Comments on: Lower Your Budget, Not Your Standards http://inexpensively.com/articles/lower-your-budget-not-your-standards/ Helping you live your life, inexpensively. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:34:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Inexpensively :: Welcome RTV6 Viewers: Date Night, Inexpensively http://inexpensively.com/articles/lower-your-budget-not-your-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-1802 Inexpensively :: Welcome RTV6 Viewers: Date Night, Inexpensively Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:12:01 +0000 http://inexpensively.com/?p=3451#comment-1802 [...] to save on even the most upscale Valentine dates. At Inexpensively, we believe it is possible to lower your budget without lowering your standards. We also teach saving techniques on everyday household expenses, offer tips on finding the hottest [...] [...] to save on even the most upscale Valentine dates. At Inexpensively, we believe it is possible to lower your budget without lowering your standards. We also teach saving techniques on everyday household expenses, offer tips on finding the hottest [...]

]]> By: Inexpensively :: Money Saving Monday: 2010 Financial Goals http://inexpensively.com/articles/lower-your-budget-not-your-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-1435 Inexpensively :: Money Saving Monday: 2010 Financial Goals Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:30:00 +0000 http://inexpensively.com/?p=3451#comment-1435 [...] money in all aspects of your life, so you don’t have to give up your favorite things to change your budget. We’ll launch our New Year, New Budget series this week. Part 1 will focus on your New [...] [...] money in all aspects of your life, so you don’t have to give up your favorite things to change your budget. We’ll launch our New Year, New Budget series this week. Part 1 will focus on your New [...]

]]> By: Abigail http://inexpensively.com/articles/lower-your-budget-not-your-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-1423 Abigail Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:10:27 +0000 http://inexpensively.com/?p=3451#comment-1423 I agree with this piece. I think the key to living well AND living frugally is to find outlets. For my husband and I, that means using reward programs to help find fun money. I've gotten Macy's gift cards so that I can shop -- though lately Tim keeps usurping them. (I never should have married a fellow clothes horse!) Tim gets Game Stop GCs so that he can get new video games from time to time. Also, it's that old adage: Quality over quantity. If you can't have everything you want, pare it down to one or two big priorities that will make the most impact. For example, I am home all day, every day. And I have health conditions that make it hard to leave the house some days. So I am willing to budget for cable. Same with Netflix. On the other hand, we only have cell phones because my mom has to have one for her job (resident manager) and so we piggybacked on her plan. No data, no texting. I agree with this piece. I think the key to living well AND living frugally is to find outlets. For my husband and I, that means using reward programs to help find fun money. I’ve gotten Macy’s gift cards so that I can shop — though lately Tim keeps usurping them. (I never should have married a fellow clothes horse!) Tim gets Game Stop GCs so that he can get new video games from time to time.

Also, it’s that old adage: Quality over quantity. If you can’t have everything you want, pare it down to one or two big priorities that will make the most impact. For example, I am home all day, every day. And I have health conditions that make it hard to leave the house some days. So I am willing to budget for cable. Same with Netflix. On the other hand, we only have cell phones because my mom has to have one for her job (resident manager) and so we piggybacked on her plan. No data, no texting.

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