Tomorrow marks the beginning of America Saves Week!

What is America Saves Week?

February 19-26 has been set aside ever since 2007 as a time to encourage each other to live on less.  It is also a time to learn how to save your money instead of spending it.

According to AmericaSavesWeek.org:

“The personal savings rate is near zero, most Americans are not saving adequately for retirement, and most lower-income households do not have adequate emergency savings for unexpected expenditures like a car repair.  But with more societal encouragement and support, more Americans will be persuaded to build wealth, not debt.”

There are many ways that everyone can get involved!

For example:

Since buying this house I have shared that we’ve been a bit relaxed in following a budget.  We had started slipping back into old habits of spending.  But since it was only a dollar here and a dollar there it didn’t seem like a big deal, but let me tell you those dollars all add up to a lot of waste!

A couple weeks ago we came to the conclusion that we needed to get back on track if we were going to reach our financial goals for the year.  We have started from the beginning of looking for the areas where we can cut back the fat and save a little more.

NOTE: Some of the best areas are cable, insurances, and phone service.

My husband and I have decided to use this week as the jump start we need and turn it into a challenge to see how little we can live on.

We already have some groceries, toiletries, and water.  I am pretty sure it will be easy to go for a week without buying ANY extras.  But there are a couple things that we will need to spend on such as gas and the emergency coffee from McDonalds to help him drive the hour ride home after working the midnight shift.

We’ll start with a week and if we can go longer we will.  If this is successful we may have to start implementing more spending freeze weeks!

I would love to see us go a whole month only spending on gas!

Thanks to Monroe on a Budget for letting me know this was happening.

I wanted to send out a reminder that this HOT Veggietales DVD sale ends tomorrow!

You can get several different VeggieTales DVD’s for only $5 each!

These DVD’s are regularly priced around $15 which makes this a great time to grab a few to add to your own collection or to give as gifts to others you know would love them too. Spend $30 and you’ll get FREE shipping now through February 19th.

Here are some of the DVD’s:

Plus while you are there you can also preorder the latest VeggieTales movie Robin Good for only $14.99!

You can find even more VeggieTales coupons & deals below!

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