How to Save $16K a Year

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I am sick and tired of reading about rich people that are able to save SOOoooo much money because they finally realize how much their expensive habits are costing them. What about the rest of us that don't eat out 4 times a week or buy lunch every day or a new wardrobe twice a year or get 3 premium cable channels or buy scones and a double latte every day or take a cab everywhere or.....

JimmyDaGeek of MD 2:39PM March 28, 2008

I find this hard to beleive she can save $16K../year. by doing what she is doing now. Must be making more then the average person as they cannot go out and buy that much or they would not have a home to live in. This I totally do not believe.

Fred T of WA 11:16PM March 26, 2008

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