Save Money By Substituting for “Must Haves”
credit: Joe Shlabotnik
Try telling someone in their twenties that they shouldn’t spend money on fashion, cars or eating out, and the advice will very likely fall on deaf ears. When retirement is thirty or forty years away, it’s easy to live for the moment and enjoy the “must haves” of young life. But Ginger of Girls Just Wanna Have Funds had some great advice for cheap alternatives to satisfy these desires.
For example, she suggested looking online for clothes, and especially to search some of the stores that offer modern fashion at cheaper prices. Plenty of stores, especially online, offer these kinds of products today, and it’s easy to see the logic of having more variety of clothes for much less money, in exchange for foregoing the too-important brand name tag.
And instead of eating out too often, Ginger suggests alternatives to pricey restaurant bills, such as getting a group of friends together and organizing a “pot luck” evening. If everybody brings their own favorite dish, you can save money, try new foods and probably have a lot more fun at someone’s house compared to having to leave a restaurant once the meal is over. Alternatively, the suggestion is to find a recipe online for your favorite restaurant meal and copy it at home.
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