Ways to curb your spending:
• Re-learn frugal habits.
• Quit using your credit cards!
• Stop eating out at lunch, bring it from home instead.
• Give up happy hour.
• Make a few sacrifices.
• Make sure your car is gas efficient.
• Frozen or processed foods usually cost more than fresh foods or more than you making meals yourself.
• Make sure your home is energy-efficient.
• Don’t over heat or cool your home, especially when you’re not there.
• Do without!
• Don’t buy books you read for entertainment, get them from the library.
• Don’t buy DVD’s or video’s…. rent them instead.
• Forget that expensive cup of coffee.
• Buy good but basic clothing and shoes that won’t go out of style soon and that will last.
• Don’t bounce checks! In addition to the very high fees per bounced check the bank will charge you, you are liable for serious legal problems and are charged additional fees from the person or company you gave the check to! If the money isn’t in the bank… don’t write that check! And remember that now most of the checks we write will clear a bank almost immediately. Once again, if the money isn’t in the bank, don’t write that check!
The Caregivers & Widows Survivors Fund
The Benjamin Pinkston Fishing Club
The Nona Chambers Save the Children Fund
Esther
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Posted By: Esther Pinkston
Sunday, January 10th 2010 at 8:15PM
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