Money Matters

Not long ago, I started getting frozen juice. Orange juice, apple juice, whatever 100% juice concoctions looks good. It's relatively cheap (especially at Winco) and helps when I need something with flavor.

I enjoy tea myself, but I'm usually accused of having tea with my sugar.

Tea!

I am a huge fan of ice tea without sugar. I am trying to eliminate soda (again) from my diet, so tea is a fantastic alternative. Not to mention, dirt cheap.

I wish i could say that we cut back on our (most specifically me)consumption of soda but we don't. I am a true soda junkie to the max and I think I've got Jarrod on that as well. I know it is not very healthy for either of us but I don't like much else.

Fortunately for us though, is I've become addicted to Orange Juice. Unfortunately for us, it has to be a certain brand of orange juice and its a little pricey. So am I cutting the cost of sodas by drinking more orange juice? I don't think so especially because my son is addicted to orange juice as well.

I've recently become addicted to Odwalla juice... I guess I need to buy a blender or something.

In my household, my wife and I use Netflix to cut down on media costs. We can stream shows and movies online and get one DVD at a time by mail for $10 a month.

I don't need to (and can't afford to) see everything in theaters. We didn't spend a lot on movies to begin with, but it's helped us cut down on theater costs and cut down on the DVDs we buy.

Cell phone plans are another big monthly expense. Everybody needs to ask themselves how much they're paying and why.

We've never had a plan at all. We had a pay-as-you-go phone that we seldom used, and then somebody gave us a free ride on their multi-phone plan. We hardly use that either, and when we do it's just for voice calls.

I'm guessing that saves us something like $70/month.

Get your nose outta your phone, people. Surprise, there's a real world out there.