Frugal Living for your Modern Family
We all want more money in our wallets but sometimes if feels like we have cut out as much as we can. Use these tips to see how you can save more money without trying.
You don’t have to sacrifice more of your lifestyle to save more money. Cut out the daily Starbucks run, stop paying for cable, use the library instead of buying books, you know these things already. But you need to save even more.
If you just moved or you are living on your own for the first time, money may be tight. You want to fill your home with gorgeous new furniture but your on a budget. Use this beginner’s guide to buying and selling furniture online to score a great bargain.
You can even earn some extra cash by getting rid of any items you have before the big move.
We recently moved from a 3 bedroom house to a 5 bedroom house. Needless to say, we don’t have enough furniture to fill up every room.
Finding ways to prevent food waste is not only good for the environment but it’s great for your wallet, too! Every time you throw away rotten or spoiled food, you are throwing away money.
Use these tips to help prevent food waste in your home once and for all.
For the next week or two, it’s a good idea to start taking notice of everything you are throwing away. Make a mental note of why you are throwing the food away: did you buy too much? Did you forget about it in the back of the fridge? Did your plans to cook it derail?
Once you can figure out why the food was wasted, you can then find ways to remedy that in the future.
We all know that saving for retirement is extremely important but it can seem difficult to actually follow through. With actionable tips, you should be able to boost your retirement savings no matter what stage of life you are in.
It is always best to start saving for retirement as soon as possible. It may seem so far off that it doesn’t seem so important but you will thank yourself later. Even if all you can sock away is $20 a month, that will continue to grow thanks to interest and/or dividends.
Weddings have become so expensive, not only for the bride and groom but for the guests as well! According to a Bankrate.com survey, the average cost for attending a wedding was anywhere from $400 to over $1,000! I think we all need to know how to save money as a wedding guest.
That range will obviously depend on several factors. Destination versus local wedding. If they are close friends or family compared to a coworker or acquaintance.
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