Before you optimize investments, credit cards or side hustles, build a small cash buffer. Emergency Fund First explains why the buffer comes first, helps you choose a starter number you will actually hit, and shows where to keep it.

Inside: finding the first few hundred dollars, automating savings without starving the rest of your budget, deciding what counts as an emergency, spending it and refilling it, building a buffer while you also carry debt, growing from a starter buffer to a full fund, and a Q&A.

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