Guide for Young Married Couples on How to Save Money
1. Eliminate most of the extra entertainment costs. You can shut off your cable tv or get a reduced cable tv package that is less expensive. You can get rid of the top of line high speed internet at your house for a less expensive one or eliminate the internet completely.
2. Save your coins. You can save your coins that you have leftover each day. Put the coins into a cup or a piggy bank. Your coins could end up paying for a vacation or perhaps buy more Christmas gifts at the end of the year. Your coins can help you have extra money during times of an emergency or some money for going out to the movies.
3. Save gas money. You can walk to walk or walk to a resturant instead of driving there. You can save quite a bit of money if you don’t drive everywhere. You will have extra money left over at the end of the month.
4. Eliminate Junk Food. Junk food such as soda pop and candy bars are pretty expensive if you buy them on a regular basis. You can save over $700.00 per year for each year that you eliminate junk food. An extra $700.00 per year can earn interest each year. It can also help pay a vacation.
5. Starting a savings account for your family. Did you know that if you can save $60 a month each month for the next 18 years for each of your children that they would have $12960.00 plus interest? It is a large amount of money for your childen to use for college.
6. Sell stuff. You can sell stuff through yard sales and also on Ebay. You can save quite a bit of money if you sell stuff that you don’t need or want anymore. Remember, every penny helps. You can also sell other peoples stuff on ebay to be able to save extra money each month. Just take a commission of every piece of item that you sell on ebay for someone else.
7. Have a budget. Creating a budget each month allows you to see what other area’s that you can save money in. Figure out what stuff you can less spend on each month.
8. Reduce your food bill. Try to buy non brand names of food products. You can buy the less expenisve canned food since it is almost the same thing as the brand names. You can also buy other non food items at the discount stores to save money.
Hopefully, these steps have help informed you with methods to save money. In a short summary to save money just save your coins, get a savings account, have a budget, and reduce your food bill. Most of all eliminate junk food and sell stuff to save money. Good Luck!
