Cheddar News took to the streets to ask our viewers for their thoughts on money, from how to cut spending to utilizing credit card perks.

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Stretching Your Dollar

Cheddar News Asks Viewers Their Thoughts on Stretching Their Dollars 

Welcome back to stretching your dollar on Chet news. Everyone we know that understanding our finances can be hard really at any age. So we took to the streets to talk to you our viewers directly and get your thoughts on money. Take a look. I like to meal, prep and take public transportation. Uh I should say those are probably the big ones going to the library for fun. Just be aware and then like make things work for you, right? Like you can get good rates on checking accounts and savings accounts nowadays and if you have a good rate on your home, you know, just take, take advantage of what everything is out there, right? Whether it's, I hate to say credit card offers, but there's certain credit card offers that you can utilize whether you know the perks of points and the perks of memberships and things of you like take advantage of them. Don't just let them rot and waste. Use it. Go somewhere, fly for free, stay for free, utilize all that stuff to your advantage. Food. I know junk food and fast food isn't always the way. But if it, if you can grab like something fast and stuff like that. It doesn't always have to be the, the, the bad junk food like Chick Fil A or something like that. And then you can cook dinner at night instead of buying food all day, you know, stuff like that or cooking at night, going to, going to work or school with your food. Meal planning is always great to save you a buck. It always stretches out your money. So stuff like that is really good. I put 20 at least 20% of my salary and payroll to the same account. I'm totally into public transport. Even away from New York City where there's even less transportation. I'm always trying to walk as much as I can and take the bus as much as I can. Also cooking from the grocery store, getting groceries for myself most of the time, not really eating out as much. Those are my strategies. I try to go out or do certain things a certain amount of times a week. So that's how I budget myself. So for example, if I want to go out to an expensive place, I go out once a week or if I want to eat at a fancy place, I eat a fancy place or like an outside place three times a week. And that's like the maximum amount if it's already Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and I ate out for three times a week. That's, that's my limit. So I limit myself more in the amount of times a week, more than the exact amount of money. I love it. Take it slow. That's my takeaway and certainly a strategy that I will be working on as well. All right, we asked you on social media, our viewers at home, how you are stretching your dollar and we got some great responses. So we're going to call him out. Christopher B says that he is planting and growing his own food. Very sustainable. Christopher, I give you credit. Um Ramon A says that they're cutting back on going out only eating at home. No alcohol, which he says we all know can add up and get expensive without even realizing it. Yes. And probably a healthier option anyway. And then Zach A said that he got a third job to keep up with inflation. Yes. It's just reality bites. It is the truth. But tell us what you want to know what you're doing, your tips, your questions on social media every day, we ask you our viewers and then of course we'll answer them on air. So we want to make the show interactive. The show is about you. That's the whole premise. So I hope you will engage on social media. I'm available on social media. I'll be interacting as well so that we really can go on this money saving journey together. Gonna do it for our second episode of stretching your dollar. Thank you for watching, I'll see you back here tomorrow. Same time, same place.