10 Reasons Why You Should Save Money

With credit so easy to get, why would anyone want to save money and buy with cash? If you want something, you pull out the plastic and then pay it back with payments over who knows for how long. If you can afford the monthly payments, everyone does that; what's the big deal? The unfortunate thing is that this sort of thinking is making sense to too many people these days.

Here are ten reasons why you should save:

1. Become Financially Independent

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The measuring stick for being rich is different depending on who you talk to. However, the one thing that the notion of “being rich or wealthy” means to most people is having financial independence and savings to depend on. Calling your own shots, financially speaking, means having the freedom to make choices in your life separate from earning a pay cheque.

This may mean being able to take a vacation whenever you want to, leaving work and going back to school to switch careers, starting your own business or investing in someone else