Three Sites That Help You Save Money

I love the little used book store at my library. For $1.28 I got 12 magazines! The benefits of this are great: 1.) I buy all sorts of different magazines that I would never subscribe to and get to read about all different topics, 2.) buying my library magazines is classified as “reusing” and 3.) when I give them back to the library for someone else to read … I’m “recycling.” 4.) Another huge benefit to my library magazine madness is I save tons of money!

Anyway, the magazine of choice last night was one that I’ve not heard of – Experience Life Magazine. Very interesting and amazing articles about being happy, healthy and living an enriched, authentic life. Love it! I dog-eared half the magazine for pages to return to and wanted to share a few money saving resources I cam across.

Bookswim – This is basically a Netflix concept applied to books. For a monthly fee (there website says $9.95 for the first month) you basically select 3 books at a time to read. They send them right to your door and you return them when done and receive your next must-read favorites. And there are no due dates. This is a pretty interesting concept if you love to read all the new best-sellers right away and don’t like to keep the books you read or mark in them. Best-sellers take a while to get to the library. Personally I love to mark, dog-ear pages and ultimately keep my books. My dream is to have my own library in my house one day — you know the ceiling-high book cases with the sliding ladder.

Freecycle – This is an amazing concept that you must check out. It’s basically like a Craigs List, but everything that you get rid of you are giving away for free. Very cool. I just signed up for my closest neighborhood this morning and can’t wait to dig in and check it out. I always feel good when I give people things and especially if they need something that I’m wanting to get rid of. I wish I had thought of this!

BarterQuest – If you would rather exchange something versus giving it away for free, then check out this site. I was reading a trend report earlier in the week and bartering is making a huge comeback.

I could keep going with all the useful information that I found in this one little magazine, but I’m running out of time. Gotta work you know. Anyway, I wanted to end with a wonderful quote to inspire and set the tone for the day:

“Live simply so that others may simply live.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Peace out.