Earn, Save & Live Smart
If financial fitness starts with making and saving money, Smart Money is about learning how to make those savings grow. Here at The Budget Diet we have full categories and resources on:
Gourmet dog foods are popping up everywhere! There’s a refrigerated dog food case in my grocery, and a Whole Food Pet Market down the street. Nutritionally, these products are great. Affordable? Not so much. In fact, more of these foods cost more than my dinner!
With so many hands reaching into your pockets these days it can be nearly impossible to save money for a rainy day. People on the internet are inundated with ads and the level of sophistication just keeps increasing. The internet has made it a million times easier to spend your hard earned bucks in the … Read more
We try to teach our kids to count their money, and give them weekly allowances, hoping that witnessing the exchange of money for goods will help them learn the value of a dollar, but it can be hard to teach finances to little people who’ve never worked for a paycheck or had to pay bills. … Read more
Most motorists know that they can save money on auto insurance if they maintain a good driving record or bundle their insurance policies. But they often overlook the other ways they can save money. For example, some insurers will give discounts to engaged couples or to farmers. You can also get discounts if you’re a … Read more
When we think about wasting or losing money, we often think about it in larger amounts, like when we get a big hospital bill or when we buy a big ticket electronic item we don’t really need. Losing a few dollars in smaller doses isn’t always considered wasting money because our money isn’t going out … Read more
If you are old enough, you may remember your grandmother reaching into her cupboard and pulling out an envelope filled with cash, selecting a few bills out of it, and sending you to the store for milk and eggs. That rugged generation, who had no access to credit cards, had to rely on their own … Read more
Times are hard. Coming off the back of a global recession is no easy feat and you’d think that after the near collapse of several large financial institutions, we’d have a new found respect for our finances – nope. In a recent survey, Thomson FindLaw found that 61% of Americans don’t have a household budget … Read more
Companies that provide auto insurance are all playing the same game. They’re trying to outmaneuver each other and pick off each other’s clients through a variety of guarantees, pricing and marketing techniques. Luckily for us, all this competition works out to our advantage, even after we’ve purchased auto insurance. Insuring your car is different than … Read more
I’m convinced the winter blahs are a combination of freezing cold weather and credit card bills rolling in from Christmas! If Christmas bills are getting you down, it’s time to come up ways to save for next Christmas! It’s time to try The Budget Diet’s painless penny pinching plan. According to the American Consumer Credit … Read more
Over the years it seems like our culture has gotten nervous. We’re worriers, where everything we buy and everything we do carries with it some level of uncertainty and risk. As a result we do our best to shore up our lives with insurances, policies and guarantees, that give us a comfortable cushion to fall … Read more