The first big news is Joe has consistently taken his lunch just about every day at work. Some days his workplace has a ton of free food and he doesn't even eat what he packed. A completely free lunch day is awesome! He's said he's absolutely noticed the savings from not spending an average of $5-$7 daily (at least) on lunch. He says he's definitely noticed his bank account having a bit more padding lately.
Our electric bill that is due in November is less than $40. Holy SHIT! When I lived alone and barely had anything running I'm not even sure if it was that low. We've replaced all of our bulbs to energy saving ones and make sure they're off when not in use. The biggest change we've made is keeping our computers turned off or unplugged during the day at work and when sleeping. Joe actually sold his desktop and runs solely off his laptop now. I had the bad habit of just always leaving my PC running. Shutting her down has proven to be a good move for the electric bill.
I've also started to receive some of my Freebies. I frequent a few online communities for freebies or samples to sign up for. Slickdeals.net has a pretty nice freebies section. There's also www.reddit.com/r/freebies, which I visit at least once a week. I received a bottle of contact solution and a free poster of the US so far. I'll be honest - sometimes I sign up for something just because it's free. As long as I don't enter my card, bank account or Paypal information I'll sign up for it. Free is hard to come by these days.
We will probably be downgrading our Costco membership from the Executive down to Gold. Doing the math, we seriously doubt we're going to be getting 2% back from enough purchases to even cover the extra $50 we paid and definitely won't be "making" money off of it each year like they advertised. We're a childless couple and we don't eat a lot really. We'll keep our regular Costco membership for a while longer before we decide if we'd like to cancel it all. I bought a coat during our last visit for $60. It's the first good, warm heavy winter coat I've owned since my #150lbweightloss. I've just dressed in layers, bummed other peoples' coats, and tried my luck at thrift stores but I've not found anything of quality. This one seems very nice though, and I think at a regular store for this quality I would have paid well over $100.
As a side note, we will likely be moving our blog over to a WordPress blog soon. We'd like a little more control with our posts and layout. Plus if we add new features we want it to be easy. We're not exactly web designers.
They're the first steps and they are baby steps, but they are steps in right direction and toward becoming #debtfree!
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