my future, I took a gander at it simply as something to mark off my daily agenda.

I wound up contributing about as meager as I could. My first business offered some pleasant coordinating assets, however I just gathered up a portion of those coordinating assets since I contributed pretty much nothing.

A vastly improved move would have been to contribute a ton to retirement, which is basically what I'm doing well at this point. I wish I had contributed 10% of my salary at least, and maybe as much as 20%. On the off chance that that were the situation, I'd do awesome at the present time. I wound up burning through cash that ought to have been put something aside for retirement on the inept stuff I found with that first misstep.

Truly when you contribute more to a retirement plan, the main thing you really "cut" from your spending are the stupidest and most pointless costs, which aren't generally a lot of a misfortune regarding your personal satisfaction.

mistake 3 : I Didn't Amass a Financial plan Since I thought It Would Be an 'Exercise in futility'

At whatever point the prospect of "money related obligation" entered my thoughts some time ago, I generally thought of the sort of spending plans that we found out about back in my secondary school customer training class. Those were the sorts of spending plans where you had a rundown of classes, you evaluated a number for every classification, at that point you endeavored to coordinate that number. It appeared to be somewhat trite and futile.

At whatever point I pondered planning, I considered that experience and characterized it as an entire exercise in futility. In that, I was correct – that methodology would have been an exercise in futility. It is anything but a decent method to make a financial plan, however.

Rather, I in the long run attempted a significantly more astute approach. I began rather by monitoring my spending throughout multi month or two and utilizing that to construct a financial plan. I arranged the greater part of my spending into sensible classifications, arrived at the midpoint of them out to figure out what a "normal" month resembled for every class, at that point outlined a spending that urged me to take care of the belt a smidgen in the classes I had more control over, similar to nourishment spending.

That, my companions, brought about the ideal result. Not exclusively did it give me a reasonable take a gander at how I was spending my cash, it additionally gave me some delicate direction for how to enhance in the correct territories where it appeared well and good for me to move forward. That is unimaginably helpful direction for anybody.