10 ways to reduce your monthly expenses

  

When Alex moved to Colorado in March, we started to try to cut our monthly expenses. So far, we’ve managed to cut expenses by $1000/month. Here’s a list of the things that we’ve done, plus a couple that I had already done/looked into before he moved in. 

1. Pay off smaller loans

2. Pay off a vehicle

3. Eliminate storage payments

4. Cancel cable/extra channels

5. Switch to a cheaper cell phone plan

6. Minimize rent/mortgage payment

7. Combine car insurance

8. Combine health insurance

9. Take advantage of things that are free/discounted

10. Make a budget

Cutting monthly expenses is a great accomplishment! As my wonderful husband put it, it’s like getting a $(amount of expense reduction X 12) raise this year!

In the following posts, I'll write in detail about how we did each of these things.