"Helpful Tips To Save Money While Enjoying Family Time At Home"

Written by Carlton Bredell on Mar 11, 2009 8:12 pm

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“Helpful Tips To Save Money While Enjoying Family Time At Home”

March 11, 2009 by Successmate

We are all well aware of the state of our economy. Tightening up on expenses will help us stay ahead of the crowd. Check out these “Helpful Tips To Save Money While Enjoying Family Time At Home.” Best of all, we can do it without sacrifing our quality of life.

If you are like most of us, there will be room for improvement in the area of “unneccessary spending.”

1. Start by listing the things that you spend your hard earned money on.

2. Once you’ve got your list together, decide which things are necessary and which things you can afford to cut back on. Be realistic! You know your situation better than I do.

3. Decide to reduce the number of trips that you make in your vehicle. An effective way to do this is by making a list of needed items prior to driving to the market, video store, dry cleaner, etc.

4. Pack a brown bag lunch rather than buying. This can greatly cut down on daily expenses.

5. Plan to make one night a week “Family Movie” night. This is a dedicated night where you sit down to watch a movie together. Make it extra special with popcorn, snacks and beverages. You can enjoy this event while saving the cost of a “movie out.” It will be about 1/10 the cost for a family of 4.

6. Look at other activities that bring the family together like board games. Plan a night to play a favorite that everyone agrees upon.

Hopefully you are getting the picture, but here’s a few more. Best of all, they all include the added bonus of exercise! (But don’t call it that. It may hinder participation).

7. Jumping rope, running, hop scotch, skipping, playing tag, and frisbies are all activities that provide loads of fun.

Stuck inside? . . .

8. Pull out the holla hoop and let’s get busy.

9. This is the BIG ONE! The last, but not the least way to make staying home a more lovable experience is to play video games together. You’ll probably get everyones agreement on this one. It can provide hours of fun and it also includes the bonus of exercise as well depending on what platform you use. This is one tool that we use daily. . . It gets us going every time!

Hopefully these ideas will help beat the high cost of living without lowering your quality of life.

Here’s to your success,

Carl