Kiplinger.com has a brief article showing real examples of how three different families made financial changes to save real and significant money. There are so many ways to save significant amounts of money by just making simple changes. It’s just a matter of everybody sharing ideas and examples of what works for them.
As we previously wrote about here and here, saving money is like giving yourself a raise. We have also noted how a penny saved is much more than a penny earned, because we pay for things with after tax dollars.
Most people don’t think it can be that easy to give yourself a raise during this recession, but it really is. We encourage you to share your money-saving ideas with the community by making a comment below. Anonymity is okay.
See:
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106839/Save-50-a-Day-How-Three-Super-Savers-Do-It
http://moneycafe.com/blog/2009/01/save-an-extra-500-this-year/
http://moneycafe.com/blog/2009/01/save-an-extra-extra-500/