Something I've always done annually is a review of my expenses with a Wants and Needs column. Well this year my Needs column received a forensic audit and I've gone health insurance hunting as I was just hit with a 29% premium increase. Gulp. Went shopping and United Healthcare has a nice plan where I won't lose anything significant and can make the damage a 12% increase. I'm paid up through next week, but will likely finalize this new plan in the next few days. Mind you I'm still paying what amounts to an obscene luxury car payment, but it's less than I woulda been paying.
Winn Dixie and Publix are our 2 big grocery chains here in FL. Always bounced b/t both, but WD as of late has started to put on some amazing sales comparatively speaking and if you have their app they rack up and track your points. Took some nice coin off my grocery bill tonight. Plus if you want you can use those points for gas at several different flavored stations like Shell and Chevron. I know this can ebb and flow so Publix might be the hot ticket next month as they compete for consumers.
Figured some of the suggestions here might be regional like with grocery stores, but thought it could be constructive to have a thread where our necessities of daily living are addressed with possible ways to stretch the dollar. Never know we may even have people in industries who are true SME's and can point the Pit in the right direction for the ever increasing costs of life. I'd love to hear from anyone who may orbit any insurance industry just to hear the latest. My homeowners policy went up 31% for this year!
Winn Dixie and Publix are our 2 big grocery chains here in FL. Always bounced b/t both, but WD as of late has started to put on some amazing sales comparatively speaking and if you have their app they rack up and track your points. Took some nice coin off my grocery bill tonight. Plus if you want you can use those points for gas at several different flavored stations like Shell and Chevron. I know this can ebb and flow so Publix might be the hot ticket next month as they compete for consumers.
Figured some of the suggestions here might be regional like with grocery stores, but thought it could be constructive to have a thread where our necessities of daily living are addressed with possible ways to stretch the dollar. Never know we may even have people in industries who are true SME's and can point the Pit in the right direction for the ever increasing costs of life. I'd love to hear from anyone who may orbit any insurance industry just to hear the latest. My homeowners policy went up 31% for this year!
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