99 Things to Save Money in Your Household Budget
If there ever was a time to find creative ways to do more with less, that time is now.
99 Things to Save Money in Your Household Budget shows you how to save money with a new way of thinking and prioritizing. The “doing more with less’’ mentality is easier said than done. Mary Hance (a.k.a. Ms. Cheap) offers simple tips and tactics to help creatively stretch your hard-earned dollars, allowing you to be who you are and do what you enjoy without going beyond your means. Learn how to:
- Have a budget: How to sit down and figure your worth and what you spend.
- Keep in mind that nothing is a bargain if you don’t need it.
- Use a credit card to your fiscal advantage.
- Take advantage of garage sales for home improvement and adding to your wardrobe.
- Go green to save green: How less power usage is good for both the environment and your wallet.
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Book details
- Author
- Mary Hance
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Business & Economics › Personal Finance › Money Management
Business & Economics › Personal Finance › Budgeting - Topics
- personal finance · household budgeting · saving money · frugal living · credit cards · garage sales · home improvement · money management
- ISBN-13
- 9781596525474
About the author
MARY HANCE is a Nashville-based journalist with a 45-year career in print journalism and the author of Ms. Cheap’s Guide to Nashville, Ms. Cheap’s Guide to Getting More for Less and 99 Things to Save Money in Your Household Budget.
Hance studied at the University of the South at Sewanee. Her Ms. Cheap column launched in March 1994 at the Nashville Banner and moved to the Tennessean in 1998; after retiring from the Tennessean in January 2021, she continued writing for Main Street Media of Tennessee.
When she’s not writing, Hance has led her annual Ms. Cheap Penny Drive, which raised more than $1.3 million for Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. That commitment to practical community support runs throughout her work on saving money and stretching household budgets.
Mary lives in Nashville, Tennessee.