Discover a Simple Yet Powerful Saving Technique from a Money-Smart Woman 💰

Business Insider contributor Bethany McCamish's aunt is super-smart with money. Now, she wants to share her aunt's simple technique for amassing bucks.<br />McCamish admits she approached building her own emergency savings account by trying to save 'whatever was left' at the end of the month.<br />Years of using that technique presented irrefutable evidence: it doesn't work. At all. Ever.<br />Finally, she tried her aunt's technique. She wrote a check to her savings account just like she paid any other bill, no matter what.<br />Her aunt now has a $45,000 emergency fund, a fully funded IRA and ROTH-IRA, a 401(k), and a pension fund. Now 62, she can retire comfortably.<br />Think of yourself as an investment, and this means saving first. Kathy McGlaughlin