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Saving Money Despite Inflation
I don’t know about you but I for one am tired of owing people money. I’m tired of working my behind off and the day of payday, doling out my hard-earned money to pay off different things. Last year I vowed to make some sort of change.
I loathed living paycheck to paycheck, but didn’t want to try just one thing to get out of my mess. Instead, I tried three different approaches, and each one worked in different ways.
First step was I set a long-term goal for myself. I hate my day job and wish more than anything I didn’t have to do it. For the time being it pays my bills so I can suffer through it as long as there’s some hope at the end of the tunnel. I gave myself a goal of by March 1st, 2024 to have saved enough money to quit my job for at least a year.
Now, a pessimist might look at that and think. yeah, but what happens after that year?
The thing is, I have so many different things I want to do and try out that have the potential to make me some sort of income but currently I don’t have the time to seriously work on them. If I’m able to take a year off, I can. At the end of the year, if I need to, I can always get another job.
With that goal in mind, I had to figure out what steps I would need to take in order to hit that goal. I still owed about $8,000 on my car. Eventually, I would need…