April is Financial Literacy Month, during which organizations typically conduct a variety of events to promote financial literacy, especially amongst today’s youth. Financial literacy is especially important with the uncertainty of today’s day and age. Tracy Byrnes and I discussed a handful of useful hacks for Financial Literacy on last week’s edition of #TalkandTaste on Instagram Live to discuss some easy financial literacy tips that we all could use this month, and always.

FinancialLIteracyHack1: If you do not know your credit score, go figure out what it is.
FinancialLiteracyHack2: If you have no idea how much you spend, it is time to track your spending. There are tons of apps that you can use on your phone to do this.
FinancialLiteracyHack3: Double down on your emergency fund (have a year’s worth of expenses in case you ever find yourself without an income for the next year).
FinancialLiteracyHack4: Set goals. Ask yourself “what do I need money for, short term, mid-term and long term?”
FinancialLiteracyHack5: Pick the thing that bothers you the most right now and make a plan for it (if you have a lot of debt, find a way to clean up your debt)
 
Again, to watch last week’s edition of #talkandtaste, find it here.

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