If your New Year’s resolution is to Save Your Money, here’s a plan!
Do the math…if you cut your spending by just $11 a day, you’ll save just over $4000 a year! How’s that for a New Year’s resolution!
Let the Budget Diet girl help you count the ways you can cut your spending and save your money! You can save money everyday by eliminating small expenses that really add up! It’s all part of frugal living!
- Kick the Starbucks habit…SAVE $3 per day, $1095 per year!
- Don’t do the drive-thru for breakfast…SAVE $5 per day, $1865 per year!
- Brown bag it to work…SAVE $6 per day, $2190 per year!
- Use The Grocery Game, Inc. to maximize your grocery savings…SAVE at least $50 per week, $2600 per year!
- Eliminate packaged, prepared food from your grocery list…SAVE $20 per week, $1040 per year!
- Eat in, not out for dinner. SAVE $40 per week by cutting just 1 dinner out, $2080 per year!
- Buy discounted gift cards for up to 30% off at Cardpool.com!
. Use these discounted gift cards to save at stores you normally shop. Doesn’t saving 15% at Bed Bath & Beyond sound wonderful plus you can use your 20% off coupon…cha ching, cha ching.
- If you shop online, start with Ebates.com – you’ll find coupon codes and earn cash back on every purchase!
- Slow down! Driving 65 mph uses 15% more gas than 55 mph…that’s like paying 40¢ more per gallon! Suppose you use a tank of gas each week on highway driving, you’ll SAVE $8 per week, $416 per year.
- Avoid excessive car idling! Turn off your engine while your waiting in that carpool line and you’ll save nearly 20%! Better yet…if you’re close enough to school, walk or ride bikes!
- STOP making impulse purchases! SAVE A LOT!
- Take advantage of FREEBIES by checking The Budget Diet’s freebies page everyday!
Some of these money saving tips don’t save big bucks, but The Budget Diet girl’s motto is EVERY LITTLE BIT ADDS UP! If you can incorporate just a few of these tips into your life, you’ll soon find yourself saving $4000 a year! VACATION ANYONE????
I’ve just touched on money saving tips that most of us can take advantage of every week, but if you’re looking for money saving tips in every area of your life, and you’d like to save more than $4000 a year…just click on any of the topics on the left side of this page!
Good luck with your resolution, and remember The Budget Diet girl is here to help you with all your money saving challenges!
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I love these ideas, however, the starbucks and drive thru don’t take into account the $$ you would spend alternatively. If I don’t buy my starbucks and instead brew at home I am spending $$ on buying a coffee pot, creamer, and coffee. If I skip the drive thru, I am eating food from home. Although I’d still be saving, it wouldn’t be as much as listed, unless I’m doing math wrong, which happens.
You’re right, but after the initial investment of the coffee pot – it costs pennies a day to brew a cup. As far as eating in instead of eating out, my husband brings 2 sandwiches, fruit and nuts to work everyday, and we spend less than $10 weekly. Happy New Year and Happy Saving!
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“Stop impulse purchases…” I’m doing so much better at this! Yay!
This is a tough habit to break! Try to make yourself wait at least one day after you see something you think you have to have…after a day if it’s still “calling your name” then go get it!
My favorite is #6. Not only do you save money, but you save unhealthy calories as well! Not to mention, sodium. Many restaurant foods have an entire days worth of recommended sodium in one meal!
We are currently doing many of the things you have listed here to help our son pay for college. We cut cable — a bit drastic for most, I know — but it saves us $60/month, which is $720 for the year. I’m happy to invest that sum in my son and his future over a few TV shows we’ll never remember having watched.
You might want to check out some of the other comments…quite a few people have cut cable, but added Hulu for a fraction of the cost.
Brilliantly simple ideas. Ones I need to get on!
You’ve got so many amazing ideas on how to save a little extra.
The little bits of money quickly add up! Happy Saving!
My hubby would love you for writing this – I have an impulse buying problem especially after not spending for a long time!
Leigh
Maybe just change the places you shop, so when you impulse buy at least it won’t be too expensive! Try thrift shops, garage sales & Craigslist! Once you score that first amazing deal…you’ll be hooked!
Starbucks is a TREAT ONLY place for me–I will cash in for a GC from a point earnings site so OOP is O!!
We almost always eat in-maybe once a month is a dinning out night.
Will check out thoese freeebie sites THANKS!!!!
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Awesome list of ideas– I really have to work on #10— I’m good at everything else but that! I see that saving money is your true talent and what an amazing talent to have 🙂
I never really thought of saving money as a talent until I joined this group!
Great ideas! #8 is the one I need to work on the most, especially with gas prices as high as they are!
It’s amazing how the little things add up over the course of a year. Great tips! 😉
Simple and great ideas! I am going to go swing through the Plastic Jungle after writing this! I never explored that sit before – thanks for the tip!!
Hopefully, you’ll get in the frugal habit of browsing the Plastic Jungle each week! I have a stack of discounted gift cards that I use for stores I frequent like Target! When it’s time for my teenage daughter to go shopping, we always find discounted gift cards for American Eagle, Hollister, Aeropostale & Abercrombie…a teen shoppers delight!
Great ideas! Love it!