Originally Posted by
skabone69
I've left myself $100/month for entertainment purposes, and gave myself $160/month for food.
Those seem really low to me. Even with going the cheaper route and buying groceries at the store 160 seems low. 100/month for entertainment is a good goal. You could probably cut it to that pretty easily. I'm not sure what you spend currently on entertainment. I find that when I watch the money it goes alot quicker than I would imagine.
Originally Posted by
ISP James
i found the easiest way to not spend money was to lose my debit card and put myself on a cash budget for the week. i would give myself like 75 bucks per week, that was gas, food, and anything else that came up (out for a beer, ran out of shampoo... etc)
This works really well. I did this for a while and saved a bunch of money also.