Our Mazda MPV decided that it didn’t want to start any more the other day. With the car in the driveway, we considered our options.
Get the car towed and repaired.
Move, leave the car in the driveway, and buy a new car at the new house.
While deciding, one of the people in our neighborhood told [...]
Everybody loves a good list. I found this list of 101 Ways to Save a Dollar A Week. A lot of them would save you a lot more than a dollar a week but it is still a very good list of things we probably know but don’t really think about that often.
There [...]
The client I’ve been working for let’s me work from home. I’ve had to go in about once a week at the most but even that is starting to trickle off. My employer sent me an expense check for the mileage the other day and it kind of reminded me how much money [...]
We have a giant glass jar in our bedroom. Every night we throw our loose change in it and hope the kids don’t steal it to put in their piggy banks. We also started putting all the money that was part of the grocery budget but wasn’t actually spent in the jar. [...]
I mentioned yesterday that my savings jar for now is an empty Folgers jar. The Sunday after Thanksgiving, I gave up drinking pop.
Before that I drank 3-5 bottles a day. Most of them were bought at gas stations or convenient stores in the offices where I work. That works out to $3-6 [...]
Saving small amounts of money frequently throughout the year will be important in my quest for $1000. I probably will never save more than $40 at any given time toward this project.
One easy way to save small amounts of money is to throw all of your loose change in a jar. It is easy and [...]
