Saving money is in. Americans saved nearly 7% of their income in May 2009.
Here are some successful savings strategies.
1) Automate it. If you don’t see it, you won’t miss it.
2) Use a savings account at another bank. Out of sight, out of mind.
No Spend Month Update Week #2
Update on week 2 of our No Spend Month.
How We Saved $17,000
Previously I talked about gathering all your financial info so you know where you are starting. I call this digging your head out of the sand. 😉 When I started digging my head out of the sand the first thing I did was wrote down everything we spend money on in a typical month, and […]
Motivation To Save Money: Add it Up
One of the biggest changes I have made over the last few months is due to Ramit Sethi’s $1,000 challenge. (link includes all 30 tips) Ramit challenged readers to save $1,000 in one month and shared tips on how to do just that. If you are already pretty frugal, and not a spendthrift like some […]
No Spend Month Update: Final Totals
We’ve reached the end of our 2nd No Spend Month, and I’ve been putting off adding up the final totals knowing the totals weren’t going to be pretty.
We went WAY over where I wanted to be. Clearly the spending diet worked against us this month.
I’ll just get it out of the way, our total spending was $1,764.41. Ouch. Ha, I should call it the Spend Way Too Much Month.
