7 Insurance Policies You Can Live Without

Don’t waste money: Find out which insurance policies you can skip with these tips from Savvy Sugar.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry, and insurance policies can sure make you feel well protected. However, buying your peace of mind can be quite expensive, so you want to make sure that you’re spending money on the right insurance policies. Here are insurance policies you should consider forgoing:

Pet Insurance

If you total the medical costs incurred in a pet’s lifetime versus the cost of pet insurance coverage, the policies are often found to be unnecessary, Bob Hunter, the director of insurance at Consumer Federation of America tells SmartMoney. Unlike human insurance, you also have to pay all the costs up front and wait for the providers to reimburse you because there isn’t a co-pay system.

Trip Cancellation

If you can’t make it to a flight because something came up at work or a pre-existing medical condition, you won’t get your money back if you bought a trip cancellation policy. On most of the trip cancellation policies, the reasons that will get you a refund are pretty extreme — you or a family member has to suffer from an illness, injury, death, natural disaster. Unless you invested a lot of money in the trip, you might want to skip this policy.

Divorce or Wedding Insurance

If you’ve been paying for divorce or wedding insurance, you’ll be covered if you have the misfortune of canceling your wedding or getting a divorce. This option isn’t favored by a lot of the people because of the negative image it, and financial planners aren’t fans as well. Glenn Daily, an insurance consultant, tells The Wall Street Journal that a good emergency fund would easily foot the expenses that divorce or wedding insurance would cover and describes it as “insurance you could live without.”

Extended Warranties

Extended warranties on products are generally something you can do without. In fact, you are probably already protected with the manufacturer’s warranty or your credit card company. Consumer Reports found that appliances generally don’t break during their warranty period and if it does break down, the price it takes to repair the product will cost the same as warranty.

To find out the other types of insurance you can do without, head over to Savvy Sugar.