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Feng Shui Your Financial House

Don’t Leave Money on the Table

Put your spare cash to work in a higher-interest-earning account

Mariko O. Gordon, CFA

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If you’re in a hurry, here’s today’s Financial Feng Shui task:

Put your spare cash in a higher interest-bearing account.

Make your money earn its keep.

You don’t want your cash living in your basement, eating cold SpaghettiOs out of the can, and playing video games all day.

Grab a mop and put it to work.

If you love reading my hot takes, here’s the color commentary:

I am a money coach hypocrite.

I don’t have my money shit completely together, which is how I know the struggle to get your financial house in order is real.

There’s dealing with life (broken dishwashers, cars whose interiors should be condemned, loved ones in crisis, the Anthropocene), and then there’s dealing with financial life, which is even less appealing.

One of my money failures is having too much cash in a savings account earning an interest rate…

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