How can you lower your bills so you can do other things with your life besides work?

Question

How can you lower your bills so you can do other things with your life besides work?

Answer 1

Make a budget.  Record all your spending for a few months.  Then separate your expenditures into fixed costs, those expenses that have fixed payments in fixed amounts.  Then list variable expenses.  With that you can figure out what you can do without and what you can cut down on.

Answer 2

Some things that I have done: Cancel the landline phone, use only cell. Cancel cable. (Never really watched enough to make it worth the bill.)  

Answer 3

Try contacting some of the people that you owe money to and ask if you can work out a payment plan where you only pay a portion of the bill every so often.

Answer 4

Get a responsible roommate or move to cheaper housing.