{"id":4789,"date":"2012-01-18T08:43:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T08:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2017-06-12T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T14:37:21","slug":"aw-what-a-cute-baby-let-me-put-a-fiver-in-her-college-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/aw-what-a-cute-baby-let-me-put-a-fiver-in-her-college-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Aw what a cute baby – let me put a fiver in her college fund…."},"content":{"rendered":"We all know that aspiration and pretty pictures can make us spend money – otherwise Kate Moss and Vogue would have been out of business years ago, but apparently the same kind of feelgood suggestion can help us save money too.\r\n\r\nBehavioural finance is the buzz word behind the National Employment Savings Trust<\/a> (NEST – geddit?) the new national pension and savings scheme which is designed to make it easier for employees to get their head round the idea of saving when mandatory workplace pensions come in later this year.\r\n\r\nThe theory of behavioural finance, according to Helen Dean of NEST writing\u00a0in today’s Daily Mail\u00a0is that despite our best intentions, a combination of inertia, fear, and good old fashioned instant gratification, means that we all behave like toddlers when it comes to saving for our future.\r\n\r\nRemember those experiments when four year olds were offered one sweetie now, or two if they could be patient and wait for half an hour? Well surprise surprise, those who couldn\u2019t wait and snaffled the sweet straight away turned out, in later life, to be the ones with the one bar fire and cat food while those who had the self-control and sense to wait it out were swanning around the Med on their yachts.\r\n\r\nIt was also discovered that linking saving to positive images, for example having a photograph of your children on your desk or even in the envelope you saved money in, helped people to associate saving money with positive feelings.\r\n\r\nNEST is harnessing those basic instincts, to try to encourage us to save by taking the pain out of delayed gratification and making saving as painless as possible. Tactic number one is to encourage people to save tiny amounts from their salary so that they barely notice it, then as their salary increases, upping the amount. 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