Worrying about money is something that almost every single person experiences at some point. Give these 5 awesome ways to banish money worries a try and start living a more relaxed life.
Often in life, you may find yourself with too much month left for the amount of money you have. This can cause massive worrying about money.
While we can’t always control how much money we make or expenses that might crop up during a month, by making a few lifestyle changes, you can eliminate the feeling that you’re on the edge of disaster.
After being over $107,000 in debt and putting living expenses on credit cards for years, I made these changes, and it has made all of the difference in mine and my family’s lives.
This post is all about ways to stop worrying about money and live a more carefree life.
1. Eliminate Debt
We’re just going to start with the big one first. The best way to eliminate worrying about money is to eliminate debt. This may seem like an overwhelming task and miles out of reach, when what you need is to get rid of your money worries today.
Unfortunately, like me, it probably took you years to accumulate the amount of debt that you have, and getting rid of it doesn’t happen overnight.
However, there are some great ways to get out of debt, and most people when they follow a step-by-step plan, eliminate all of their debt within 2 years.
I highly recommend checking out Financial Peace University. This is the plan that enabled me and my family to pay off over $107,000 in debt in less than 2 years. After living debt-free for the last 4 years, I can say that I do not spend my nights awake worrying about money anymore, and have been able to navigate through job losses and changes.
2. Plan, Plan, Plan
One of the biggest factors in getting rid of my worries about money was to start using a daily planner. Planners give you a place to track your plans for the month, and this can have a great impact on your finances.
Here are 4 things you can keep track of in a planner that will help you chase all of that worrying about money away:
1. Meal Plan
Plan out your meals for the week or even the whole month, and avoid not only the money worries with how to have enough money to eat, but also avoid the dreaded debate on what to eat each night.
If things happen like they do in my house, anytime we’re undecided on food, it always spirals down to a horrible back and forth of “What do you want?”.
Meal planning can side-step these dreaded conversations, help save money, and also afford you the opportunity to make healthy meals.
2. Navigate busy evenings
Do you have a night or two where you won’t be home to cook? Writing out your schedule for the week will allow you to identify days or evenings that may be really busy, and might impact your ability to cook dinner or even be home to eat.
Tracking these busy dates in a planner can allow you to identify these hurdles ahead of time, and figure out a way to navigate them.
3. Habit tracking
Your habits have a strong impact on your daily routines, and your routines directly impact your money. Some great habits to track in your planner that can have tremendous benefits include: abstaining from soda, having a no spend day, reading a book, reading the Bible, spending time in prayer or meditation.
Tracking your habits daily is a great way to baby step your way to a happier, healthier life.
4. Identify important dates
Do you have any birthdays, anniversaries, or special occasions coming up? Using a planner to track upcoming special dates can help you to budget more accurately for your month.
3. Get Rid of the Ordinary and Strive for the Extraordinary
Basically, this can change your whole outlook on shopping. Many people have jumped on the Marie Kondo bandwagon, and others have made fun of it. In a nutshell, she urges you to only keep things you love.
While I personally don’t agree with all of her methods, this tip on getting rid of your worrying about money, goes hand-in-hand with this one piece of her philosophy.
Stop buying lots of random things, such as clothes.
I used to go to the outlet malls and discount stores and buy a few new pieces of clothes frequently. This resulted in my closet being stuffed with clothes that I never wanted to wear and that didn’t last.
One day I considered taking a trip out to do some more shopping to add to my already full closet, I just couldn’t find anything in the closet I wanted to wear. Nothing fit correctly. Nothing was really “my style”, and most things were faded or had holes.
If you find yourself in this same position, I recommend you do what I did. Ditch all of the cheap, ill-fitting clothes. For the price of 2 or 3 of those tops, you could have 1 nice top that fits you perfectly and you can’t wait to wear. For the price of 2 pairs of those too-tight, not quite short enough or long enough jeans, you could have 1 pair that you look amazing in.
