Save more money by turning back the clock.

Lower your standard of living. Get rid of cable and your cell phone. Try it for a month. Both technologies are unnecessary and can chew up a lot of time. Remember people used to be able to survive without cell phones going off every 5 mins and without 400 channels.

Two easy ways to improve gas mileage

Inflate your tires

Get the junk out of the trunk.

Doing these two simple things will help you go farther on one tank of gas.

Update: Step by Step guide to Saving Money on your Comcast High Speed Internet

Debt Hater here it is:

Save money on your Comcast High Speed Internet, or any other service that uses a cable modem.

1. Find out what cable modem you are currently using. I had a RCA DCM315R Digital Cable Modem DOCSIS 2.0.
   
2. Go to Ebay.com and purchase the same type of modem. I found a refurbished one selling for $0.99 shipping cost me $10 for a total of $10.99.
3. Receive modem and install it. For those that are technologically challenged unplug the one you have, taking note of where the wires are connected and they put the new one in.
   
4. Call Comcast and explain that you bought your own modem. They will ask you for Serial Number and the Mac address (both numbers are on a sticker on the bottom of the modem). Make sure your internet works.
5. Take back the original modem to your local Comcast and tell them to take off the rental charge that appears on your bill every month.
   
6. Voila! You're done. Now you've just reduced your monthly cable bill by a few dollars (I'm saving $3 a month)
   

Electronics will always be expensive

There is no way around it, new electronics are always expensive. Soften the blow to your wallet with frugal shopping. Never pay retail. You can always save a lot of money by looking for an open box sale of new merchandise or quickly checking Ebay and other online electronics stores. I recently bought a 1 gb micro sd for my phone on Ebay for $18. The same memory would have cost around $60 in the store. If you got to shop be smart about it. Don't kick yourself about electronics either if you want the newest, smallest and fastest it'll probably be the most expensive, if you can live without if for about 6 months to a year the price will drop.

Save money on speaker wire

Don't buy Monster Cable for $55, it works no better than regular 24 gage copper wire, the kind you would find in a lamp cord. The same length would cost about $1.80 at your local hardware store. There is no difference in sound quality. Don't fall for expensive speaker wires, it is a marketing ploy.

What I did to lower my phone and cable bills.

Save more money by cutting bills in half
Over the past year I used Microsoft Money to budget expenses. We were spending a lot of money on the cable bill (including high speed internet, and cable TV) and the phone bill (home phone, cell phones). I use Comcast for cable and internet and Verizon for home phone and cell. Comcast cost me $112.25 a month and Verizon ran at $126.12 a month.

Total for these bills = $238.37 a month or $2,860.44 a year.

I cut my bills down to $39.40 a month for Comcast and $52.94 a month for Verizon + $6.17 a month for home phone from SunRocket.

Total of the new bills = $98.51 a month or $1,182.12 a year

That's a total savings of $140.16 a month or $1,681.92 a year. Not bad at all.

If you are still paying a lot for cable and phone bills here is what you can do to cut them in half. First find out who the accounts are under. If it is under one name, cancel and sign up for a new promo offer under your spouses name. We moved and were able to qualify for a new account because of our change of address. Take advantage of the competition for customers that Comcast and Verizon are fighting for. To save even more money sign up for an account at BountyZoo and they will pay you a $35 bonus for signing up with Comcast and a $100 bonus for signing up for SunRocket. Ditch your landline and go to Voip. Basically SunRocket is the same as Vonage, but for a lower price. Right now they are running a promotion that you get the first 3 months free. I have had this service for over 3 months and it works great.

Sign up for BountyZoo at the link provided here and sign up for you services through their website. 3 months after your purchase they will pay you your "bounty" your free money bonuses through Paypal. This works, I just got paid $110. You can also find other deals and discounts on their site.

You can also send me an email MarshallMiddle@walla.com if you want and I'll give you a referral link for SunRocket or enter the referral code 73 26 780 825. I also have ING Direst $25 dollar bonuses for opening a savings account with $250 too.