Can Fifteen Minutes Really Save You 15%?

January is a great month for resolutions and what better resolution could you have than to find new ways to save money for travel? This month's articles will focus on ways to help you conserve cash for that trip you'd like to take when the weather warms up.

Saving money is not the least bit painful; there's no discomfort because you will not have to make any sacrifices. Conserving your dollars involves spending intelligently, rather than haphazardly, so you can live below your means and bank the rest of your income for travel. You won't scrimp. It is possible to live well, even luxuriously, on far less than you might think.


You might not have been lucky enough to have an older sister and brother-in-law who took you under their wing when you were growing up to teach you the basics of frugality, but I will be happy to share what they taught me, along with a few other tricks I've learned along the way. George finally gave up trying to teach me measurement conversions (I still do not know how many pints are in a quart.), but he, along with my sister, succeeded in teaching me the value of smart shopping and that's a lesson I've never forgotten.

They introduced me to Consumer Reports monthly magazine, published by Consumers Union, and told me to evaluate products according to Consumer Reports ratings, and to disregard all advertising in any other media. Using this magazine, they assured