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Turn a Saving into an Object for True Value
Approximate $ Savings: $10 plus a week
Recently, my partner and I suffered from a rough financial patch which forced us to look at our budget and spending habits. I would regularly have a coffee from the daily coffee van and my approach to spending is "it is only $10.00" but oh how wrong was I. What I realised that is $10 here and $10 there adds up. $10 every week for a year is $520. That had me thinking. Now every time we need/want something or a saving could be made that requires a little effort, I take the monetary value and put it against an object value. For example, my extravagant cup of coffee at $3.80 is actually the cost of a box of fifty green tea bags from the shop. That’s forty-nine extra cups of a hot drink. My former thought of “it's just $10.00”, is now that $10.00 is worth a petrol trip to work (as I work an hour outside the city). I usually didn’t bother with finding the cheapest fuel or use the fuel discount voucher, however I realised the $2.00-$3.00 saved every time I fill up, can actually feed me and my partner for dinner. By turning the savings into an object, it points out the former errors of my way and keeps me on the savings track.
Contributed by Ashleigh
Recently, my partner and I suffered from a rough financial patch which forced us to look at our budget and spending habits. I would regularly have a coffee from the daily coffee van and my approach to spending is "it is only $10.00" but oh how wrong was I. What I realised that is $10 here and $10 there adds up. $10 every week for a year is $520. That had me thinking. Now every time we need/want something or a saving could be made that requires a little effort, I take the monetary value and put it against an object value. For example, my extravagant cup of coffee at $3.80 is actually the cost of a box of fifty green tea bags from the shop. That’s forty-nine extra cups of a hot drink. My former thought of “it's just $10.00”, is now that $10.00 is worth a petrol trip to work (as I work an hour outside the city). I usually didn’t bother with finding the cheapest fuel or use the fuel discount voucher, however I realised the $2.00-$3.00 saved every time I fill up, can actually feed me and my partner for dinner. By turning the savings into an object, it points out the former errors of my way and keeps me on the savings track.
Contributed by Ashleigh