20% rule

Here’s an easy way to stay on track and maintain a realistic budget: use something I call “The 20% rule.”

In a nutshell, the 20% rule says that whatever the bottom-line number you come up with in terms of your monthly expenses is, add 20% to it in order to get your “true” monthly bills.

Lynnette Khalfani-Cox

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