Recession Busting Tips: Pt. 2
by COREN BURCH
Filed under Family, Finance, Shopping
1. Pack your lunch. Think about it, if you spend $5.oo a day on just lunch and an average work week is 5 days, that’s $25.00 a week, $100.00 a month! What can you be doing with that money? It’s alright to treat yourself, but it can be expensive doing it every day.
2. Use your leftovers. It makes a great lunch the next day and it saves time, as well as, money.
3. Carpool. If you have someone who works in the same area, rotate carpooling duties. This is a tried and true way of saving on gas and giving your car a break.
4. When shopping, make a shopping list and STICK TO IT! This is a challenging area for me. With two toddlers, I use a lot of my energy just trying to get them in the car! Sometimes it’s hard to avoid impulse shopping (that’s an area I am working on), but preparing before you go to the store can help streamline your purchasing. Go ahead and go thru the sales flyers and have your coupons ready, it makes for a more productive trip.
5. Distinguish between needs and desires. We often justify our “extra” purchases by saying, “I really need this.” But, in fact, it is something you really want. Look at what it takes for you to live. Yes it is alright to enjoy some of the “extras” in life, but in moderation. Furthermore, plan for the extras-entertainment, cosmetics, electronics, etc.,whatever it may be. Look at what you need and what you can realistically afford.
6. TITHE, TITHE, TITHE. “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit,” says the LORD Almighty. “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty.” Malachi 3:8-12 (NIV) We must never neglect our obligation to honor God with the first fruits (10%) of our labor. As believers, there are some bad things that God doesn’t allow to happen, because we are faithful in paying our tithes. It may not all be monetary, but it will be what we need at that time.
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AMEN!!!
You know we’ve got to come up ! LOL