2025 Already!

                                                                Happy New Year Family!

 How is everybody doing. I can't lie I have fallen off the cheapskate wagon for 2024, But I will get back on it in 2025 for sure. Not much to tell has far as money saving tips and ideas. But I am sure in 2025 I will be giving you new things to think about. What about a new money challenge? Got any ideas? Or how about a declutter challenge since I know a lot of you have stuff to get rid of. What about a vacation challenge since we will need one in the warmer months. You tell me what challenge would you like to do for 2025? 

Just wanted to say have a Happy and Healthy 2025 and I will be speaking to you with some money tips and ideas in the future. Stay Safe and Save that money!

Not Feeling it!

                                                   Hello my Cheap Cheetah Family

Happy Holidays. Hopefully your holidays are going great.  I am sorry to say I'm not feeling it so much this year. I can't wait until 2025 starts. That way money challenges are fresh and goal are starting. Do you have any 2025 goals this year. Mine are to downside I got a lot of junk to get rid of. Also, I need to get my money in order and stop playing lottery spending about $20 a month on something I am not winning. I need to lose at least 20 lbs. for 2025. So that's a goal but I am pushing myself to do it being a cheapskate. No fancy expensive diets or medication. Just the cheap way please.

 As far as gifts here's an idea instead of using the expensive 1800-flowers company. Yes I have used them in the pass. Sue me I was lazy back then. I made up my own gift baskets for the people I wanted to send stuff to. Beside 1800- flowers was going a cost me about $150 bucks so I did it myself cheaper. My baskets aren't as pretty has the vendors form 1800- flowers but the size of the items I sent in my gift packages are much bigger than what you would have got using them 1800- flower. And it cost me less money, did I mention that part.

Hope your spending the time making new money saving plans for 2025 and also ways to make it & have fun with it to. Will be speaking to you in the new year, be Safe Happy & Save that Money!

Disappointment

                                                                    Hello My Family

Happy Holidays, Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Me it was good, but the shopping was disappointing. Have you been into a Walmart lately? Well, it seems for the cheapskates  like me the prices have gone a bit. No more 10 oz coffee their brand for $3.99 now that coffee will cost you around $6 dollars and the size is smaller. Some would say go to family dollar or dollar tree to shop they are good for something, but I like Walmart for other things.

So, for the holidays this being Dec1th and the bills are rolling in along with the paycheck what are your 2025 saving goals. I know your saying it's too early to think about 2025 but is it really? I have already started think about what needs to be done. Like I need to stay on budget something I really can't seem to do, clean out all the junk in my house and try to put more money away by seeing who I can or what I can cut down on. It's a new year my Cheap Cheetah family and we get to start all over again when it comes to saving money. Got any ideas how you plan on doing it. Let me know I might want to join you in the same challenges that you're doing when it comes to Saving, Making and having Fun with money. 

                                    Have a great Cheap Cheetah Day & Save that Money!

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Thanksgiving Already?

                                                         Hello, My Cheap Cheetah Family

Ok, so it's pretty close to Thanksgiving and I have started to look at these $25 dollar thanksgiving meal challenges on youtube. I just seen where Target stores are saying that for $20 dollars you can have a thanksgiving dinner for a family of 4. That's not too bad I say. Also, I think the food part of thanksgiving is overrated. I say spend time with family and have a simple meal like chicken or a pasta dish and just enjoy more family than food. I say this because a lot of families are not able to spend a lot of money on Thanksgiving let alone when it's not Thanksgiving. We should all be grateful that we have our health, family and a simple meal to share with each other on that day or any other day for that matter.

As far as money saving goes for the holiday let's enjoy the holidays and don't think about money to much. Because there's always 2025 to get ready to think of new ideas and ways to save, make and have fun with money. 

  From the Cheap Cheetah That's me have a great Thanksgiving be safe, happy and enjoy! 

Reality Check

                                                                      Hello My Family

 Happy Sunday. Just a quick money tip for you. If you ever need a reality check of what not to do with your money or what to do with it. I would suggest you watch how lotter changed my life on YouTube  and also billionaires who live cheap. I found myself watching programs on YouTube of over spenders and under spenders just to get my thought process back of where and who I want to be when it comes to money.

You know the lotter winners or people who have come into a large sum of money and who has not had any money saving educations go out and spend money on crazy stuff like 4 houses when you only need on 10 cars when you can only drive 1, expensive furniture, trips treating everybody they can think of. It's crazy. like this video.

 Also you have the flip side like this one which I can more relate to. Granted I am not a billionaire but the principles are still the same for whatever amount you have. So, which one would you be if you had the money??

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Watch It!

                                                                    Hello My Family

Like some of you I love my Dollar tree stores. Especially the bigger ones with more inventory to offer. Anyway, I was in dollar tree yesterday and I saw that they had bags of Halloween candy. Me thinking that the bags of candy was $1.25. I thought what a bargain . So, I picked up a few bags. When the cashier rang up $5 dollars for the candy bags. I was surprised. I asked her I thought these were $1.25. Since they were in the dollar store. She told me no. They have a variety of items that are regular price. So why call yourself a dollar store when you have stuff in it higher then $1,25? So just beware that not all dollar tree store stuff cost $1.25

So, it's October what are you doing has far as finding extra ways to save money. I took back two big bags of plastic bottles yesterday and got almost $8 for the trouble. I am donating a lot of stuff to charity for the tax write off and so that I can de -clutter my life. I am looking for holiday vacation deals that offer me free rooms or deeply discounted ones with free food included. So that I can spend some time away on the cheap. That's what I am doing what are you doing to enjoy your life but still maintain your frugal/cheapskate ways?

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Fear!!

                                                                         Hello Family 

Have you ever had that feeling of fear that you just can't shake. I have that feeling right now and it's that I won't have enough money to live on. I have saved all my life since I started working at 14 I saved my money. I have worked two jobs during the course of my work history for 5 years or more. One part-time and one full-time. My part-time jobs I saved the money and lived on my full-time job after I had them take out all the deductions for charity investments, saving. I came on with a low paycheck. Most of the time I had to ask my co- workers what we made because my checks were so little because of my deductions. Which I am glad I did.  Because now seeing my pension check from the city after 20 years of service and bulls**t isn't enough to live on even if it's in small town U.SA.

 My advice to you if you can save what you can and take advantage of all the government services and charities that offer the things you need like food services, medical services, transportation  services etc. If you need it don't be ashamed to use it. Your tax dollars have paid for it so why not see if there are services that would benefit your needs. I have looked into some, but I don't qualify but if I did, I would use them. Nothing like paying for services that you can't use, and we pay for them through our tax dollars. 

    Fear it's a motivator to make us all do better even a cheapskate like me!

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