Saving for a House Deposit Tips/Tricks/Advice

[Joeve]

We use a whiteboard where we write down every thing we spend for a month. (We do this 2 or 3 times a year). Its amazing how accountable you get for a $2 snack when you have to write it down! Its small stuff but usually you can see a couple of things that may be able to be trimmed back a bit to save some $$$.

[OceanPrincess]

We use a whiteboard where we write down every thing we spend for a month. (We do this 2 or 3 times a year). Its amazing how accountable you get for a $2 snack when you have to write it down! Its small stuff but usually you can see a couple of things that may be able to be trimmed back a bit to save some $$$.

We did that. I carried a notebook with me to write everything down. Then DH and I would go through it all each week or so.