Choose to pay a little more for 1 of the things that make you feel great, in exchange for 3 of the things that make you feel…ugh. Then, only buy a few items. You don’t need 20 tops. You only need 7.
Apply this to other items besides clothes, and you can have a simple, elegant home, an organized kitchen, and a clutter-free life filled with only things that are worth your money.
There are so many free resources available now, and most people do not utilize them, or even know they are available. My favorite free resources is the local library.
The library of 2021 is not the library of your childhood. I remember visiting the library when I was a kid. It was a quiet place full of books, but today, you might be surprised at what all your local library has to offer.
1. DVD’s
Most libraries now carry a large selection of current and classic movies across all genres. Not only can you rent them for free, you usually get them for a week or more. So no worries about returning them by the next day, even if you ran out of time to watch it.
2. Events
Many libraries now offer lots of different events for children, adults, seniors, singles and families. From special guest teachers and game nights, to movie nights, you can find all kinds of free entertainment.
3. Technology
Most libraries now provide computers and sometimes tablets for you to use while you’re in the building. Instead of having to buy expensive devices, you can utilize the ones at the library for free or a small daily fee.
By utilizing technology outside of your home, you can lower the amount of time you spend online, which can be beneficial to your health.
4. Books!
Did you know that there are many benefits to reading? Some of my favorite benefits include, lowering stress levels, living longer, and improving your focus.
If you have gotten out of the habit of doing daily reading, today is a great day to pick up the habit. Check out all 10 of these great benefits of reading every day.
5. Do a Monthly Budget
One key to taking control of your money, so as to quit worrying about money, is to start doing a monthly budget. If you’re like me, you probably heard the word “budget” with a negative connotation most of your life. I avoided doing a budget for the first 20 years of my married life….no lie.
Don’t be like me. Start doing a budget today.
First of all, a budget is not negative. It’s one of the most positive things I do every month now. These are the three big reasons to start a budget today:
1. You get to tell your money where to go
Are you tired of wondering every month what happened to all of your money? Where did it all go? Where is the $1000 worth of stuff in my house, since that $1000 isn’t in my account anymore? The truth is, it just gets frittered away.
By doing a budget before you get paid each month, you get to decide where every dollar of your paycheck is going to go before it ever hits your account.
2. Just stick to it
After creating your budget, your job is easy….just stick to it. You have $200 to spend on eating out? Yay! You get to decide which restaurants get blessed with your money this month. When the $200 is gone, then you’re done eating out.
You have $75 to buy that new purse you’ve had you’re eye on? WooHoo! Go get it, then don’t get anything else this month.
Take my word for it, having limits on your spending actually feels very freeing.
3. Set yourself up for success
By creating your budget at the beginning of the month, you are setting yourself up for money success. You will no longer feel the fear of running out of money, or those sleepless nights worrying about money and where it all went.
It seems like everywhere you turn now days, you hear the word “intentional” It’s been so used and overused, a lot of people just tune it out. Really, it’s just a fancy word for paying attention. One of the leading causes of money worries comes from worrying about running out of money or not having enough money each month.
You can remove this aspect of your worry by paying attention.
If you are like I was, you may not know how much money you have each month, how much needs to go out, or what the big picture of your finances actually looks like. Five years ago, I thought ignoring the details would keep the worry away, but it wasn’t until I started looking at the details all the time, that the worry disappeared.
The best way to do this is write down your spending….every….day.
This may seem difficult and like it might make you crazy, but I can attest to the opposite effect. By looking at your spending and writing it down every day, either on a transaction printable or on a spreadsheet, you will know exactly how much money you have at all times.
Another benefit to writing your spending down every day, is that it makes tracking your spending quick and easy. Most days, you won’t have more than 2 or 3 purchases, so it shouldn’t take you more than 3-5 minutes to stay up to date.
