{"id":775,"date":"2012-01-17T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzistrauss.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2012-01-17T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:07:56","slug":"how-i-plan-to-save-money-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2012\/01\/17\/how-i-plan-to-save-money-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Plan to Save Money This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I really need to work on saving some money. \u00a0 I started using a new website to track all of my spending. \u00a0It shows me exactly where all of our money is going. \u00a0I was a little shocked to see how much money we really spend going out to eat or on fast food. \u00a0I&#8217;m setting a budget for everything. \u00a0I know we can&#8217;t cut\u00a0everything\u00a0off cold turkey so I&#8217;m going to have us do a step down method for our spending habits.<\/p>\n<p>Right now we spend about $500 a month of groceries. \u00a0I would like to get that down closer to $300 or less but I know we need to work towards that. \u00a0To start I&#8217;m setting \u00a0a budget of $400 a month or roughly $100 a week on groceries. \u00a0I think we can manage to cut back by $25 a week to start with easily, especially if I really work to use up what we have in our pantry. \u00a0The following month I&#8217;ll move it to $75 a week. \u00a0If we do really well with that I might even be able to move it down a little further but I&#8217;m not going to go crazy.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re taking a closer look at television and cable services along with movie rentals. \u00a0We purchased a few pay per view movies on demand this month. \u00a0This is really silly considering we pay almost $20 a month for Netflix, we just need to send back our current DVD \u00a0to get the next one on our list. \u00a0My husband and I are thinking about turning off our cable television because just about\u00a0everything\u00a0we watch is available online and we do have Netflix. \u00a0We pay about $100 a month for cable so that&#8217;s more money we could save every month.<\/p>\n<p>I know\u00a0groceries and entertainment aren&#8217;t the only way we can save but at least it&#8217;s a start. \u00a0I was able to easily identify these ways to save and will do some digging into other ways to save that I might not be soo obvious to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I really need to work on saving some money. \u00a0 I started using a new website to track all of my spending. \u00a0It shows me exactly where all of our money is going. \u00a0I was a little shocked to see how much money we really spend going out to eat or on fast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2012\/01\/17\/how-i-plan-to-save-money-this-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How I Plan to Save Money This Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,18,20,21,32],"tags":[108,229,294,389,492,528,555],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-and-friends","category-food-and-dining","category-life","category-money-matters","category-movies-and-tv","category-shopping","tag-cable","tag-eating-out","tag-groceries","tag-money","tag-saving","tag-spending","tag-televsion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}