Feb 23 2009
The Economy
The Economy…..it’s on everyone’s mind, and if it isn’t just turn on your television because that is what everyone is talking about, writing about, and thinking about. Everyone seems to be preparing for the worst…assuming that the worst has not already hit us.
One can only hope at this point that the stimulus package(s) make enough of an improvement so that the economy doesn’t hit the record books like the “dirty 30’s”. I had previously blogged that my State had still been somewhat secluded from the effects of the economy….not so much anymore as we are starting to see the effects as well. Not to the extent that California has — how awful that would be!
However, I still consider us to be the lucky ones. We have had a few more months than most to fully know that this was coming and be prepared. Everyone (unless you are living under a rock) should have been changing their spending habits to pay off debt and save money for an emergency fund. Being a single parent, however, I can tell you that there wasn’t much waste in the budget to begin with so even given that time period there wasn’t a lot of additional funds to be saved. But, I have and will continue to attempt to save a little bit more out of the budget each month (just in case).
On that note, what are some of your saving tricks? What have you learned over the past few months that can help everyone out?
