So here is my funny Mike story. Mike and I play a money game. The idea actually came from The Week magazine and I think you sister actually told us about it {before we were official subscribers, also thanks to you}.
The game goes like this ... every time you receive a $5 bill in the course of buying anything with cash, you have to physically put the $5 bill aside in an envelope and you cannot use it. No exceptions! The premise is that there are less $5 bills in circulation than any other denomination of money. So the odds are in your favor that you're not going to be swamped with $5 bills which would mean less money in your pocket. On the flip side, you then take all these bills that you saved and do something good with them (i.e. put them in your savings account, retirement account, college education account, etc.)
When Mike and I heard about this, we decided to give it a try. We've been doing this now for about 2+ years and I could kick myself for not tracking how much money we've saved. It has to be thousands. We even took it a step further and had a competition between us to see who could save more 5's. He usually wins. As far as what we do with the money, instead of putting it aside, we use it to buy something fun that we otherwise could not justify. Such as new skiis, fancy handbag, etc.
So the other day Mike was heading out of town to a football coaching thing. He stopped at the Wawa for a newspaper and a milk. All he had on him was a $50 bill to pay for $2.50 worth of goods. You guessed it, the cashier handed him $45 in $5 bills! Love it!
What are we saving up for now you might ask? We have our eye on a fancy stainless steel Weber gas grill! We are halfway there but I can already smell the burgers.
Tracy
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