Definitely eating out! I've placed a huge budget on my eating (because I love to eat!), but I've started to focus more on cooking at home and playing with new food creations. It's delicious, healthier, and such a great stress reliever!
Fun. You have to add that in. From treating yourself to a manicure or a movie it's got to be there it can't all be denial. For me it's a movie once a month or so, I grab a great deal on groupon when I can and then off to the movies I go.
In the last year I've given up pedicures, all magazine subscriptions except 'O' and getting my hair dyed professionally. I also let my hair grow longer so I can go longer in between haircuts. Oh, and Netflix dvd's by mail. Don't even miss 'em!
Well, I scraped by in grad school making about half of what I'm making now (and lived on even less while unemployed), so I know I could do it again if I had to. The most flexible parts of my budget are food and entertainment. I could spend less going out with friends and on dates, and I could stop buying the better quality produce, beer, and ice cream at the grocery store. Those are things that I really enjoy and value, though, so I would be sad to give them up. One area I'm really working on is buying lunch less often at the cafeteria next door. The food is quite affordable, convenient, and healthy, but it would probably still be cheaper to make lunch at home more often. I do get a lot of vegetables from my own garden and at cheap farm stands, so at least I'm saving some money there. I could probably also save some money on car insurance if I dug into the policy or called them. I'm commuting by bike now, so maybe I need less coverage.
Definitely! I could live without cable (but not internet because we work from home); eating out could be cut back, as well as clothes purchases. I'm sure there are other more minor things, but those would be the major ones.
How about trying to recycle the actual coffee grounds. Most coffee shops throw their used coffee grounds into plastic garbage bags that end up in landfills that cant breakdown because of the plastic containers. I am trying to get a movement going - first in my city then hopefully further out to get more and more shops to recycle the grounds and leaves. ProjectGreenBean.com.
Interested in knowing if anyone knows how much coffee grounds we throw away. I have heard statistics like 9oz per family per day. I am interested in more the amount of grounds. Thanks.
I can live without Facebook and Twitter! More time reading Wisebread and figuring out how to budget more for my Coffee Addiction that I can not give up.
I could cut some of the junk food purchases out of the food budget. I pretty much have the cable, the cell phone and the internet down to basic only. Frankly, I don't want to give up the cable or the internet. But if push came to shove, those two would go.
There is not a lot of fat in my budget. Don't we all say that? But if a crisis came, I could give up most vacation trips. Airports are so dreadful anyway :-)
How clever to start so young, I wish I had. Keep up the great effort.
Definitely eating out! I've placed a huge budget on my eating (because I love to eat!), but I've started to focus more on cooking at home and playing with new food creations. It's delicious, healthier, and such a great stress reliever!
Fun. You have to add that in. From treating yourself to a manicure or a movie it's got to be there it can't all be denial. For me it's a movie once a month or so, I grab a great deal on groupon when I can and then off to the movies I go.
In the last year I've given up pedicures, all magazine subscriptions except 'O' and getting my hair dyed professionally. I also let my hair grow longer so I can go longer in between haircuts. Oh, and Netflix dvd's by mail. Don't even miss 'em!
Well, I scraped by in grad school making about half of what I'm making now (and lived on even less while unemployed), so I know I could do it again if I had to. The most flexible parts of my budget are food and entertainment. I could spend less going out with friends and on dates, and I could stop buying the better quality produce, beer, and ice cream at the grocery store. Those are things that I really enjoy and value, though, so I would be sad to give them up. One area I'm really working on is buying lunch less often at the cafeteria next door. The food is quite affordable, convenient, and healthy, but it would probably still be cheaper to make lunch at home more often. I do get a lot of vegetables from my own garden and at cheap farm stands, so at least I'm saving some money there. I could probably also save some money on car insurance if I dug into the policy or called them. I'm commuting by bike now, so maybe I need less coverage.
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Definitely! I could live without cable (but not internet because we work from home); eating out could be cut back, as well as clothes purchases. I'm sure there are other more minor things, but those would be the major ones.
How about trying to recycle the actual coffee grounds. Most coffee shops throw their used coffee grounds into plastic garbage bags that end up in landfills that cant breakdown because of the plastic containers. I am trying to get a movement going - first in my city then hopefully further out to get more and more shops to recycle the grounds and leaves. ProjectGreenBean.com.
Interested in knowing if anyone knows how much coffee grounds we throw away. I have heard statistics like 9oz per family per day. I am interested in more the amount of grounds. Thanks.
I need to get a storage unit we are storing stuff in cleaned out. Time to part with the extra things.LisaWilson2011@hotmail.com
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I can live without Facebook and Twitter! More time reading Wisebread and figuring out how to budget more for my Coffee Addiction that I can not give up.
Stop buying lunch at the work cafeteria and start bringing my own lunch instead. It would most likely be healthier as well.
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I can live without manicures and pedicures, but it's so nice to get it once in a good while! One simply needs to be pampered sometimes!
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I could cut some of the junk food purchases out of the food budget. I pretty much have the cable, the cell phone and the internet down to basic only. Frankly, I don't want to give up the cable or the internet. But if push came to shove, those two would go.
I gave up my cable; make my own homemade food cravings, make my own household cleaners and personal items such as toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo etc.
Buying certain groceries, like ice cream....but it is summer and I should use up everything in my pantry.
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I could live without the saving ahead for an emergency fund, but I'd rather not. :) Otherwise, we're trying to be wise about how we spend every penny.
Satellite radio. I'm so over it. Can't convince my husband to dump it on all of the cars yet, though.
There is not a lot of fat in my budget. Don't we all say that? But if a crisis came, I could give up most vacation trips. Airports are so dreadful anyway :-)
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