How many kids/ people in your family?
Do you think u could alter your lifestyle a bit to save? Like taking your kids to the park rather than a water park. Or down sizing your stuff, and house. Perhaps giving up a car or getting a used or more used car etc.
I'm looking at building again and building smaller sounds interesting. there is a big movement. Off course there r the people living basicly in a home made camper with composting toilets and thats a bit extreme. Buuuttt what about having one bathroom instead of 2?
Hace you considered it?

All leading to financial freedom, more freedom with your time. Etc. I see peers who say they save but I see their groceries and I know I could never afford them. Or have such a big house that they don't have time to clean it and can barely afford it so they are working allthe time. Small seems nice


I do not need to save more money so wouldn't consider downsizing. If something were to happen and I needed to, I would give up outside activities first, certain luxuries, before downsizing

We set ourselves a family budget and we live in that budget. Sometimes our family money decreases and so do our activities.
I think that the real issue here is priorities. Some peoples #1 priority is to save a lot of money, others is to own a bigger house, and for some others it is to be able to go out a lot more. To each their own. The trick is finding your priority and then living the way you need to in order to reach your goal.


My home is 2000 sq. ft., 5 bedrooms/1 bathroom, we currently have 5 people living here but it was just a couple of years ago we had 7 here (2 parents, 5 kids). We already live a "downsized" lifestyle when compared to the average person. We don't go on vacations, we drive old vehicles (my vehicle is a 1999), and we use wood for heating fuel.
I have considered downsizing as the kids leave the house. I'd want a 2 or 3 bedroom/1 1/2 bath home, square footage depends on the layout of the house. Then again, we do plan on combining 2 bedrooms into a family room when those bedrooms are no longer needed...a place for the grandkids to play/watch TV when they come over.



Our home is 14000 2 bedroom/2bath We have 3 people in the home since our kids are all grown we bought this house, Payment is just under 900.00 a month
We save money by not eating out,And when shopping with coupons we take the savings and use that money for Christmas
- heathercm26
on Jul. 23, 2013 at 12:00 AM