I learned the most about pinching pennies when I was getting my moms house (that she owned outright) out of forclosure for 3.5 years of backed taxes. For a sizeable plot in a nice town, i can't even remember if it was 20 or 16k.... it was a lot. I was a struggleing graphic designer in the most saturated market and was being paid pennies. Get a pad and a pencil. It's time to start making your lists.
-The List of Ways to Make extra Money- (weekend jobs, sell your car and get way cheap car while your paying the piper, even better get a transit car, no gas no insurance no payment, sell other things like on ebay, have a garage sell or post things on craigs list)
-The List of Ways to Stretch the dollar - The is mostly about being a smart consumer. Coupons. In my couponing prime days, if I left the super market spending more that $125 and wasn't getting 100 in free product i was supremely dissapointed in my self. Becoming an excellent meal planner. Honestly I was really proud of myself in those days, I didn't view it as I was so poor or whatever, it was like I was beating the system and getting free stuff.
-Everything that isn't neccesary. Literally. Like weekend fancy dinners. Lunch during the week....fastfood. Cut the cable, but keep the internet and mirror the shows to your tv. Carwashs? Oil Changes? nooo. Do them yourself.
You can do this. Once you get started you gonna be pumped at all the ways you trim the budget fat. You'll be amazed at what you can do.
