How our money experts save money, #7 in a series

I’ve started bringing my lunch to work a couple of times a week, which I hadn’t done in ages. This is easy in the summer because we like to grill on weekends and always seem to have stuff left over. Doing this probably saves $5 a day or so, not a lot of money, but something.

I’ve also put off replacing the 12-year-old car I drive to work each day, hoping to squeeze at least another year out of it. Ditto for my computer printer at home, which won’t do color anymore but manages a passable black-and-white.

In the failure department, I bought a bunch of those new all-cotton, no-iron shirts for work, figuring I’d save the cost of sending my shirts out. Unfortunately, I’ve found them about as comfortable as plastic wrap, at least in the summer. Once they wear out—and they seem to do that rather quickly—I’m going back to the old kind, even if it means learning how to use one of these.
—Greg Daugherty, executive editor and CR Money Adviser retirement columnist

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Comments

[Tom professional sales]

In regard to the non-iron cotton shirts. I too found the same situation to be true. UNTIL I found the professional shirts that last me more than 2 years... I never iron out of the wash and dryer (easy care settings): Roundtree & York Gold Label - I buy here in Florida at Dillards. Absoutely excellent shirts. Genuinely - I get compliments on how "sharp" the creases on the sleeves are... and that was a year after owning that shirt! On sale down from %50.00 / shirt usually get them for about $25-30 and they are worthy!!

The only other shirt to consider is the "Traveler" label I think it is called at Jos. A. Bank. But I have been told that the same mill shop produces both shirts. And even on sale J.A. Bank's shirts still push $40.00 - 50.00!

Good luck!