It's Labor Day weekend! I hope you don't have to "labor" too much. You work hard and deserve some time off. You also deserve to know something my bank didn't tell me.
It's not easy living paycheck to paycheck, but a lot of Americans find themselves either doing that or worse these days. We struggle to make our bills and wonder, how did our parents do it? Are things really that much more expensive now? I don't think so. I think our parents were raised to live a little more frugally than we do.
My daughter has wanted an iPod since Christmas. She's been begging us like crazy! Did I mention she's 7? Well, I wasn't about to go out and spend $200 on a very small toy that I thought she might lose so I told her if she wanted one that she'd have to save her money. Boy, did she ever...
If you are like me, you probably cringe a little bit when you get those insurance bills in the mail. Seems like they're always going up and never going down. Here's another way you might be able to save some money on insurance....
Today on the Breakfast Club we discussed ways to conserve fuel. Petroleum analyist Patrick Dehaan of www.gasbuddy.com had some suggestions. Here we go...
Suggestion #1- You can pay with cash.....Some stations discount up to 10 cents for cash instead of credit.