Quote

"... from personal experience that when the people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness."
Jodi Picoult - Vanishing Acts

Saturday, June 07, 2008

my frugal plan

After reading whimsy's frugal plan, I'm inspired to think of my new frugal plan as well...
1-Have breakfast at home/bring breakfast from home (amount saved RM2-RM3 daily)
2-Make own coffee at the office
3-Go home at 5 SHARP or after 6 PM to avoid crazy traffic (amount saved, I'm guessing RM3-RM5?)
4-Avoid eating(driving) out on lunch break (despite the lousy food they have in the office cafe)
5-Less gayut/sms on the phone (amount saved RM10-RM30)
6-Switch off lappie(thinkpad) before going to sleep (except when I'm downloading my tv shows). Herda, how about we trade shows?
7-Learn to sleep with the lights OFF (yes, I've been sleeping with the lights ON all these while)
8-Only switch on AC right before going to sleep and/or if it's really hot
9-Only use hot shower for super-early morning shower or super-late shower
10-Plan/have groceries list to avoid going groceries shopping so often
11-Limit (fancy) dining out
12-Limit books purchase, except for super-good books which are worth to add in my books collection. Be best friend with library. I mean how many of us bought RM35 book, read it once, and toss in the bookshelf just to show off our book collections?
13-Find a multipurpose shoes/bag that can be used for everything. No more that formal bag/casual bag/i'm hip bag/big camera bag/escape bag/and the gazillion other handbags we need for many different reasons
14-Avoid unnecessary shopping

3 comments:

whimsical said...

hhahahahahahah good luck to all of us.ur frugal plan are good.love reading ur blog.when i first discovered mythinkpad, i tot this is an org putih blog o.very witty with subtle jokes.keep i up!we need laughter to ceriakan our gloomy days!

Anonymous said...

no 14 - avoid unnecessary shopping... hahaha good luck with that!

uji said...

whimsy: yeaa good luck to all of us! Might be bit hard to let go some of our cost-consuming hobbies ;)

mel: mmmm bit hard to differentiate necessary/unnecessary shopping. Hey, sunblock, moisturizer, all those are necessity right? hahahah...