The woman decided on drastic methods of saving.
A young American saved about 30 thousand dollars, eating leftovers. Finance professional, Amanda Holden did not disdain to eat the remains of their colleagues and even rummaging through dumpsters in search of food. Collected over 8 months of saving amount woman spent a year traveling through South America, then returned to the States and began a new career as a life coach.
To quit my job and start a new life? Why not! But first it would be nice to save a certain amount. It is a decision made Amanda Holden, a 32-year-old financier from Portland, Oregon.
If before Amanda went to work as an ordinary clerk, and spent for daily meals a lot of money, then one day she decided to eat leftovers that are in abundance were left in the afternoon her colleagues at the office and workers in neighbouring buildings.
Amanda earned the nickname dustbin, after colleagues noticed her eating a half-eaten burrito out of the trash. But a nickname the woman was not embarrassed.
Previously, Amanda spent a lot of money and partying. Sometimes she hung out with every day. But at the age of 27 years, Amanda realized that she has no savings and she definitely needs to change jobs: career in Finance didn’t make her happy. In search of life change, Amanda decided to save the money. She set a goal — in a period of 6 months to collect 20 thousand dollars.
“I worked in an office with many people, so the excess food was almost always. I openly spoke about his idea to colleagues, and many have supported me. I had finished what was left of the staff. If someone ate half of the pizza, I told you not to throw away the remains and give them to me. However, there were times when I didn’t find any leftovers and I had to still buy food. But it was the exception.”
The savings on food led to a change of a lifestyle. Amanda admits that never was a big fan of shopping, although she as a woman the first time was very hard to do without cosmetics. The next source of savings has been a shift from spending on entertainment, although this too was Amanda, she always considered myself a very sociable person. After the failure of entertainment followed by spending cuts to beauty salons and gym. And yet, oddly enough, a decent amount she saved, ceasing to buy an expensive coffee in coffee shops.
As a result for 8 months Amanda was able to save 30 thousand dollars (more than 1 million 700 thousand rubles). When the woman wrote the application about dismissal at own will, her boss looked at her and asked, is it because it’s called Garbage can, she eats out of the trash? “The boss said saw with my own eyes as I pulled out of the trash half-eaten burrito. However, then we just laughed about it,” recalls Amanda.
Amanda left her job in Finance, flew to Mexico, and then spent a year traveling in Latin America on the money saved.
Today Amanda Holden has a blog and teaches how to live frugally, but stay happy. Her goal is to make people more frugal. But it is not necessarily as it is, to start with climbing in the garbage cans, chuckling, says the woman.
