One question you should ask once you start making money no matter how little should be about savings.

Savings is so important to our lives but many of us seem to ignore it perhaps because we don’t know how far savings can go to save us from unforeseen issues.

Your saving habit says a lot about you and if your saving habit is a very poor one, when people talk about the relationship between lack of money and stress, you should be able to relate.

But hey, before it gets to that, you have a saving grace to read this piece and get to know about the three types of savings that can save you from money-related stress.

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1. Emergency Savings

Emergency savings could prevent you from having bad debts.

Have you ever thought of saving because of unexpected issues? This form of saving is a fantastic backup plan. Instead of plunging yourself into debt or selling your properties due to unexpected financial issues such as long-term illness and job loss, emergency savings helps you to take care of these and prevent you from being in debt.