You will eliminate any surprise deductions from your account by tracking your spending each day. It’s easy to lose track of receipts and memories of purchases. By writing it down each day, you’re sure to know every expense before it comes out of your account.
7. Be Realistic
This tip has proven to be the hardest one for me to get a grasp on. For the first year that I did a budget, I hardly ever stuck to it. I finally had to come to grips with the fact that my budget was a fantasy.
Creating a budget that isn’t realistic will be impossible to keep. So, keep it real.
Here are some hard facts and questions you might need to address:
1. You have to eat.
Don’t budget $200 a month for food, if it really costs you $600 a month. Now, cutting back on snacks and sugary drinks will not only help your budget, but they’ll improve your health.
Some cuts to your food budget can be good, but undercutting your budget in an effort to save money to a point that you can’t actually feed yourself or your family will just cause you to fail that month.
2. Are you really going out to eat?
Here is where I failed most of the time. I’d budget $0 for eating out and say we’re never going into a restaurant this month. However, I knew my daughter and her family were coming to visit at least one weekend that month, and we would want to take them to their favorite restaurant.
Budgeting for this trip out, along with nights that I knew we wouldn’t get home until 9:00, just makes sense.
Avoiding restaurants, again, is not only beneficial to your wallet, but also to your health. However, setting your self up for success with a realistic budget and some self-control will go a long way.
3. Do you have blow money?
Blow money is essentially money you get to blow, or spend on anything you want. It could include entertainment, eating lunch out, or a purse you’ve been eyeing.
Having money budgeted as blow money is important, because being successful at eliminating worrying about money means that you feel like you can spend money on things that are important to you. Feeling constrained by your budget can make you feel more money worries.
Be sure to budget in a reasonable amount of money each month for you (and a spouse, if applicable) to spend the way you want. I also highly recommend making it in cash, so as to keep from overspending.
Being realistic about these aspects of your money can help banish all of that worrying about money each month, because you will have a solid plan.
I personally use these seven steps every day, and I can tell you that my life will never be the same.
I hope this helps you with a few ways to get started in eliminating your worrying about money to begin moving toward a more carefree life.
If you have other methods that you have implemented in your life to eliminate money worries, I’d love for you to share it in a comment below.
Have you had trouble saving money? The 26 week money challenge can help you save lots of money in small bi-weekly steps.
What is the 26 week money challenge?
This challenge happens over the course of either 26 weeks, which is 6 months, or over the course of one year or 52 weeks. Most people complete this challenge over 52 weeks, and put the money into savings every two weeks. This challenge is perfect for those who are paid bi-weekly or every two weeks.
The challenge starts small with only saving $3 the first week and works its way up to saving $101 at the most in one week.
By the end of the challenge, you will have saved $1,378 at the end of the 26 weeks.
What are the benefits of completing the challenge?
There are many benefits to completing this savings challenge, such as
Builds up your saving muscles– It makes saving money a habit that you can continue through the rest of your life.
Starter Emergency Fund– When you finish, you will have a starter emergency fund to put margin between you life’s emergencies.
You can start any time– Many people think they need to start a big challenge at the beginning of a new year, but it is not necessary. You can start it any month and any day of the year.
First step to financial freedom– If you wish to pursue financial freedom, you will have completed baby step 1 of Dave Ramsey’s baby step plan for financial peace, which I highly recommend.
Influence– If you have children, showing them your dedication to saving and taking control of your money can have a positive influence on their future.
4 simple steps for competing the 26 week money challenge
1. Use a visual tracker
Many people have success with staying motivated for the 26 week money challenge by printing out a tracker and placing it in a prominent place. Check out this 26 week challenge tracker.
If you don’t want to use a pre-made tracker, you can always create your own to put on your refrigerator or in a planner. In my own experience, if you keep the tracker in a prominent place where you and others in your family can see it daily, you will be more likely to follow through each week.
