Savings: $17,500, 10.1 tons CO2
The Richies currently spend $29,200 on goods and services. Their new budget is $11,700. Some things like employer-sponsored health insurance premiums might be difficult to change, but they are balanced out with other things, like entertainment, that are available in infinite quantities for free. Rather than providing a list of one hundred small savings that combine to get under budget, today we're focusing on the big picture. My overall advice is to not buy anything you can live without. Remember, it won't actually make you happier. If you need meet a need, spend some time looking for the simplest multipurpose, durable option. For example prefer a sharp knife over an electric potato peeler. Toward this goal the immediate action is to free your mind from advertisements.
Get rid of cable TV. Seriously. Pay the $9.99 on YouTube Red, Netflix or Hulu if you must watch videos every now and then. That’ll save you from all the burger ads every 15min.
Ditch over-the-air TV and Radio too. When you have an itch for media visit your friendly neighborhood library!
Unsubscribe from useless e-mail lists. Use Unroll.me. Those guys are saints. Clean up your mailbox. Are you getting coupons and other magazines you don’t need sent to your mailbox every week? Use DMAchoice. Save your browser. Use Adblock Plus. You’ll get to surf the web without all those annoying ads.
Adblock Plus is great, but uBlock Origin is better in almost every way. If you like the Chrome browser, the folks behind Brave Browser are attempting to fix the web funding model.
There are some immediate quality-of-life benefits to all of these changes. Webpages will load much faster. You'll spend less time going though junk mail. You'll watch shows in less time than ever.
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