How Effective are you at Cost Savings?? Take the QUIZ!!!

my score is 66

My score 77.
Seems I am pretty kanjoos person!!!

Originally Posted by ananyakapoor

my score is 66

Good Score Dear

Originally Posted by Priya_Mommy

My score 77.
Seems I am pretty kanjoos person!!!

Hey...come on....I dont think anyscore below 80 is kanjoos...and moreover kanjoos is not the right word here I guess because this quiz is all about how we use our resources that are in our hand...how effective are we!!!

its indeed a good score...

Ok Ladies. I had my husband take the quiz to see if he was cheaper than me. He thinks he's very cost conscious. I didn't tell him my score before hand. He takes the quiz and pops a 67. I then tell him my score of 75 and I kid him all night about how I guess he needs to be a little more cost conscious! He kept saying that I must have answered the questions wrong. Right! Now I guess I am entitled to that handbag that he never wants me to buy! Just love it! He says he's going to take it again tonight because maybe he didn't answer all the questions the way he should.....Pleeeeeaase!

Originally Posted by Cali233

He says he's going to take it again tonight because maybe he didn't answer all the questions the way he should.....Pleeeeeaase!

woww.....reallyyyyy funnyyanyways lets see how much he scores the second time..i dont think the scores would fluctuate sooo much

This is going to give you a big laugh. So my husband takes the quiz again and I can see the seriousness in his face. He's going to beat me, but he says, and I believed him, that he will answer them correctly and truthfully. After 5 minutes, he gets his new score. I wanted to copy it to this post, but he closed the browser before he went.

His new score 68!

I had to hold back the chuckles. Still cheaper than him and I'm going to get myself that purse! He even gave me a little props for running our house efficiently. Get your husbands to take it ladies.

Anyways, Thanks SriVidya75 and thanks to those people at LiveCheap!

Originally Posted by Cali233

I'm going to get myself that purse! He even gave me a little props for running our house efficiently. Get your husbands to take it ladies.

hey good thing!! Enjoy your new purse

I got a score of 72. Lol ..I need to save more to get the score of 80 at least.

In school and colleage days, i used to feel bad if I get any score less than 80 in any subject.

Originally Posted by vids

They did have an option "New Car? I only buy used" -- I chose that 'coz the only car we have in the US is a used one

That option seems to have been added recently as it was certainly not available when I took the quiz a few days ago.

Originally Posted by tashidelek2002

Its my understanding from a cost comparison I saw some years ago that the cheapest long term car purchase is to buy a new one and then run it into the ground. You get several years of no maintenance that makes this possible. I currently am driving my mom's car that I inherited from her: a 90 Toyota station wagon with 28k miles on it and in mint condition. Insurance including collision is $300 a year.

There are different opinions on this. Many experts (including Thomas Stanley, author of "The Millionaire Next Door") state that it is cheapest to buy a gently-used, low-mileage, 3-yr-old car and then run the vehicle into the ground. A new car depreciates the second that you drive it off the lot and the depreciation is steepest in the first three years of life. If you buy a well-maintained, low-mileage, 3-yr-old car, you avoid depreciation, have few (if any) maintenance issues, but still have a lot of years left on the vehicle, which, in time, may turn out to be the cheapest possible option.