Talk Thrifty

Spend a little time and monitor your spending. This is a great way to identify areas of savings. There are the well known softwares available to help you do this easily such as Microsoft Money and Quicken, however, in efforts to save money these at their cost can be counter productive. There are alternatives to these more well known programs such as Grisbi and GnuCash, and for anyone using linux I personally recomend KmyMoney. These programs are free to users and available for download. Most of these programs have some way to track your spending by category or payees which can help you to identify areas of overspending. Set up a budget after a month of so of gathering the information on your spending habbits to help you monitor and control your spending. Areas I've always found to look for controling spending are in dining and groceries. You may be surprised how much you spend in these areas. Happy Budjeting!

When going shopping make sure you read the pricing labels for what your buying. Buying in bulk can save you a lot of money but if your not carefull it could cost you more. Shopping with a calculator in hand is a great way to save yourself some money each time you go to the store. Bulk items can be priced higher at times than buying in smaller packages. Why, would that be? I'm not sure all the tactics used but I do know that they have got special marketing departments that specialize in making the company money not you. They prey on those of us that are in the instant gratification and conveniance mode and just go shopping blindly not realizing how much money were simply giving them. So dig out the cob webs in the old noggins math deparment and get thrifty watching labels!

I was sitting in my living room thinking about the economy and began thinking of ways to save money. As I began to think about all the thrifty things I already do to save money it seemed that others may benifit from, it also occured that I could benefit from hearing others ideas. I have several websites dealing with food and recipes and enjoy working on these sites and blogging. So I felt that this would be a great site for me to add to the collection of sites on the web. Content rich information on how to save money and stretch your dollar is what you can expect to gain from being part of this sites community. Thank you for stopping by and paying us a visit (p.s. its free to do so :) )