Do You Really Need 6 Months of Expenses in Your Emergency Fund?
5 min readApr 9, 2019
When I was going through the classes to become a CFP® professional, we learned all kinds of rules of thumb, including the one you’ve probably heard before, which is that everyone needs three to six months of expenses set aside in order to be considered financially “safe.” A lot of people have called B.S. on this, and I can’t argue with the logic, but I agree we all need some type…