So, step one will be to print out a visual tracker or create your own and place it in a place that is easy to see on a daily basis.
2. Designate an envelope or a bank account for your savings
You can choose to save two different ways, electronically or with cash.
If you want to save in a bank account, then each week, you will transfer the amount into that account.
The important part to this step is that for the entire year, you must not remove money from where you have deposited it.
3. Color your tracker
Each week when you save the correct amount, color in the icon on your tracker that corresponds with that week’s savings.
By coloring in your tracker, you will stay motivated as you see the more and more icons being colored in.
4. Celebrate your dedication to success
Celebrate each week as you meet that week’s savings goal. There is no need to wait until you’ve saved the total amount, since you’re building savings muscles, each week is a celebration.
As you color in each week’s icon, find a fun way to celebrate. You’re changing your life and taking control of your money, and that is worth celebrating!
A Modified Challenge
I’d like to mention a slightly modified option that may work better for you than the traditional way of completing the challenge.
If you happen to be starting the challenge at the beginning of the new year, you might notice that you’re saving only $10 in the month of January; however, you’re saving $204 in the month of December. This could prove challenging with the holidays.
One way that you could modify the challenge is to choose any dollar amount that you want to save each week. For instance, if you happened to get a bonus at work one week, that might be a good week to save the $103. If you’re having a tight week, because it’s close to the end of the month, you might want to save a lower amount.
As long as your icons are all colored in by the end of the year, and you have saved each amount, then you will still save the full amount.
This is just another option, and you can decide which way works the best for you.
If you would rather do a weekly savings challenge, you might be interested in the 52 Week Money Challenge instead.
I hope you have great success in completing the 26 week money challenge, and it helps you to reach new goals!
If you complete the 26 week challenge or have completed another money challenge, please let us know in a comment below. I’d love to be your new cheerleader!
Saving money can be tricky, but you can use the 52 week money challenge to baby step your way to a year’s worth of savings.
There can be many obstacles to saving money, and if you’re like me, you may wish to save, but frequently fail to follow through. In addition, you may be one of the 78% of Americans that live paycheck to paycheck.
Using the 52 week money challenge, saving makes saving money motivating and a game.
You’ll learn how to use the 52 week challenge to save $1,378 in one year in five easy steps, and exercise your savings muscles for continued savings after the challenge.
This post is about how to save with the 52 week money challenge.
What is the 52 week money challenge?
The challenge is a way to save small amounts of money each week, and by the end of a year, you will have saved $1,378.
In this challenge you’ll start by saving $1. Each week, the amount saved increases by only one dollar, until eventually you’ve saved enough for a starter emergency fund.
Benefits of completing the challenge
There are several benefits to completing this challenge:
Builds up your saving muscles– It makes saving money a habit that you can continue through the rest of your life.
Starter Emergency Fund– When you finish, you will have a starter emergency fund to put margin between you life’s emergencies.
You can start any time– Many people think they need to start a big challenge at the beginning of a new year, but it is not necessary. You can start it any month and any day of the year.
First step to financial freedom– If you wish to pursue financial freedom, you will have completed baby step 1 of Dave Ramsey’s baby step plan for financial peace, which I highly recommend.
Influence– If you have children, showing them your dedication to saving and taking control of your money can have a positive influence on their future.
One great way to stay motivated while completing the 52 Week Money Challenge is to use a printable tracker.
If you don’t want to use a pre-made tracker, you can always create your own to put on your refrigerator or in a planner. In my own experience, if you keep the tracker in a prominent place where you and others in your family can see it daily, you will be more likely to follow through each week.
So, step one will be to print out a visual tracker or create your own and place it in a place that is easy to see on a daily basis.
2. Designate an envelope or a bank account for your savings
You can choose to save two different ways, electronically or with cash.
If you want to save in a bank account, then each week, you will transfer the amount into that account.
The important part to this step is that for the entire year, you must not remove money from where you have deposited it.
