FOCUS ON MAKING HEALTHY CHOICES TO SAVE MONEY
On the surface, you might not see the connection between making healthy choices and frugal living. However, think about some of the less-than-healthy habits you have.
Eating expensive processed snack foods, drinking too much soda, and not exercising enough are all costly habits. If you changed these habits to the flip side, you would save money.
In the long run, the more you exercise, the healthier you are. Therefore, the fewer doctors’ appointments you’ll need to make and pay for.
Consider medicines you might be taking for physical conditions, like high blood pressure or high cholesterol. Focusing on being healthy by exercising more and monitoring your food intake might save you your prescription costs in just a couple of months.
Practicing healthy living is intimately connected with frugal living.
Consider any vices you have that cost unreasonable amounts of money, like smoking and alcohol. When you decide to avoid those substances, you’ll definitely save money, not to mention improve your health.
Did you know that if you drank a cheap $9 bottle of wine with dinner everyday, that adds up to over $3,285 per year! And that’s not factoring in any other alcoholic drinks!
And if you smoked one pack per day at $11 per pack, that’d add up to over $4,015 per year!
Those are real costs, not including the cost of health care, insurance, and so on.
Here are four quick tips to help you save money by making healthy choices:
- Do a quick review of health habits you would like to improve.
- Write them down.
- Generate options for how you can be healthier. Choose healthy ways to manage each issue.
- Record the amount of money you save each month by making healthier choices.
Remember to replace bad habits with good ones, and when you do, you’ll not only boost your health, you’ll save a big chunk of change!
Dawn Corbett is a driven, self-motivated, elementary educator, and a molder of young minds. She has taught in public education for twenty plus years. Creating original content is something that she is passionate about and gets excited about. She knows the value of confidentiality, cooperation, and being a team player. Working as an editor and blog writer has given her a valuable opportunities to develop her own intellect and a different perspective on how to respectfully communicate with others in different styles.