Money Saving Stories

We’re a few years into this whole ‘global recession’ thing, and just about everyone I know still seems to be feeling the pinch. With that in mind, I thought maybe we could all help each other out by sharing some stories and tips about saving money. I’ll get us started.

My wife and have been doing all the small things like switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs and keeping our thermostat a few degrees higher in the summer and lower in the winter for a while now. While we knew these things were saving us money, they didn’t really have an obvious effect on our monthly expenses. They lacked the payoff of seeing more money in our pockets. However, when it came time to renew our television, Internet and home phone plans we decided to see if anyone was bundling in our area yet (they weren’t when we initially signed up) and found what we were looking for.

AT&T; had started to offer their U-verse bundles in our neighborhood and we made the switch. We not only ended up saving about $35 a month, but we actually came out with more channels, unlimited calling and faster Internet! While it might not be a huge sum of money, I really can see the effect of an extra $35 each month, and the upgraded services are just an awesome bonus.

So what have you done that saved you a lot of money recently? Let us know in the comments!

Comments

[Eddy]

My wife and I switched to Green Mountain Energy for electricity and started saving a bunch of money at the end of last year. I think our electricity bills dropped about 80 bucks per month.

[Craig]

Last week I switched from Alltel to Sprint. I'm now paying less per month for three phones than I was paying with Alltel for two. Plus, I get unlimited mobile to mobile, data and text, not to mention a sweet android phone.

[Steph]

I did the green mountain switch too a few years back. Saving money and I'm green - can't really beat that.