[donna]

Right now we are trying to cut back on the extra spending and I notice when we are saving, of course it allows us to buy the little things that sometimes we really like. For me, I hate spending a ton of money on things to clean with, it just does not seem like it should cost a ton to clean you know? So what are others doing to check their spend vs save, and how much are you really saving?

[Bella]

We very seldom buy anything that we don't really need. It's not so much about saving though - that's just the way we are. I would say we save, on average, about one quarter of what we make.

[gardener]

Right now we are spending more than saving. I know I need to stop it. There seems to be a lot of things that we need and I just go buy them.

[BusyBee]

We are usually savers rather than spenders but when we do spend it tends to be big. We have cut way back on our going out to eat budget and I have been saving a good bit with coupons for groceries lately.