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Whenever you consistently get paid in excess of the amount you shell out the difference is bliss. If you happen to almost always spend more money than you earn the difference is misery. The difference between what you make and what you pay out is termed net disposable income or net Disposable Income. Earnings needless to say are what you get into your hand when tax and National Insurance contributions as well as other at source deductions such as mandatory pension contributions are excluded. Should you be lucky enough to have other unearned money, such as rental income from a lodger, make sure you add this onto your income to get to your total Disposable Income.

In the first situation your Disposable Income is positive when you have excess cash left over, once you have paid all your living expenses including your priority and repeating bills and made all the contractual payments on your loans, credit cards, store cards and overdrafts. You can put away this excess or you can use it to lessen the balances on your debts further or you can spend it or you can perhaps give it away if you want to. For that reason such a difference is delight!

In the second condition, your Disposable Income is negative. Whilst you might be able to pay your living expenses including your priority and recurring bills you have inadequate cash remaining to come up with even the minimum contractual repayments on your loans, credit cards, store cards and overdrafts. As a result, month after month, the account balances on these debts increase as penalties and late payment charges increase the liabilities still more. Consequently, such a difference is misery.

Just how do you convert such a difference from misery to joy? By earning more? Yes, we all dream that there would be this sort of magic wand. In fact however there are solutions provided that you are prepared to deal with the situation. It’s rather like quitting using tobacco. You must have the desire to sort out the issue. Boosting earnings may be challenging yet sometimes there are opportunities which we pass up. For example, can we take in a paying lodger? Can we change our work shift from say days to nights or weekends? Can we take on a second possibly part-time job?

How about the spending side of things? Do we require a vehicle? Can we get by by using public transportation? Could we trim down socializing, entertaining, smoking, retail therapy or vacations?

Just one way to find out – make a list! Or, rather, make a number of lists. The first list will go on a blank page entitled ‘INCOME’. On this page, we will jot down all sources of income. If wedded or co-habiting the income items ought to include the earnings of our spouse or partner. Let’s label this page ‘HOUSEHOLD INCOME’. Let’s remember housing benefits, child benefits, child maintenance payments coming in, pensions, interest from investments, dividends and tips.

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