The Easiest Way to Save Money Ever

Posted by Jacques - May 31, 2009

Today’s tip also contains an important life lesson. Sometimes saving money is the easiest way to make money. While making money requires you to find those opportunities, the opportunity for saving money is always there, and usually the rewards are guaranteed.

While there are literally thousands of ways to save a ton of money, not everyone is able to benefit from that kind of advice. I’m going to provide a tip that I believe will help 90% of you. For the rest, go watch some Suze Orman.

Most of you watch television. You can’t really call yourself a slacker unless you do.

What if I told you there was a kind of DVR service out there, where you could watch unlimited amounts of TV online. And not just crappy TV with lots of annoying ads, I mean the same shows you watch on prime time, like Heros, House, and House Hunters *drool*. Not only that, it had could record all your shows even if 10 of them were playing at once, and it had unlimited storage space so you could wait a whole season so you could watch them all at once. And,… the kicker is that it was free?

If you hadn’t already heard of it, or seen it, you’d probably say bull. But it’s absolutely true. Now, let’s just say it doesn’t have quite enough for you. Which is reasonable, Hulu, doesn’t have quite as much as full cable TV package (I’ll explain why I’m comparing it to cable in a moment). There is another service out there that is even more well-known with a small cost.

netflix For $8.99 you can get unlimited DVD rentals. But what some people don’t know, is that the $8.99 also includes access to instant movies and tv shows to stream to your computer just like Hulu. While Hulu only has 1/5th of the commercials on cable, Netflix has none.

Now let’s say your favorite show isn’t available on DVD, you want to watch it now, but Hulu doesn’t carry it. Don’t forget that most major networks already stream full episodes online! Pushing Daisies isn’t available on Hulu, but the entire season is readily available on ABC.com.

Long story short, if you add the television content of Hulu, to the vast library of Netflix and the networks who provide shows online, you have access to way more entertainment than a Cable package could possibly provide, at a fraction of the cost. So, unless cable companies are going to change their structure anytime soon, I don’t see myself paying them hundreds of dollars a year to watch commercials.

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