It's America Saves Week! Let's pause to reflect and plan out your savings goals.
Taking place April 8-12, 2024, America Saves Week is an annual celebration and call to action for everyday Americans to commit to their savings goals. We hope you'll join us this week to pause, reflect, and set your financial goals and create a plan to achieve them!
This year's theme is Saving for What Matters Most. Below, we've broken down the topics for each day, along with some tips to help place you on the path towards building your financial resilience.
Saving Automatically
Managing your daily expenses is stressful enough, so sometimes putting money aside is often the last thing on your mind. Adopting simple habits like setting up recurring automatic transfers can help.
Check out this Digital Academy course for an interactive demonstration on how to set these transactions up!
Saving for the Unexpected
No matter how much we plan and prepare for potential setbacks, the unexpected can always happen. Whether your car breaks down or your roof starts to leak, having an emergency fund on hand can alleviate the stress of those unforeseen costs.
Don't have an emergency stash yet? That's okay! Regardless of how you choose to build your emergency fund, the most important thing is that you start saving. Check out this blog article for more information and tips to get started.
Saving for Major Milestones
Recently engaged and preparing for your upcoming wedding? Looking to move into a new home to accommodate your growing family? Have retirement on the brain? Major life milestones can be exciting yet overwhelming when it comes to the finances of it all.
Our free budgeting tool, Money Management, can help you save for the things that matter most to you. Get a 360-degree view of your finances in a single location, along with personalized insights broken down into different categories such as, budgets, spending, goals, and more.
Paying Down Debt is Saving
Digging yourself out of debt can feel daunting, especially when you’re trying to balance the expenses of everyday life and managing money for the future.
If you're able to add a little more to your payment every month, you can come out ahead over the long haul. That means you end up getting out of debt faster and you end up paying significantly less in overall interest charges. This easy-to-use calculator shows how you can make this happen with one of your loans.
Saving at Any Age
No matter your age, there's always something to save for. And no matter your age, there's a fun way to learn about finances!
Zogo is a gamified financial literacy app that rewards you for completing bite-sized financial literacy lessons. By completing modules, taking interactive quizzes, and participating in daily trivia games, you earn virtual pineapples and work toward real-life rewards — like a gift card to one of your favorite stores.
Looking to explore more of our savings tips for America Saves Week? With a library of interactive demos, blog articles, and webinars, we have the education resources to help you wherever you are on your journey.