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The Top 10 Money Saving Tips You Shouldn’t Need to Hear Again Unless You are a Moron.

10.  Clip Coupons. 

Every single article written about saving money will tell you to use coupons, even if the article starts with “this is more than an article about clipping coupons.”. 

9.  Shop Sales. 

Really?  Things are cheaper when they are on sale?  My advice is to stop shopping unless it is for real necessities.  Shopping sales does not mean to buy everything that is discounted at the mall.  When you shop sales you end up with a closet full of crap you never needed in the first place.

8.  Lower Your Heat.

This is a very effective money saving tip for people who live in places such as Florida or
Arizona. 

7.  Carpool to Work.

You’d love to do this, but you don’t have a damn job because the recession has hit home. 

6.  Share a Babysitter.

Sure, because you have all this extra money to go out on the town.  Yeah, you’d share a babysitter, great tip, if you could afford to have children in the first place.

5.  Eat in, Avoid Take-Out Foods.

Take away one of your only pleasures in life?  Deep dish pepperoni pizza?  Chinese Food?  You’ve eaten pasta for the past six months and it isn’t helping, you’re still broke.

4.  Shop in Used Clothing Stores.

Not bad advice if everyone else wasn’t following it already.   A double bonus is if you are on the heavier side.  Larger women who give away their clothes to charity leave their mark before passing them on.  Chub rubbed pants are nothing worth buying second hand.

3.  Sell Your Crap On Ebay.

Well, this works too, and all of the junk you bought at the mall that was on sale, you can sell on Ebay to clean out your closet.  The problem is that you will sell the junk for less than you bought it and then have to package and ship it as well.  Never mind figuring out how to use a paypal account.

2.  Have a Yard Sale.

Your trash is someone else’s treasure, right?  After you spend a whole day having a yard sale you’ll be lucky to collect a few hundred bucks.  Everyone bargains with you and all of your crap is all over your lawn for all of your neighbors to see and snicker at.  A yard sale says, “hey, look at all the crap I was stupid enough to buy, do you want it?”

1.  Go to Your Library.

Last but not least, a tip to go to your library for internet access, books and free DVD movies.  Yeah, sure, I’ll get rid of my internet access and go to the library once in awhile to get online instead where I can’t visit most of the sites I regularly visit because they are blocked.  I’d love to watch Rocky again, the only DVD’s left on the shelf, but I already own all six.

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