Lifehacker: 10 ways to save money in a recession
January 28, 2009
Lifehacker’s Kevin Purdy writes on 10 ways to save money in a recession.
3. Trick yourself into spending less, saving more
Curbing spending, like cutting back on calories, is something any self-help-ish expert can and will tell you to do, with few details given. So you’re left, just as with dieting, to come up with your tricks and techniques for teaching yourself to do and not do certain things. When it comes to tricking yourself into saving money, we like the kind that you don’t need much to start out doing, like Merlin Mann’s Crap I Just Don’t Need.txt file, in which he captures all his do-wants and must-haves, as if it were a wish list, but ends up checking it every so often to see just how well he’s gotten along without all those things. High-speed, low-drag spending psychology.
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