Today I Saved

Well,talk about abandonment issues. We’ve moved in to the house, and have been in for about four months now. While we’re not saving for the house any more we’re still looking at ways of reducing costs and trying to save money. Yesterday we received a notice our rates were going up because we had improved the property, I guess that’s what they call building a house at our local council.

I’ve been thinking about this blog and how to use it. As well as going over ways we save money or reduce costs I’m thinking of listing ways I’ve wasted money too, things I’ve bough I shouldn’t or decisions that didn’t work out the way I thought they would that way someone else may benefit from my mistakes.

Hi

I’m Tony and I’m starting this blog to keep track of ways we are saving money. I’m hoping that by writing down how we are trying to save will help with motivation to keep saving and finding new ways to save. Not that we need much motivation : six mouths to feed and rent and mortgage to pay should be sufficient motivation enough.

Why are we renthing and paying mortgage? We’re building our first family home and the progress payments have just started kicking in so for the next six to eight months we’ll be paying rent and increasing amounts of mortgage. Ouch.

Why do we have six mouths to feed (not including cats)? Well, it was just going to be five but unexpected twins made it six.