When the clocks go forward on 26 March, we’ll lose an hour of time. This prompted Lemonade Money to ask people what they would most like to do if they could recoup that hour. The shared top answers were ‘playing with the kids’ and ‘going for a walk’, closely followed by ‘making a cup of tea and reading a book’.
It’s great to see family and traditional pastimes taking top priority, yet there’s still that pressure to connect online; the third most popular response was ‘having a social media fix’ and fourth, ‘going to the gym’. Joint fifth was ‘catching up on emails’ and ‘giving the house a clean’ and sixth, ‘getting my financial future sorted’. ‘Washing the car’ ranked seventh.
Lemonade Money says with everyone so pressured for time, they’re not surprised to find financial planning so low down in priorities. Yet it is something that once sorted, could reduce the amount of time we have to spend working in the future – freeing up those hours to spend time with our families or on ourselves.
Lemonade Money’s financial education website has interactive platforms to help you keep on top of your finances and covers topics such as debt planning/budgeting, saving, buying a new home and protection. Calculators enable you to identify any potential financial shortfalls and there are signposts on how to address them.
And for those who’d like a little more direction, Lemonade Heroes – financial fitness mentors – are on hand to help. For £49 the ‘Hero’ will undertake an initial 30 minute phone consultation, agree financial priorities, draw-up plans, monitor progress and provide support via email for a month.
Lemonade Money believes it is the only financial education tool offering an online service with personalised assistance.
Personally I have a few money issues that I know I need help with. I keep pushing them further down my ‘to do’ list because I really don’t know where to go with them. Since leaving teaching I am not contributing to an occupational pension. Yet I know that I need to continue to plan for my financial future. If I were able to have someone guide me I would want help deciding how to invest my money and how I can safeguard my future. I really enjoy working for myself but I am not naive enough to bank on winning the lottery in the future. I am still young and need to continue to grow my wealth.
Planning your financial future gets more important the older you get. In my 20’s I only worried about having enough for the mortgage and good family holidays. Now I want to have savings and I am fortunate enough to be able to save but I just need educating on where the best place to save is. I often wonder about investing in property or ISA’s as I know sitting in a savings account is not a strategic way to grow my pot.
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As someone who has worked in financial services for almost a decade I can absolutely say that the younger generation are in no rush to do any kind of financial planning for their future. The majority of people doing their finances are those who are usually already settled with kids and a mortgage, or the older generation coming in to review pensions and so on. It’s more important than ever, given the current financial climate, for young people to realise that the sooner they do their financial planning, the better off they’ll be in the future.
An ISA is one of the products offered.
This sounds a realy interesting concept. I also need to think about a pension after leaving my last job and I need some advice on what to do with a lump sum too, Thanks, Mich x
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