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Do you have just one bank account for all your expenses? If you answered yes to that, things are mostly quite easy for you. You don’t have to remember too many passwords, you can keep an eye on your bank balance easily, and you don’t need to worry about maintaining a minimum balance in multiple bank accounts.
But then, over time, you’ll find that all your minor expenses and your big ticket spends get thrown in the mix, making it extremely hard to keep track of where your money is going. This can get particularly challenging if you use UPI and digital payments a lot.
Right from paying for your daily groceries and your food orders, to spending on minor expenses like accessories, online purchases and more, digital payments may be cluttering your bank statement. This can make it tough to stick to your budget or to save up any major purchases.
If small value digital payments like these are taking up most of your bank statement, it is necessary to separate the two.
Why you need to separate your smaller expenses from the major bank transactions
You may find it easy to manage all your expenses from one account now, but over time, this could definitely get much harder. For this reason and for others, you need to separate your small value digital payments from your big ticket expenses. Here are other reasons to keep these small expenses from cluttering your bank statement.
What can you do to separate your smaller expenses from the bigger spends?
One of the easiest ways to separate your minor expenses from the major ones is to have a separate bank account for the two. In fact, experts recommend having the following types of bank accounts, as a part of the High-5 Banking Method.
1. An account for your essential spends
You can use this bank account to pay for the needs in your daily life. These are the essential spends that keep cropping up in every month’s budget, such as the following expenses —
2.An account for your discretionary spends
This account is for your wants. These are essentially your discretionary expenses, which you can curtail, if needed. Some examples of the expenses you can use this account for include —
This is where Kotak Spendz comes into picture. It enables you to separate your small daily expenses like food orders, fuel, mobile recharge, groceries etc. from your important bank statements. Click here to open Spendz & manage your small expenses smartly.
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3.An account for emergencies
Emergency expenses are certainly not low-value payments. This is why it is essential to have a separate account for building your emergency fund, so you can clearly assess how much you have saved up for contingencies like the following —
4.An account for your investments
You may have different financial goals to fulfil, and each of these goals will require its own distinct investments. For instance, your long-term goals, like building a retirement fund and saving up for your child’s higher education, will need investments with a long-term outlook. On the other hand, you will also have different short-term investments to plan for, such as buying a new phone or gadget, saving up for a vacation next year or saving up for your annual insurance premiums.
Having your bank account cluttered with small expenses can prevent you from figuring out how well-prepared you are for these long-term and short-term goals. So, it is always a good idea to have a separate account for these investments. That way, it becomes much easier to keep track of how far along you are on your investment journey, and how much more you need to invest to achieve your goals.
Conclusion
You need not open all of the bank accounts mentioned above at one go. Instead, you can set a target or a deadline, and open each kind account as and when the timeline calls for it. Alternatively, you can also schedule these bank account openings as and when you need them.
That said, if you’re not comfortable with the idea of having too many bank accounts, you can at least have two accounts — one for your daily spends, and the other to save up for your big purchases or make your major transactions. This way, it becomes much easier to track where your income is going.
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