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How to Save Money Every Day
Wouldn’t
it be great to get a little help with your money handling?
Here are a few simply solutions to try.
1. COUPONS – These are not just for food!
Check online, in print media and in your postal and
email boxes for money saving coupons to use with your
next computer, software, bookstore, office supply store
or any store purchase. Enjoy a social life, too. Head
to the fitness center, take your spouse out to eat and
get your pet groomed – all with coupons. Plan ahead
and keep the in a drawer or specially marked container.
Purge monthly or quarterly. Trade with friends, neighbors,
co-workers, church and organization member, colleges
and family.
2.
INCENTIVES – Many credit cards, restaurants,
movie theaters, stores and other places offer incentive
programs. Find one or more that fit into your purchasing
plans and earn things like free air travel miles, movies
and pop corn, gasoline, meals, a percentage back in
the form of a check, gift certificates and more back
in exchange for your participating in their program.
Keep up with the times, too. If your child is grown,
no need to use your Toys-R-Use Visa and get back certificates
for toys any longer. Call the bank and see which other
programs they have, ask your friends which ones they
use, surf the Internet for new offers - and switch.
3.
ALTERNATIVES – Look for alternative solutions
before you spend. Often there are generic packages of
the products you want (items with no brand names) and
there are home remedies and local pharmacists to ask
for alternatives to expensive medications and treatments.
And many places offer discounts for package deals, like
family haircuts instead of individual ones.
4.
ATTITUDE – Don’t focus on what you “don’t
have.” Instead, focus on what you “do have.”
Make lemonade out of those lemons; recycle what you
can, reuse what you can, donate what you can. No need
to have “new” things all the time, or even
part of the time. Be happy with what you have now and
make it work for you! Head to the library for free help
in thousands in books that can show you step by step
how to get exactly what you want.
So
look before you leap to grab your wallet. Take a time
out, sip some tea and plan ahead with coupons, incentive
programs and alternative buying solutions. Make your
money stretch just a little bit farther and give yourself
a raise!
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