Wash your own car If you wash your car once a week at one of those gas station car washes it can cost you $8 on the low end. Wash the car yourself and you get the exercise and the savings. Wash your spouse’s and double the savings. It’s a savings of $416 a year for yourself.
Do you spend $20 a month on taking your clothes to the cleaner? Could you just as easily wash & iron many of your clothes yourself except the thoes with Dry Clean Only tags?
Cutting $20 a month off of the bill will save you $240 a year.
1) ValueTime Coffee Good coffee, that is to say not bad, because we have all had bad coffee. It has a very mild flavor and people wanting a stronger smell and flavor should use a little more. At less than $5 for a 34oz can, it is well worth the $3-$5 savings over other coffees.
2) Muffins from a pouch or box. Martha White, Betty Crocker you name it, all of these are a great way to start your day. Why am I endorsing these en mass? Because all of them are a better idea than buying a bakery muffin. The bakery muffins are larger, but the benefits end there. The muffins you bake yourself from a pouch or box take as much time to prepare 6 as it does to buy one bakery muffin. I baked some muffins from a pouch this evening and it took 16 minutes including baking time. Once you add up standing in line and driving to the bakery it’s easy to see how 10 to 15 minutes could be eaten up. And where do you eat your muffin? Do you sit at your desk and eat it? Wouldn’t it be easier to eat at home? Yes the bakery muffins are bigger, so eat two out of the pouch. My pouch muffins cost around $1.50 and the pouch yields 6 muffins, that’s a quarter a muffin. Compare that to $2.00 or more for one bakery muffin.
I am a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker King Thompson, licensed since 1998. My wife and I own some apartments and some land in the mountains of PA.
Feel free to e-mail a question to me about these properties or another real estate related issue. stevemorbitzer@yahoo.com