1. Read Dave Ramsey. Read “Your Money or Your Life”.
2. Stop spending! You have to really, truly want to do this. Otherwise, you’ll put yourself on a financial diet and then crash and burn and find yourself justifying why you deserve to spend so much money on a new iPhone when you have a perfectly good phone and $20,000 in debt.
3. Make a budget - Purpose every dollar (including some buffer).
4. Look for expenses coming up in the future and plan for them, so you don’t have to go into debt when they come up
5. Keep trying and don’t give up. Make a commitment, and if you aren’t getting out of debt slowly but surely, revisit that commitment. Change is difficult and it takes drastic change in mindset and behaviors to get out of debt. Anyone can do it - as long as you really want to do it.
6. Eliminate. Take a hard look at what’s truly necessary, and be willing to make compromises. Cable TV, satellite radio, and lunches in the office cafeteria are not necessities. If you have a hard time letting go of these things, run your numbers through a debt calculator twice - once with your current budget, and once with additional money currently paying for niceties. You’ll be amazed at how much of a difference those few extra dollars make.
7. Find your purpose. Is it your children, to start your art business, work from home, free money so that you can give? Finding motivation beyond the money drives our passion. Otherwise our drive is limited. This passion will lead us find out the ‘right’ things to do like stop borrowing, creating budget, etc. Take a look at the things you value deeply and view that framework to judge your actions buy.
8. Change how you think of money. Calculate how much money you make (net) per hour. Do this regardless of whether you are a business owner, salaried or hourly employee. Now apply the time factor to any purchase you make. For example, is that 32″ flat screen television you’re thinking of purchasing worth 10, 20 or 30 hours of your time. Once the dollar amount was removed from the equation and the time factor applied, spending habits can change overnight.
9. Balance transfers. By transferring balances on credit cards, you can consistently pay an average of 4%. One thing to look out for is transfer fees: make sure that the fee isn’t greater than the interest you would save.
10. Debt slavery. Realize that (almost any) debt = slavery. If you don’t mind debt, why get out of it?
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–adjective
1. economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful.
2. entailing little expense; requiring few resources
–adjective
1. economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful.
2. entailing little expense; requiring few resources
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$2/$5; $3/$15 - Coupon for $2 off a $5 purchase, $3 off a $15 purchase, etc
Blinkies - Coupon dispensers at grocery/drug stores with the blinking lights
BOGO - Buy One Get One Free
ECB - Extra Care Bucks - CVS "money" printed on receipts to be used like cash in store
IPQ - Internet Printable Coupon
Oop - Out of Pocket - actual cash paid
Peelie - Peelable coupon located on packages
Q - Coupon
RR - Register Reward - Walgreen's "money" printed on receipts to be used like cash in store
WYB - When You Buy...
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