Saving Your Spare Change - Continued

The kids would decide to rent one movie between themselves instead of three individual ones and they would place the money not spent in the Beach Fund. They also decided to wave their allowances and have them placed in the Beach Fund.

I always bought brand name items and decided to save the difference between the store brand and the brand name. The savings is phenomenal!! Every once in a while I will find something that will not hold up like the brand name item and I’ll go back go back to the brand name but most of the time it’s hard to find a difference, so why not save that money?

Saving on house expenses is another way we cut back and saved money. We turned the thermostat back just a degree or two, which did not make a big difference in our house temperature, but it did make a big difference in the heating bill. We also started saving money by taking shorter showers, which saved on the water and the electric. We cut back on our talking time when it came to long distance phone calls, which was a savings when we go the phone bill.

Normal pocket change adds up fast, you may not even realize it until you’ve saved it all at once. Before we knew it we had enough money for our trip and plenty of spending money. We now have a continuous Fund that we have for our yearly vacation. We are still practicing many of the money saving ideas, which have proven to be very economical choices.