How to save $3,000 - almost $2,000 saved in 4 months!!

2 weeks since my last blog - and four months into the process of saving $3,000. So far I have saved $1657.20 - and there's been a few things I havent really kept a tab on - so I'll try to catch up on my savings record today!

Savings tip:
#51 - Savings from routinely cutting softdrinks - or buying slabs of cans instead of from takeaway shops  - I think I have saved about $15 a week - so thats $60 over the last month - I kid you not!

#52 - Here's a beauty - Brooke was getting swimming lessons, and due to a whole range of issues she really isnt progressing.  So we will cut those lessons until the summer, and just go swimming with mummy.  No as it turns out my work arrangements get me into a pretty awesome family friendly aquatic centre for nix, and Brooke at 3 costs me $1.60.  Now if I can just wean her off the expectation that going there means a serve of hot chips and a milkshake, I'll be saving $13.40 each and every week.  I usually sign up for a 10 week block, so in the next 10 weeks I'll save $134.00!!  Sweet!

#53 Bakery bipass - still managing to only buy bread 2-3 times a week with no extra lunch box snacks, and I am cooking regularly to replace bread.  I reacon I am still saving about $30 a week, $60 over the last 2 weeks!

#54 - my lovely neice who is training to be a beautician did my eyebrows, I paid a reduced rate saving me about $7, I caught up with my neice, and gave her some experience in dealing with really hairy eyebrows (men go and see her for a full body wax if that's your thing - tell her I sent you :))

#55 - have been missing my bikrum classes due to an injury - every class I miss saves $16, and I've saved 3 over the last week - $48.

So the balance of savings was $1657.20, and this fortnight I saved $309 = $1966.20!!!