Stop wasting money ! Find out how to save on car maintenance.
A budget is the best tool to help you get your finances under control. It allows you to see what is coming in and what is going out. This in turn allows you to think critically about what things are needful and what can be cut out and even expose obvious things that you could save money on.
With a little bit of effort little by little you can get cut off a large portion of your spending opening those funds up to fill whatever gaps may happen such as with unexpected inflation.
Saving On Gas
Perhaps you have heard of sites that tell you who has the best price for gas in town. As it turns out the difference between the highest gas price and the lowest is around $6. Now if you include driving across town you might spend a buck or two to do that in the process.
Now the most expensive price in town right now for gas as of Feb,2010 is $3.09 and the least expensive is $2.58. Say you have a 14 gallon tank that comes to $43.26 for the most expensive and the least is $36.12 and the difference comes to $7.14. In a year that would add up to $171.36 in savings if you fill up twice a month. It seems at first that you would save a lot more than that but this will become more important as we approach $5 a gallon gas. Now lets look at another car bill you can save money on.
Cheap Oil Changes
If you can find the same deal when you get an oil change the difference can be just as much usually $20 or more in savings per oil change. In my city local chains charge around $40. When searching around it turns out there is a dealership in my city charging just $15 saving me $25. The alternative to this perhaps would DIY option which takes time and effort in disposal and clean up.
In past articles the idea of how much you can save per year was not mentioned.
The figures turn out approximately like this:
Money saved using gas prices is about $171.36 a year.
Money saved using oil change prices $80 a year.
Total: $251.36
Not bad!
Surely you can think of tons of other ways to do the same thing on other bills saving you all kinds of money. Be encouraged to know your money can go a lot farther than you might have thought.
I understand you can also Google grocery game. You may have heard about people who go to the store ring up $200 of groceries and only end up actually paying only a few cents!
If any of you have tried that and had it work please let me know. It is good to always be on the look out for new ways to conserve money.
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