Friday, January 21, 2011

Saving Money For Law School With Coupons

Yep you heard that right. If you follow my blog at all you know that I am on my way back to college one last time. This means that I have a lot of planning and a lot of goals that have to be made this year in order for me to go the way that I want to go.
I have chosen to go to law school because I made a promise to myself when I was a child that I would and now there is a pulling at my heart to make it real for many reasons.
The schools I have chosen offer a law program where I can sit for the bat in two and half to three years however I would be required to go full time and I would be required to not work during this time.
I have children two of which will be in college at the time I will be going back myself. All four of them will need me in some capacity so between school and taking care of my family I will not have time to work or earn a living.
So the goal is for the rest of the year I must find ways to save money, find funding for my education get to the city where the school is and get my family set up. I must also find housing and child care if need be.
My new years list I created is of the utmost importance to me this year because if I miss a step I lose the chance to make this happen when I want it to.
So I have pulled all of my current bills including student loans (nausea) and placed them before me.
I decided to make a list of the things I am working on to make this real.
  • I freelance write full time - this will allow me to work when I want without begin tied down to a call center type environment.  
  • I am learning how to create residual sources of income - Last year I did pretty darn well with it but this year I have to up the ante and that means looooong hours in front of the pc. 
  • I am officially looking at all my debt and seeing how fast I can get it down with this: coupons
On average I spend about six hundred dollars a month on food for the house alone. That doe's not include the household items such as toilet paper, paper towels and the like.
So I decided that after watching TLC's Extreme Coupons I would make an effort to learn more about the one thing I know could keep more of that six hundred plus dollars in my pocket and pay off more debt and make my transitions to law school better.
I don't know the first thing about double and triple coupons nor do I know the first thing about planning meals in advance based on coupons and products I buy with them but I better get with it.
Anything else that anyone else is doing to keep more money in their pocket I NEED to be doing it today.
So I'll keep you posted on my writing and residual income and what I do. You just might learn something I know I have already.

Til Next Time

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4 comments:

Nicole Ireland said...

I missed the TLC special, but I heard great things about it. It sounds like it was very inspiring.

Wrlddiva said...

Oh yes it was very inspiring. We are over here now clipping away for tomorrow's church service. I am actually excited about it. I want to see how much I can save. I understand Fred's have triple coupons on weekends. Mmmmm Lets see what I can do.

Sheltie Times said...

It sounds like a challenging but worthy journey. Your children will learn a great deal from Mom on this road.

Is anyone else in your Church engaged in this type of cost savings? It can be helpful to be part of a group.

Wrlddiva said...

Oh wow I didn't think of that Bailey! I may have to mention that at our single's ministry next week!
We could exchange coupons and all save! Great idea! Ill keep you posted.
Yve

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