Cutting the fat

I know, that last post was about cutting spending, and all that jazz.  We've decided to keep the Internet.  It's going to the the only way we watch TV, communicate with others, and of course blog! LOL

But seriously.  I google "How to save money" and I get "Trim your credit card bill",  "Pay down your debt".  OK, lets be realistic.  1. I'm way too poor to have a credit card.  That is just so hysterically funny to me, that people out there actually think that everyone in the world has a credit card.  Well, they don't.  Some of us have screwed up our credit so bad, that the pens we apply with laugh in our face.  That's right- the pens laugh.   And of course 2, which I have already mentioned bad credit.  I think even if I HAD good enough credit that I wouldn't really get a credit card.  Why?  They are SO inviting.  The whole "I don't have enough money for that, but I REALLY REALLY want it, lets put it on credit" thing...just too temping you know?   Seriously, I can see myself doing it-and I don't like that.   I guess the next thing to do is stop taking showers?  Stop washing my clothes?  Our electric bill is on a levelized program-so it stays the same every month; but around February it "adjusts" and we either owe or get a credit.  I think we've gotten a credit the past few years, which is nice.  Although this year our bill went up.  However, I think that's because of a rate increase. 

I'm going to cut about $40 out of our Verizon bill.  (OMgosh... every time I type the word bill, I want to type Bill, because in my mind the word bill is Bill. sheesh)  That mixed into the $90 a month we are cutting by not renewing our cell phones, is a good amount of money.
 98.42                                 43.43
-54.99                               +90.00
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$43.43                              $133.43

Ok, so that's not a bad load of money to save right off the bat.  Now, just to wittle down everything else.  Oh yeah, I cancelled my WoW account, so add an other $14.99 to the saving's and that's $148.42!  Woot! 

That's enough mind blowing math for one day (simple math-not my forte').  I have to work in the morning, so I'm going to run away, read my scriptures, do my prayers and try to sleep.


Guten nacht; meine damen und herren.