Put yourself on a budget by eliminating life's little excesses. Rent a DVD for a couple of bucks instead of forking over the better part of $20 to gaze at a first-run flick while munching on pricey popcorn. Don't buy so many fancy designer outfits. Skip that expensive ski vacation, and check out the local museums instead. Take a brown bag lunch to work, and eat dinner at home. Stifle the urge to be the first one on your block to own a high-definition TV set. Stop smoking. Squirrel away all the money you don't waste on frivolities. You'll be astonished to see how quickly your savings grow.
Where, oh where to begin?
- We already do Netflix and don't have cable.
- Since we arrived in Texas, I believe we have purchased a total of nine movie theater tickets, although one or two movies may be slipping my mind.
- What is a "designer outfit"? Wouldn't it be more realistic to say: "Stop buying clothes except for replacements for worn-out or outgrown items."
- Expensive ski vacation?
- High-definition TV?
- Smoking?
3 comments:
Smoking is needlessly expensive. A can of Copenhagen costs about the same as a pack of smokes. The cigarettes will last you a day if nothing stressful happens and at worst the Copenhagen is good for four days.
MH,
With ground-breaking tips like that, you need to write a book. I'm serious.
Speaking of chew, that was the tobacco of choice among guys where I grew up. It was only years later that I learned that "snus" is actually a Swedish thing. All the time I was growing up, I didn't know that, and I figured it was spelled "snoose."
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