Quit Smoking and make $140,000
Vivienne’s Beauty & Style blog has some great tips for giving up smoking. What a great new year’s resolution! I quit about 5 years ago and now I find myself repulsed by it. I can hardly believe people still smoke! We all have our vices - I love red wine and icecream myself - but smoking is one vice that you miss out on NOTHING by giving up and gain everything.
With ciggies over $10 a packet in many stakes, a pack a day smoker spends $70 a week. Or $280 a month. Or $3640 a year. You could buy an original Louis Vuitton instead of a Canal St knockoff. Or travel the Siberian Railway or go to Tibet. Or you could take that $3640 and invest it for 10 years at 5% and you’d end up with $10,000.
If you added your $70 ciggie money each week to your $3640 next egg, in 10 years you’d end up with nearly $50,000. If you kept that up for 30 years, you’d have $250,000. If you do the math, you’re cash investment would be around $110,000. Just by giving up smoking and saving the money instead, you will have $140,000 for doing nothing. Pretty good, huh?
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