7 Products People Waste Money On and Can Do for Free
Posted on October 11th, 2010
Are you like billions of other Americans who struggle to make ends meet or save money? Are you constantly wasting money on high-priced gadgets that only make your life more complicated? Don’t you want it to stop? Well, fortunately, there’s a tool that will guarantee to help you achieve money management success!
Hi, my name is Henry Truc, national spokesman for the Just-Do-It-Yourself, and I’m here to tell you about the wonderful creation that has helped me and fellow billionaires like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates get our money under control.* Aren’t you tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck because you own the entire As Seen It On Tv catalog? Well, now you’re in luck.
Introducing the Just-Do-It-Yourself!
The Just-Do-It-Yourself is a concept adapted by ancient consumers of years past. It helps you reduce clutter and develop common skills like boiling an egg, cutting your food or even holding a pen! Best of all, you can have it for the low, low price of $0.00! That’s almost 100 percent off the suggested manufacturer’s price you’d find in retail stores!
The Do-It-Yourself-O-Matic has great benefits you can’t find anywhere else, like:
Money Saving Features
- Stop spending cash you don’t have on things you don’t need
- End your laziness and do it yourself
- Develop some common sense
- Stop buying useless things to help you deal with the other useless things you bought
- Save money!
But that’s not all! If you act now, the Just-Do-It-Yourself also comes with:
Bonus Features from Money Saved:
- Funds to invest for retirement
- Compound interest generated over years to build wealth
- Cash to put in your depleted savings account
- Money to buy things you actually need
- Savings for junior’s college fund
- Potential for a down payment on a large purchase (Did anyone say a house or car?!)
Those are just some of the astounding benefits of using the Just-Do-It-Yourself. These aren’t just money saving tips, this is the beginning of a whole new way of life.
How Not to Waste Money
Don’t know how to start? Don’t worry! Here are just a few examples where you can save yourself, and your wallet, some trouble just by doing it yourself.
Egg Genie
Tip: It may look hard, but boiling an egg really isn’t. Poor cold water into a saucepan until it is one inch above the eggs. Put on the stove at medium heat until boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for two or three minutes for soft boiled eggs, and 10 to 15 for hard boiled. Voila! Saves You: $19.95 plus $6.95 with shipping and handling. Sonic Blade
Tip: Cut gentler with a normal knife. That’s it. Saves You: $69.99 list price on Amazon.com. UroClub
Tip: That’s disgusting. Go ahead of time, but if you have a weak bladder I suppose it can’t be avoided sometimes. Saves You: $24.95 plus $11.95 S&H, and whatever you price your dignity at. Magic Bullet
Tips: Use a blender, and then pour it in a cup. Voila! Saves You: $99.99 plus $47.97 S&H. JumpSnap
Tips: Use an actual jump rope, or, just jump around and wave your arms. Saves You: $39.95 plus $9.95 S&H. MagneScribe Pen
Tips: You can also use something called a pocket. Saves You: $19.99 on Amazon. Comfort Wipe
Tips: I’ll spare you the details, but does that even look comfortable? Saves You: List price is $14.99 on Amazon.
Add all the prices up to just these seven items and you could be looking at a savings of $368.63! Imagine saving that much every year just by doing simple tasks yourself! And that’s just a conservative approach.
If you took that money every year and invested it in a retirement account or a mutual fund generating a moderate return of just seven percent over 30 years, it could grow to just under $35,000! Almost $24,000 of that would be from the interest your money earned! It doesn’t get any simpler than that.
What are some ways you save money by just doing it yourself?
*Disclaimer: Henry Truc is not a billionaire. He does not, nor has he ever, had any relations with Mr. Buffett or Mr. Gates–professional or otherwise–and can neither confirm nor prove that they have in fact used this tool. Readers are advised to disregard that sentence entirely.
Henry Truc is an experienced business writer and personal finance enthusiast. He cut his teeth learning about balance sheets and income statements for publicly traded stocks and hopes to use those same principles to help readers in need with their own personal budgets. His work has appeared on Yahoo! Finance, Nasdaq.com, and many other publications. He has interviewed CEOs and Wall Street analysts, as well as investment fund managers and economists, but what warms his heart the most is explaining the dangers of paying only the minimum balance on credit card debt. It’ll cost you more in the long run! He hopes to spread the word to any and all who will listen. If you have a problem; if no one else can help, and if you can find him… maybe you can ask him a question relating to personal finance. Follow him on Twitter.
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