A Little Joke With a Lot of Wisdom

January 10, 2009 by Chelsea
Filed under Frugality, Piggy Bank

I’m paraphrasing this joke as I can’t find the original source.

A man arrives home sweating and out of breath.
His wife asks “What took you so long to get home?”
“I ran behind the bus the whole way home. I saved $2.00 in bus fares.”
“That’s nothing”, his wife replied. “Last week I saved $15.00 by running behind the cab.”

The moral of the lesson is that it’s really not how much you saved, but how much you spent or didn’t spend. That’s why I don’t pay too much attention to my receipts when they say what percentage I’ve saved. The only numbers I care about is the total amount and that it fit within my budget.

Moneysavingmom has a similar guest post about this topic.