Cheap Retirement Living

Indirect Savings

November 5th, 2009 |

Author: perry

Indirect Savings Are The Secret To Saving The Most Cash!

Indirect savings are the monies saved when you either buy something… or don’t buy something! Nobody can save 100% of their income except perhaps the President or a kept woman or ‘toyboy’! We need to spend money every day to live: to buy food, pay rent or mortgage or for utilities such as electricity and water.

While direct savings are the percentage of our income we put aside and don’t spend, this page and linked pages are all about saving money when we do spend it. Buying smarter in other words.

When you are on a fixed income as most retirees are, it is important to wring every cent of value out of each dollar that you can. When that fixed income also has the adjective ‘low’ included then it is even more imperative.

We can save a lot of money each year in many ways. Not buying something. Buying in bulk. Buying at the right time and only when items are on sale. But there is more to it than that. Asking for discounts and making it a habit to do so, every time you part with money and no matter to whom or where.

We need to switch on to how we can save when we spend and a little time and effort applied will reap rewards in the form of money. YOUR money. As the saying goes, it is better in your pocket than his! This is not rocket science but it is important to think before handing over your money.

Do you really need this item? Right now? Think it over for 24 hours and if you really need it tomorrow, then go back and buy it. You will be surprised how few times you actually return! The reality is that for most of us we impulse buy. We buy things we want or like but don’t need. Fine if it is just now and then but sadly we are conditioned to be consumers and we do it habitually.

Let those with the big pay checks keep the wheels of capitalism and industry turning. Cheap retirement living aficionados are not responsible for keeping the global economy afloat. For us it is often a case of plain old economic survival.

People who made it through the Great Depression and the Post-War years know all about tightening belts and getting by on less. They know it can be done and it can be fun doing it, too! We will look at lots of ways of saving money and enjoying the process. It will take some mindshifting but if you approach it as a challenge to meet then you will emerge not only financially better off but I think you will soon prefer living within your means and not beyond it. All the while contributing to the ecology of our planet. Even if you can’t be a part of the solution, don’t be a part of the problem!