By: Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail | March 30, 2010
Read More, and see what Scott Plaskett says about using motivation to maintain your finances.
It’s hard out there for a scrimp.
It’s easy enough to avoid spending money on big-ticket items. For instance, rather than buy a new dryer because the door on mine keeps opening while clothes are tumbling around inside, I just duct tape it shut. Ka-ching. Or I’ll help the budget by not planning a big vacation this year.
But when you track every penny you spend in a week, as I recently did, you realize it’s the small things that wind up costing big money.
“If you don’t get it right with the little things, it’s a lot harder to get it right in every area of your life,” says Crystal Paine, who runs the blog MoneySavingMom.com. A couple of dollars here and a buck or two there can seem too insignificant to notice…
