Manage My Budget

When a person or something is in your way or putting their straight arm onto your chest, what do you do? Try to go around or do a work-around, right? If not, you stand in place or worse, you get knocked down.

We’ve read or seen the latest news. Those on the inside of the American Dream have turned it into a nightmare for the rest of us, setting up road blocks against us. There’s too much momentum put in play for you or I or any one individual to turn it around, let alone to stop it.

As David Brooks ‘ column in The N.Y. Times put it on July 11th, “There is no Magic Lever.” Which means, there exists not just one remedy for what ails America. The difficulty is too complex and the adequate solution is too complicated for America’s politicians to accomplish.

It nets down to how one resolves to manage money and manage one’s life.

This goes past merely finding ways to save money or to plan cheap meals or do discount shopping.

If one morning you look at yourself in the mirror and you realize only the already rich can avoid the agony of what’s here now and the crippling events coming to devastate the America we know. Are you thinking only they can choose their destiny? Then take some heart, faith and comfort in the following.

As my father declared whenever facing long odds of adversity, “There’s always another way.” And, you know what, there always was another way.

Just stop for a moment take in a full breath then let it out slowly. Once again.

Now, let’s discuss some sane alternatives to living the American Dream, just not living it in the good old “U.S. Of A.” These other places exist.

These other places are practical, tranquil, and productive. These could be the alternatives you are looking for but didn’t know about, but your family deserve.

America’s reach has broadened across the planet since the end of The Last World War. With all due respect to our elders, that’s a very long time back. It is very likely now that English is spoken “there.”

Unless you have already lived in a few different foreign states, like I have, you are likely to be a little loath to look or to move. That is only natural. However if the ship has struck an iceberg, at some point you make a choice for or against going down with it.

Check out these options from the comfort of your home desktop computer, in confidence if you like, using a popular but private search engine: ixquick.com. It keeps no memory of who looked at what or studied whatever (unlike any of the other large search engines).

Remember this: Making no decision becomes a call in and of itself. If for any reason you continue to come to a decision to stay within the borders of America, then you will be increasingly forced to deal with what’s coming at you, forever playing catch-up. Or, if you stay, you can decide to make a quantum leap of your own. You do this by incorporating suggestions about shifting to frugal living and smart-living ways of living.

Life is for living. When would it be a very good time for you to re-start your life with new optimism and expectancy?

For an easy start, click on this link: RELOCATE TO ACHIEVE YOUR LIFE’S POTENTIALS. See more links inside that then go to ixquick.com and search out further facts on any place you would like to study. Susan Reale has lived in America, Canada and other places. She offers her practical ideas from a post-kids, post-career, but a great-second-marriage perspective. See her blog, Suddenly Frugal-Suddenly Smart for more extraordinary possible choices that work.

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The guide to living cheap does not mean sacrifice. If you think you do not have enough money to retire…stop a minute. Here are four different lifestyles which has kept the writer and wife retired for 15 years. They are not only cheap they are fun as well…you can do this too.

1) Our favorite and most adventurous frugal lifestyle was living on a sailboat…we enjoyed sailboat cruising in the Caribbean for eight wonderful years. It was not only fun we only spent around a $1,000 a month once in the islands. Why that cheap? Anchoring is free…no cash registers in sight…and the view was better than people paying $600 a night in a fancy resort 100 yards from our boat.

2) Full time RV is a great frugal retirement lifestyle. If you enjoy traveling without the hassle of packing and unpacking, give it a try. Monthly rent was around $450…pretty cheap including utilities. We used the RV as a means of finding a permanent retirement home. You can enjoy this fun, frugal retirement lifestyle too.

3) Live overseas…we spent eight years in foreign countries. They are cheap, fun, interesting and safe. For instance one million Americans live in Mexico. For $1500 to $2000 a month you can live very well. Health insurance, many of their doctors trained in the US, is #270 a year. Ladies the above budget includes a maid. You are three times more likely to a victim of violent crime in the US vs Mexico.

4) Downsizing…if you think there is no way you could go from a big house to a condo or RV…I beg to differ. We moved from a 1800 square foot home to a 35 sailboat with curved walls. You quickly find that you need very little to live and live well. Do not let your \”stuff\” prevent you from retiring.

Yes you can still retire. We have done so for 15 years…having fun with no regrets. You can too…armed with the right information. You need the guide to living cheap. Interested?

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