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unnecessary spending?? Lets all do a project together..
marty22:
we all do it; our unnecessary extras is food out. Not the expensive kind. A fancy luncheonette or Diner if you will. Ive been looking to cut back approx. $1,500- a year on this stuff.
BReady:
Being broke as a joke, I tend to keep my unnecessary spending to a minimum:
I pay 43 dollars a month for internet.... however, I use my Internet for phone and tv (mediaserver in living room TV w/ justin.tv and hulu as my TV enterainment)... so 43 for internet, phone and cable is the way I like to see it.
I pay 93 dollars a month for two cell phone lines and one blackberry plan. There's some uneeded expenses right there. My wife either loses or doesnt charge her phone 9/10 times, so I can cut off her line. The BB plan, is "uneeded" I guess, but this serves two purposes: emergency internet (tethering laptop) is I miss an internet payment and.. I can't do crap with out my blackberry.
Those are LITERALLY the only unnecessary expenses I have. The rest is spent on mortgage, child support, CAR PROBLEMS (which I have a lot of lately), food and utilities. I've gone out to eat about 3 times this summer (2 were at mcdonalds).
It sucks big time, but that's life!
BReady
jamesh75:
Great topic you started here Timmay. I think my biggest unneeded expense would be eating out. My wife and I both work 40 hour/week jobs and have two kids in karate and scouts, plus homework. We just don't have the time to cook, so we do a lot of eating out and carryout. We talk all the time about saving money by not eating out, and we have cut back, but we still eat out way to often. Plus, it's hard to find a healthy meal eating out.
Keep the tips coming, saving money is always a good thing.
SBG Math Guy:
I moved to Ottawa away from my parents for 8 months. I received funding from university but it just wasn't too great. I was left with $271 exact for food. I wanted
to make some profit. >:D Therefore, I cooked at home (on my own) and usually spent somewhere between $90 and $130 for food per month. I tell you sometimes poverty can bring you wisdom. Now that I am back with my parents I spend a lot less on eating out because I'm used to not doing it. I absolutely love eating out (who doesn't :)), but man as Timmay pointed out it costs A LOT.
buddha:
We have a group of friends that we go out for fish fry with usually 2 or 3 times per month. One of the other couples suggested that what we do instead is have a pot luck at one of our houses to replace the fish fry. Normally one would think that a simple fish fry would be about 9 or 10 bucks per person but when you throw in that someone wants a baked potato instead of fries and a couple of rounds of drinks there goes $40-$50 a couple.....oh yeah, I forgot the tip.
I think I'm gonna resurrect the pot luck idea.
I'm gonna sit down with Mrs. Buddha and see what else we can trim.
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