3. Color your tracker
Each week when you save the correct amount, color in the icon on your tracker that corresponds with that week’s savings.
By coloring in your tracker, you will stay motivated as you see the more and more icons being colored in.
4. Celebrate your dedication to success
Celebrate each week as you meet that week’s savings goal. There is no need to wait until you’ve saved the total amount, since you’re building savings muscles, each week is a celebration.
As you color in each week’s icon, find a fun way to celebrate. You’re changing your life and taking control of your money, and that is worth celebrating!
A Modified Option
I’d like to mention a slightly modified option that may work better for you than the traditional way of completing the challenge.
If you happen to be starting the challenge at the beginning of the new year, you might notice that you’re saving only $10 in the month of January; however, you’re saving $202 in the month of December. This could prove challenging with the holidays.
One way that you could modify the challenge is to choose any dollar amount that you want to save each week. For instance, if you happened to get a bonus at work one week, that might be a good week to save the $52. If you’re having a tight week, because it’s close to the end of the month, you might want to save a lower amount.
As long as your icons are all colored in by the end of the year, and you have saved each amount, then you will still save the full amount.
This is just another option, and you can decide which way works the best for you.
Get paid bi-weekly?
If you get paid bi-weekly, you might be interested in the 26 week money challenge instead. This challenge has you save the same amount of money, but only save every other week.
You can read more about the 26 week money challenge here.
I hope you have great success in saving with the 52 week money challenge.
Have you done the 52 week money challenge before or another savings challenge? I’d love to hear about your successes in a comment below. Let me be your newest cheerleader!
Are looking for how to save money on electric bill without spending a small fortune first, here are twelve simple tips for you to try out today.
If you’re like me, your electric bill is one of your biggest living expenses each month. How to save money on electric bill becomes a challenge in order to lower expenses.
Many people give tips for lowering their electric bill that require even more money and even hiring others to perform tasks around your house.
Here you’ll see that you can get some real savings out of making several small and inexpensive changes around your house.
After learning these helpful tips, you’ll have some quick things to implement right away.
This post is all about how to save money on electric bill and twelve simple ways to get started today.
Take advantage of natural light
A great way to save money on your electricity is to take advantage of any natural light that comes into your home.
Instead of turning on the lights in your home, allow the sun to come in and light your rooms.
There are many benefits to using natural light in your home including the killing of bacteria and your exposure to natural vitamin D.
Use LED light bulbs
One of the best tips on how to save money on electric bill is to use LED bulbs. There are many different types of bulbs available, and they all use different amounts of electricity to run.
According to the Department of Energy, LED bulbs use the least amount of electricity, and they need to be changed less often than incandescent bulbs.
LED’s have been found to be up to 80% more efficient than using incandescent bulbs in your home. It costs roughly $1.32 to operate one LED bulb, as opposed to $6.60 to operate one incandescent bulb.
This can lead to a very significant savings on your electricity bill.
There is more than one advantage to washing your clothes in cold water. To begin with, you can avoid using hot water, which will lower your electricity bill.
According to one calculation, washing your clothes in hot or warm water will cost an average of $.68 a load. On the other hand, washing on cold averages about $.04 a load.
Another advantage to washing your clothes in cold water is that they will last longer, fade less, shrink less, and come out with fewer wrinkles. This can also cut down on the amount of ironing you need to do, thus saving more electricity.
This tip will not only save money on your electricity bill, but it can also help you save money on purchasing new clothes.
Line dry your laundry
Similar to the benefits of washing your clothes in cold water, there are multiple advantages to line drying your clothes.
According to Saving Electricity, the average savings per year by line drying is around $193. That is significant savings.
Other advantages to line drying include saving on dryer sheets, it doesn’t heat up your home, and it’s gentler on clothes, so that they last longer.
Implementing both washing your clothes in cold water and line drying could potentially save you up to $1.13 per load on average.
