http://www.moneycrashers.com/predicting-the-unpredictable-6-unexpected-expenses-and-how-to-prevent-them/ Personal Finance Blog, Your Guide to Financial Fitness Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.moneycrashers.com/predicting-the-unpredictable-6-unexpected-expenses-and-how-to-prevent-them/#comment-10394 Mac Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:46:28 +0000 http://www.moneycrashers.com/predicting-the-unpredictable-6-unexpected-expenses-and-how-to-prevent-them/#comment-10394 Medical costs are a biggy. Who knows what could happen to your or a member of your family in the next year. Hopefully nothing, but that's why we all (well, most) carry health insurance. Even though I do have insurance, I still hope we never have to go because of our sky-high deductibles. So ensuring that we have money in the bank to account for such events is definitely necessary...but fortunately the hospitals usually allow you to pay them back over time. Medical costs are a biggy. Who knows what could happen to your or a member of your family in the next year. Hopefully nothing, but that’s why we all (well, most) carry health insurance. Even though I do have insurance, I still hope we never have to go because of our sky-high deductibles. So ensuring that we have money in the bank to account for such events is definitely necessary…but fortunately the hospitals usually allow you to pay them back over time.

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