Excellent ideas, Alvaro. Put that $100 in the sock and go from there. It's amazing how fast you can save a lot of money quickly. After a year, you'll have $1200. If you have pocket change, throw it in a vase (mine's crystal that holds about $70-$80. Little stuff like this will take your breath away at how much extra cash you can save. (I learned this trick decades ago while visiting a professor's house. He had a huge glass cylinder in his living room, about a meter high and about 30 centimeters in diameter, that he had filled almost half-way. Can you imagine how much money was in that thing? And to move it??? HA!
Hahaha, I had never thought about throwing coins into some sort of cylinder, but it sounds like the classic piggy bank we've all had at one time or another. The reality is that we are not aware of how many small expenses we have and how we could do to readjust our own finances.
As we say in Spain, all those expenses are leaks. You have to plug the leaks, otherwise you will never get water to the tap.
Excellent ideas, Alvaro. Put that $100 in the sock and go from there. It's amazing how fast you can save a lot of money quickly. After a year, you'll have $1200. If you have pocket change, throw it in a vase (mine's crystal that holds about $70-$80. Little stuff like this will take your breath away at how much extra cash you can save. (I learned this trick decades ago while visiting a professor's house. He had a huge glass cylinder in his living room, about a meter high and about 30 centimeters in diameter, that he had filled almost half-way. Can you imagine how much money was in that thing? And to move it??? HA!
Hahaha, I had never thought about throwing coins into some sort of cylinder, but it sounds like the classic piggy bank we've all had at one time or another. The reality is that we are not aware of how many small expenses we have and how we could do to readjust our own finances.
As we say in Spain, all those expenses are leaks. You have to plug the leaks, otherwise you will never get water to the tap.
Now THAT'S a metaphor I can take home! Plug up the leaks. And yes, there are several that sneak in from absolutely nowhere.