Turn off or Unplug any game systems
One surprisingly high use of electricity in your home might be gaming systems. I was shocked a few years ago to learn just how much power game systems use, even when they aren’t in use.
This article by Living Energy shows that just two hours of gameplay a day can add up to $29.50 a year to your electric bill. However, in standby mode, your game system can still use up to 15 watts.
By turning off or unplugging your game consoles, you can save up to 1411 watts per week.
If you’re using a gaming computer, the amount of energy used is even more shocking. One researcher found out that graphics cards can use between 300 and 500 watts alone.
If you’re like me, this information is staggering. By making the change to turn off your game systems when not in use, instead of just leaving them in standby mode or unplugging them could lead to a large amount of savings each month.
Air dry your dishes
My family started using this money saving technique about 10 years ago. Instead of turning on the heated dry feature on the dishwasher, we leave it off. Once the dishes have finished, we open the washer and let them air dry.
According to this homeguide, you can save about 15% of your dishwasher’s energy usage by making this simple change.
When possible, it can be a great electricity saver to use a lamp, instead of full room lighting. The savings would be based on the number of bulbs you normally use in your overhead lights.
If you opt for using a single bulb, instead of 4-6 bulbs at a time, you can save quite a big. If you pair that with using a lamp with LED lights, you can save even further.
The air filter’s job is to collect the dust and particles that would normally clog up your air conditioning system. By changing it regularly, you keep this from happening.
If your system becomes clogged, it doesn’t work as efficiently, which means it has to work harder to heat and cool your home.
This guide suggests you should change it on a regular basis based on what type of filter your system uses. If you’re using fiberglass filters, it’s recommended you change them every 30 days. If you’re using the pleated air filters, they can last anywhere from 3 to 6 months.
The manual for your HVAC system should give you the recommended changing schedule for best efficiency.
Use timers on electronics that plug in
Of all of the ways discussed on how to save money on electric bill, this is the one that I like using the most. Using timers is a quick and cheap way to make sure that electronics that plug into the wall don’t stay on all of the time.
You can simply plug a lamp or other small device into a timer, which then plugs into the wall. You can set it for the number of hours that you’d like that item to be on.
This ensures that the item shuts off at the normal time that you leave the house or go to bed.
On many timers, there are two sets of controls, so you can have the item on for a period of time in the mornings and a different period of time in the evenings, if you want.
These wall timers also have an on/off switch, so if you need that item on or off outside of timer hours, it is a quick flip of the switch.
Well, if you’re like me you might have heard your mom say this to you over and over when you were a kid…turn off the lights when you leave the room. All of those reminders are completely valid, since the Department of Energy reports the cost to light your home makes up about 20% of the electricity used.
If you opt for switching out your bulbs to LED’s, you’ll already save money, but you can further reduce your electric bill by being sure to turn off all lights when not necessary.
If you are using incandescent or halogen lighting in your home, you could be spending an additional $24 a year by leaving 10 bulbs on for just one extra hour a day. This may not seem like much, but often if bulbs are left on, they are on for a lot longer than just one extra hour.
In this case, follow mom’s advice and turn off the lights when you leave a room.
Use a Crock-Pot instead of the oven
An excellent tip for how to save money on electric bill is to use a crock-pot or slow cooker instead of your oven. This tip can also save you time on a busy day.
According to one source, the average crock-pot uses approximately 120 volts, and over the course of 8 hours of cooking, it will use only .9kWh. That is quite a bit less electricity than your oven would use.
In addition, using a crock-pot will not heat up your home, so it will also save money by not needing to run your air conditioner to cool your home down during cooking.
This tip may or may not work in your area, but if you are able to choose your electricity provider, this can potentially save you considerable money.
I live in Texas, and here we have the opportunity to choose our electricity providers. One thing that is obvious when choosing a provider is that there are large discounts offered to new customers.
Unfortunately, most continuing customers are not privy to those savings.
