Who Else Wants To Know The Easiest Ways to Save Money?

With today's uncertain economy, we all need to learn to "pinch our pennies". Saving money can be difficult, but in this article, I will give you six of the easiest ways to save money.

• Lights

Making sure that you and your family turn off the lights each time they leave a room is the easiest way to save money on your electric bill. Your electric bill will go down quite a bit if you do this consistently. This may be difficult to do at first, but once you do it several times it will become habit. One way to remember to do this is to put a note on the door where you will see it when you leave the room.

• Heat

Another easy way to save money is to turn down the heat when you leave for work in the morning and turn it back up when you return home. It will take a little while for your home to heat up, but just wrap up with a blanket until it does. Another way to do this is to have a programmable thermostat installed. This will save you a lot of money in the long run.

• Carpool

Carpooling is one of the easiest ways to save money on gas. If you live close to some of your co-workers, you could set up a carpooling schedule. Not only will this save you gas money, but it will help our environment as well! Even if you don't live close it may be on the way and would work for both of you.

• Meals

One of the easiest ways to save money on food is to eat at home. It is extremely expensive to eat out nowadays. You could buy groceries for at least two or three days worth of meals with the money you spend at a restaurant. Go to restaurants for special occasions only such as a promotion or an Anniversary. You can always make the exact same meals that you eat at those restaurants at home.

• Cable

You can easily save money if you cancel the premium channels that you rarely watch. You will be able to add them back on later if you decide to. You also want to limit pay per view movies. Be sure to put on parental blocks if you have small children. It is easy to get a pay per view movie, and they may accidentally order one.

• Telephone

Consider canceling your land line if your entire family has cell phones. This is an added expense and unless your cell phone is a business phone, you really don't need to have the added expense of the land line. If you can't cancel your land line, check around for the best price. Also look at the features you have and see if you can cancel the ones that you don't use.

Whether you are trying to save money because of the economy or you want to go on a family trip, saving money can be difficult. When you are used to spending your money any way you choose, it is hard to change that. But now you have six of the easiest ways to save money. Good luck!

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Darlyn Burkle of www.I-Choose-Us.com, offers resources to show women how to survive a depression and thrive through the financial crisis. The 52-week Money Saving Toolkit helps women save and earn extra money. It covers practical money saving tips for saving on food, utilities, mortgage, gasoline, entertainment, college education, travel, gift-giving, and more.

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