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- April 7, 2008 at 3:05 pm #257112
If you cant get rid of monthly bills like cable and internet at least pare it
down to the basics unless you need it for an at home job. I got rid of my phone
bill which cost me around 85 a month for magic jack since I already had cable
internet. My cable is just the basic package without any boxes to keep movie
rentals down. Now I only get movies from the library for free including new
releases.
We are good drivers so our car insurance is only 60 dollars a month with no
extras like towing. I carry a cell phone with my husband as part of a package
and we have the towing auto package for 4.00 dollars a month instead of triple A
since it was cheaper and I have a 97 van and he drives a 72 p/u. We have no car
payments cause I hate them. All our utilities a month are just under 400 and our
mortgage is 925. We might go out to eat twice a month and thats like to
mcdonalds or something cheap to get out of the eating at home rut but mostly eat
at home. My husband works for cargil and we pay for insurance, and retirement
and he has stock options that he contributes to all that they match on.
We freecycle for just about anything and garage sale shop for our two kids
clothing and thrift store shop for their clothing also. My husband fixes
anything that breaks so that helps and works on our vehicles himself. We
homeschool also which saves a ton since we dont have fundraisers and school
whatevers to give for whatever they are doing at the moment. We buy all our meat
from my husbands job since they manufacture turkey and shop mostly at sams but
only stuff that will save us on stuff we mostly use. I try not to step foot into
walmart and if I have to my kids dont come. We shop after christmas for toys for
birthdays and christmas for next year. My kids are definitely not spoiled but
have the finer things because we watch for the deals. we have been blessed
through freecycle which is a great place to get stuff that you need and get rid
of stuff you no longer need too. We have gotten a trampoline with the full
enclosure, big deep freeze, complete twin
bed, and so much more stuff that we were looking for that we didnt have to pay
a cent. It can be done I think of all the money that we wasted before and we
dont have credit cards now at all. Donna
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