To use this information to your advantage, you can sign up for an introductory rate with a different provider each year.
If your area allows you to choose your provider, looking into changing providers for the best rates could be an excellent way to save money on electric bill.
I hope you try out some of these tips on how to save money on electric bill.
Do you have other ways that you use around your home to save money on your electric bill? I’d love for you to share them with us in a comment below.
Want to save lots of money on your online purchases, but don’t want to spend all day looking for promo codes? Honey does all of that work for you. You can save money with Honey today!
You may be like me and when you’re shopping online and you get to checkout, you see the space for a promo code and refuse to finish your purchase until you’ve checked all over the web for a discount.
I have spent so much time doing this over the years; however, now I understand how much I can save with Honey, I’ll never do it again.
You’ll see how easy it is to find discounts on online purchases, and make sure you’re getting the best deal before you part with your hard-earned money.
After learning about these three great reasons to save money with Honey and how simple it is to use it, you’ll be ready to start saving today.
This post is all about three great reasons to save money with Honey and how you can start saving right away.
What is Honey?
Honey is a free Google Chrome extension that runs in the background of your Chrome browser until it locates a discount for you.
When you visit one of the over 40,000 sites that team with Honey, you will see any discount that is available for the item(s) that you are wanting to purchase.
The icon at the top of your screen will turn orange, and you can easily utilize the extension to enable a promo code or discount, if one is available.
3 Great Reasons to use Honey
1. Amazon Best Price Tool
When you use Amazon, Honey will show you if the item you’re looking at is the best price or if there is another seller with a better price on that item.
This tool will also show you recent price changes. For example, I was planning to purchase a watch for a gift. With the Best Price tool, I was able to see that the seller had recently raised the price on that item by $15. With this information, I chose to wait to purchase.
This tool can help you to not only find the best price, but also make more informed decisions on the purchases that you’re making.
2. Droplist
Honey’s droplist is a great way to keep tabs on items that you want to buy, but are waiting for the price to drop.
You can add an item to the Honey droplist, and they will send you a notification if the price drops.
To activate this feature, all you need to do is turn it on to download the app and activate it on the Honey site. Then, just browse the 1000’s of stores registered with Honey and add any items you want to be notified about to your droplist.
3. Honey Gold Rewards
Honey’s Gold Rewards is their cash back system. As you use the honey extension, you can earn rewards by shopping with certain retailers.
As of the writing of this article, some retailers, such as Kate Spade, CVS Photo, and Gap Factory will earn you 1%-8% cash back. Others, such as Nike, Sephora and Macy’s can earn you double rewards.
Honey also gives you a friends and family link just for you. If anyone uses your link to create an account and earns points on a purchase, you can qualify for 500 points. (Terms apply.)
Some of the rewards that you can unlock include shopping credits, gift cards, or cash transfer to your PayPal account.
Honey does have to store some of your information in order for the extension to work. According to their privacy policy, they collect technical information about your device to make sure their extension is working.
You can choose to create an account, in which they will collect your email address. You will need an account in order to use their Droplist and Honey Gold Rewards features.
Honey states clearly in their privacy policy that they will never sell your information.
In order to make an informed decision about using Honey, I’d encourage you to read their short Privacy Policy to see exactly how your data is used.
3. At the top of your browser, find the gray puzzle piece and click it. It will open a list of all of your extensions.
4. Click on the push pin next to the Honey app to pin it to your toolbar. This will keep it visible, so that it can alert you to savings that you might be interested in.
If you’d like to use the Droplist or Honey Gold Rewards feature, you will need to have an account.
Click on the Honey icon at the top of your screen. It will be orange if you are on a page that has savings. It will be gray, if you are not. It will open a box.
2. Click on the icon of the person at the bottom of the box.
3. Click on the “Account” tab, and fill out your information.
I hope this helps you save money with Honey and see how you can easily get started right away.
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