Joyful Cost Cutting Tips
By Donna Schilder, PCC, Life & Business Coach
Cutting Costs on Shopping
- Any Item: Go to Froogle.com (created by Google). Type in any item and it will give you the lowest online price.
- Prescriptions: Get discount drug coupons by going to: InternetDrugCoupons.com or the specific drug company website (just type in the name of the drug).
- Groceries: Have your groceries delivered (Albertsons.com) to avoid high-cost food temptations.
- Travel: Expedia.com
- Greeting Cards: Send electronic greeting cards
Low Cost Dining Tips
- Eat at home, then go out for a drink
- Split a meal
- Hit a happy hour
- Use discount coupons
Low Cost Entertaining
- Have a pot luck party
- Host an appetizer party
- Instigate a chili cook off
- Organize a neighborhood progressive dinner
Low/No-Cost Entertainment
- Play Frisbee at the park
- Take a walk in nature
- Play Crazy Eights
- Visit a museum on Free Friday
- Take a picnic (Perrier, Dove chocolates, salami, cheese, crackers and grapes)
- Pop popcorn and watch a movie at home
- Dust off your bike and take a ride
- Plant some impatiens
- Window shop at Sharper Image
- Go on a photo safari (take pictures as you walk around your neighborhood or in nature)
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© Donna Schilder, PCC, Life & Business Coach of Glacier Point Solutions, Inc., 2007. Dschilder@aol.com (562)434-7822. You are welcome to “reprint” this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the “about the author” information at the end).
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