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Pay Yourself First

Pay yourself first is an investor mentality and phrase popular in personal finance and retirement-planning literature that means automatically routing a specified savings contribution from each paycheck at the time it is received. Because the savings contributions are automatically routed from each paycheck to your savings or investment account, you are paying yourself first. In other words, paying yourself before you begin paying your monthly living expenses and making discretionary purchases.

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