There are times when you have to spend money. Most of the time you really cannot get around it; you have to pay the rent, pay for utilities, food, transportation, and the list goes on. What many people try to do when they want to save money is sacrifice conveniences and put a few extra…
With $4 being set as the new standard gas price and a continuously scaling cost of living, finding ways to reduce your driving cost can certainly make a difference to your budget. Sure, there definitely is an option to replace the gas-guzzling vehicles with their eco-friendly counterparts but this still isn’t a financially viable solution…
There are only so many things a person can actively do to save money on their utilities. Turning off the lights when not in a room, turning the heat down a few degrees, taking shorter showers, and the like are all great things to do to save money. In the end, however, if an appliance…
There are so many ways to reduce one’s energy usage it can often be baffling on where to start. Upgrade the windows and doors? Re-do insulation? Have a high efficiency y furnace installed? They are all great ideas, but there is one solution that is much simpler and much cheaper. Replace light bulbs with CFL’s….
One of the primary goals of One Smart Dollar is to help every reader to build their net worth. But net worth grows much slower when money is spent unnecessarily. One way to slow the money going out is to make sure you are saving as much on your utility bills as possible. It is…
Tokyo has long been the most expensive city to live in based upon the Economist Intelligence Unit’s most recent world-wide cost-of-living survey. This year that has changed because Zurich, Switzerland is now number one. I can say from first hand experience that Zurich is an extremely expensive city to visit much less live. A few…