There are many things you should always buy used if you want to save your money. Sure we all love the excitement of going to a store and buying something brand new. It’s nice to tear off the packaging, read through the instruction manual and know that we are the first to use it. In some cases even the smell can be a bit of a rush or listening to the bindings crinkle into place for the first time has a certain allure. Is paying 3 or 4 times as much really worth it?

Here is a list of 4 things you should buy used to save thousands of dollars in your lifetime:

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Please read the disclaimer before you continue

            If you have completed your budget and found out that it does not balance, give your self a pat on the back. Not only do most people lack the knowledge or desire to balance a budget, they won’t even take the time to make a budget in the first place. If you have found out that you are spending more than you make, you have taken a big first step to correcting this problem. You cannot change what you do not know. If you would like to find out how to create a budget, you can read my previous post found here.

            To put it simply there are really only two ways that you can balance a budget. They are:

1.                  Make more.

2.                  Spend less.

You can find out if you are spending more than you make with the free budget spreadsheet found in the free “how to manage money” tool kit.