Save Money - Spend Less - Live More

Save Money, Spend Less – Live More!

Credit Crunch, Redundancy, Reduced Income, Higher prices, Rising Debts, Home Repossessions, etc

Greedy Bankers, Big Bonus payouts, Golden Hellos, Golden Goodbyes, Fat Cat Salaries, Big Cars, Fancy Houses, etc

The first group of words describe the vast majority of people in the UK today. The second group describe a much smaller group of people, smug people in my view, who aren’t too affected by the problems the recession of today, are causing, and general opinion is that the second group have caused the problems for the first group by their greedy ways.

I don’t know about you, but I have definitely been affected and am definitely part of the first group, and it’s simply not fair, it’s not moral, it’s not……

But, is there anything we can do about it? About the problem – probably not, we are where we are. But, there is one thing we can do and that is to fight back (not literally) by protecting ourselves from some of the effects. There is a better way to approach things by changing our lifestyles so that we get to keep more of the cash we earn rather than spending all of it, lining the pockets of the ‘corporate unconcerned’. They don’t have to cope with the same stresses and strains the rest of us have to cope with day in day out.

Supermarket chains, Oil companies and the like all make obscene billions of pounds profit each year – ‘at our expense’! Yes they have to make profits, Yes they have to survive, I accept that, but do their profits have to be so big, so huge? ‘at our expense’ (yes I know I’ve repeated myself but I am astounded by the size of these profits) I think not, and I for one have had enough and do not intend to contribute to them anymore that I need to from now on.

My new stance, My new Lifestyle, My new blog starts now, here today. I intend to look for the cheapest, if not freest, way to live. So I’ll be checking out the frugal, the simplistic ways to live, and acquire the things I need to live day to day in places outside the big impersonal supermarkets and hopefully I won't need too much cash either (not that I’m mean you understand!), so I get to keep whatever bit of cash I do have in my pocket and not put it into theirs.

So why not join me on the journey in search of a better way of life, right now?

Until next time:
Before I spend any money I will be asking:

Is this something I really need?
Is this something I will really use?
Is this the cheapest price I can get the product?
Can I afford it?
Will this product add value to my life?