This year and soaring Gas prices have caused us to re-evaluate and make some drastic changes to our budget.
The fact that my
Wonderful daughter is graduating this year and has chosen to go to SCAD
a very expensive private school studying Photography
has made us realize we need MORE Money. You know MOOLA, GREEN STUFF!!
Short of trying to work 10 more hours a week and sell 3 more homes a month I decided to do some Budget trimming.
So at the start of the year I started using Mint.com. My goodness have we been shocked over the last 4 months to see exactly where all the money goes. As we have been trying to figure out what we can trim, what is actually wasteful, it has been painfully obvious that way to much MONEY goes into my business. And of course the GAS tank and Groceries.
So that being said I have been on a mission to figure out how to cut these 3 areas of expense.
I have figured out how to trim approximately $400 from my Business. Unfortunately I can not do more because I can not cut back anymore from the Marketing area that helps keep me in contact with more than 1500 people.
We have decide that maybe we can cut $100 a month from the gas for our vehicles by my husband car pooling and me not going into the office 2 days a week ( I live 23 miles from the office). This is with the hopes that gas wont go up to much more!!!
Now for the Groceries and House hold necessities, which led me to this post! My girls have become huge fans of “Extreme Couponing” so I decided to do some research today. I LOVE what I found!!! Blogs and Forums, That lead me to the Coupon Mom. I must say I am impressed. Coupon mom shows you haw to actually save even more money with your coupons by only using them when the store puts it on sale, approximately 4 weeks after the coupon comes out in the paper.
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