Collecting money for buying Art, it seems to be something weird, restricted to rich and famous people (who can afford 10.000 bucks in artwork). Ok let’s talk with keeping feets on the ground. All art had one day a very affordable price, let say something like one or few hundreds euros. Let’s say we have find this masterpiece and looking forward the money to buy it.
150 euros is money. But wath worth 150 euros nowaday ? This is not an everyday purchase and let say that with 1 euros saved every day, we can collect 365 euros wich is really sufficient for one purchase a year.
Have a look now at what worth 150 euros in a contemporary shop :
- Hard Drive (wich will be half full, if full, stop downloading on P2P !).
- A not so wondefull designer suit, buy half price that won’t fit you and will never be weared.
- un toy for baby (baby is scared of the weirds sounds coming from it) + a babygrow (from a famous italian designer) + a scary, dusty cuddly toy.
- 4 impulsive purchases on Ebay. (shipping price included).
- A really really huge TV set. (150 euros less and you could afford something where you are not required to stick to the opposite wall for getting the whole picture). And buying an expensive tv don’t modify the quality of TV programmes.
- Christmas present, you didn’t expect. (wich will end on Ebay if you are an Ebay addict…)
- All theses stuff you prefer not to talk about…
Well they are lot exagerated purchases, and maybe find spare change in theses… but before avoiding impulsive action, let make a first easy (very easy) solution : simple, easy, not very fast but efficient.
150 euros in one year, we can make some pretty money. Take a piggy bank (the bigger one) , put it in the closest place you put your keys in your home sweet home (entrance, near the fireplace, then follow the little tips
— Tips list to save pretty money —
Tips N°1 : put all your spare change (0.01 euros / 0.02 euros / 0.05 euros) in the piggy bank ! The coins in your pockets, the coins you find on the ground (banknotes as well), change of newspaper, bread & milk, and theses you find in the sof.
Astuce N°2 : Decide to get an original present for christmas., birthday, special event…
Astuce N°2 : instead of taking bus/metro/taxi , take your bike or feet. Walking is good for your heart, and bike is good too.The saved fare will go diretly into piggy.
Astuce N°3 : Let piggy away from your hands. Don’t try to substitute money from his gold belly…
Astuce N°4 : Each piece us for the trolley 1 euros tesco / 2 euros Aldi) will directly be driven to piggy (but you may have theses plastic coins instead of piece now, so let’s think about something else…).
Astuce N°5 : Put the price of a cinema ticket in piggy, particulary if you planned to see a really bad movie (Asterix and the Olympic games from thomas langmann is really the most annoying and not-funny movie ever made, please, save your money!)
Astuce N°6 : Each month, you can make a bank account cleaning, meaning that you round your bank account to the perfect end of 0,00 euros (13,526,575.56 -> 13,526,570.00), then you get the sensationnal feeling of having won the lottery, or having a very tidy bank account), and few euros in piggy.
Astuce N°7 :Re-sell on Ebay all theses things in your attic. Doesn’t meen you try to avoid your unusefull purchase, but keep your attic/laundry cleen from thesese. Instead of hidding shameless stuff, let expose something on the wall…
Let’s do it ! :
Have a look at my galss already full of coins in few weeks… already 2 Euros end few cents, ok it’s not sufficient but it’s a start !
PS : As soon i have few ideas about how to save sapre change, i will give you theses new tips ! And try few galleries this week end and look for something you can afford with all theses money….
