Comments on: Tip #24: Cut your commute expenses by 40%

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30 Tips That Can Save Your Money This Month — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:24:15 +0000

[...] the 30 Day Challenge (plus, see how I’m doing) Tip #23: Go cash only for 15 to 30 days Tip #24: Cut your commute expenses by 40% Tip #25: Earn more money using your God-given skills Tip #26: Gardender? Cleaning lady? DIY instead [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:16:49 +0000

This is off the specific topic, however, quoting from the article:

“Just remember, your boss doesn’t care about you — he cares about how much you can (1) help the company and (2) make him look good. Frame your request accordingly.”

This is so true, and should always be kept in mind in all work contexts/business relationships. I’m sure our bosses/companies do care to some degree, but realistically, this in the basis of our relationships in the first place. It goes both ways too – I do care about my boss/co-workers personally, but if I wasn’t being paid anymore… Anyway, keeping this in the forefront of our minds makes us better employees, and should always be the basis of anything you ask from the boss.

By: Margo

Margo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:00:22 +0000

@Andrew:
I don’t know Steve, but I commuted on a bike for about six months last year and will probably start up again as soon as the frost quits. My office is business casual (I wear slacks and dress shirts with heels every day). I brought my clothes in a backpack (strapped to a bike rack with bungee cords – wearing a backpack is no fun when it’s warm out). My trip was only 4 miles each way, so I didn’t need to shower when I arrived at work, but now I live about 12 miles away – my employer has shower facilities available.

By: Lise

Lise — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:30:46 +0000

I’m not sure why I have’t commented on this post before, but I should have: my husband and I carpool almost every day. He works about 30 minutes farther away than I do, but he drops me off and picks me up at work on the way to and from his own job.

I love it. It’s a great arrangement, and not just financially. For one, we have a time everyday where we can talk, with few distractions. Secondly, it’s a great excuse to not stay at the office late. “Sorry, gotta go, my husband’s in the car outside.”

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:26:06 +0000

@Jennifer — you wrote, “…we would have to pay full price for a bus pass. I’m not sure if that is cheaper than just buying gas every few weeks or not.”

It might not be — but you would also be saving wear and tear on your car, and possibly you’d save on your insurance — I get a %15 discount because I drive so little during a year. I also don’t have to pay for parking or tolls, but maybe working at a university you park free.

I work about the same distance from home that you do. I take the bus every day and I love it. If I were you, I’d add up the numbers and see if it’s worth a try. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

By: James

James — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:18:49 +0000

I’ll chime in about working from home, since people who haven’t tried it so often have a rosy picture of what it’s like.

For some people it’s heaven. Glorious idea.

For others though, it’s hell. Infinitely destructive.

I think a hybrid approach–where you work some in the office, some at home, maybe some at coffee shops, etc.–is ideal. But consider the case of a completely decentralized team (multiple cities/states/countries) building something NON-web 2.0 (yes, brick and mortar entrepreneurship still exists!). Your team saves money on commute, but everyone slowly goes insane from lack of communication, collaboration, camaraderie, connection, and any other c word you can come up with.

In that case, they lose a huge amount of money given their decrease in productivity.

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By: ngk

ngk — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:59:22 +0000

I take public transit (100% paid for by my employer), so no costs to cut there. My job also has an option of at least 1 day a week telecommuting for anyone with more than a year’s seniority. We can also work compressed schedules (9-hour days, instead of so that we can take off one day every two weeks. (For example, I take every other Friday off).

After reading some of the tips, I’m now tempted to use my free Friday for some freelancing – maybe tutoring.

By: Ramit Sethi

Ramit Sethi — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:27:43 +0000

Talk about missing the point of the post.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:12:27 +0000

You lost me at Al Gore. He is a fraud and expends more energy by far than most people. Far worse than his hypocritical lifestyle is his preaching and finger wagging to all of us little people while he makes millions selling carbon credits to people stupid enough to try to assuage thier guilt by paying him for their sins of using energy.