Make A List to Save Money
If you truely want to save some money each week or each month then you first have to figure out where you are spending it. The simplest way to do it is start an excel spreadsheet and track for any given period what your expenses are. Your gas and car, your groceries, entertainment, misc. daily expenses and anything that occurs on a regular basis. Choose your period such as a month or week. Once you have a couple of periods saved in your excel file you can then start to figure out how you can cut these expenses down and save money. If you are grocery bill is roughly the same over the period of a few months try coupon clipping or buying sale items in bulk and see if you can cut that number down. If you are spending x number of dollars in gas each month try walking a little more and see if you can cut that expense down. The bottom line is that you can't save money if you don't know where you are spending it in the first place.
I kind of had a moment of clarity at the golf course yesterday. You see, we rent golf carts pretty much everytime we play. At least one cart per foursome to carry our clubs. The cost $32 per cart. The golf course sells cart pass books which in the end will give you two or three extra rentals.
I came across this the other day and I thought it might interest you. It's called Kill-A-Watt and is from 
I have a bachelor friend that is constantly complaining about the number of phone soliciters that call him. I suggested that he cancel his line and get a cell phone. When I think about it, my tip was also a good one to save him money. You can get cell phones with services pretty cheap these days. Cell phone companies are fighting for your business. When is the last time your phone company offered you a good deal when your term ended? Never. You have been paying the same amount of money since the day you signed up with them. It's something to think about, unless you are a 14 year old girl that is on the phone for six hours a night you really don't need a lan line. Shop around by looking at flyers, search online and even scour through ebay for a used phone and then find a package. I am sure you will find something that will offer you what you need for less than what you are paying now. 
I have been surfing around the internet looking at lots of different sites and I am seeing threads on forums, blog posts and journal enteries detailing what they are going to spend their stimulus check on. Sure it's free money and a good chace to pick up that LCD TV or that iPod or that top of line Cell Phone. Those that are looking to save some money or get themselves out of debt shouldn't be looking at what they can spend it on but how they can use it to improve their financial situation. If you are sitting with maxed out credit cards, bad debt or house that is in bad need of repair you should rethink how you are going to spend that money. The government Stimulus Check provides a great opportunity to pay down one of those high interest credit cards, get your bad credit back on track or replace some of those old windows or appliances that are killing your heating and hydro bill every month. I know what you are saying, I have to live to and it's nice to enjoy it but that's looking at the small picture. Use it wisely today so that you can enjoy more of those things in future. Having a nice LCD Big Screen TV doesn't do you much good if you can't pay your cable bill.
