How Much Money Do You Have?

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Have you ever sat down and figured out how much money you have to freely spend each week or each month? This is a good way to set limits on your spending and see how much free money you have to play with each week or month. Go ahead and deduct all those things you have to spend money on. We all need to pay for our rent or house payments, those car insurance bills, your water and electricity fees, and all the costs like that; we must pay in order to function. Once you have all of those costs factor in, you can then subtract that from your total income earnings. Now some costs are ones we have to pay, but we don’t have to pay as much as we are currently paying. Take gas or food for instance and see how much you spend on those two things each month. We need gas in our cars and food on the table, but the distance we drive our cars and what types of food we eat can make a difference. You can limit your trips in the automobile and this will cut down on your costs at the pump each month. We don’t need to have steak and lobster every night for dinner and can eat sandwiches and can food items from time to time. Saving money in these two areas is easy to do and I bet you can find other ways to save money, if you just sit down and think about it. So take the time now and see exactly how much money you do have.