Today in Radical Personal Finance we talk about how to decrease your expenses, how to build

and use a price book to save you money in the short term and the long term and perhaps most importantly to train your frugal muscles for a lifetime

of getting more for less. Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now

while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. My name is

Joshua and I am your host and today we're going to be very, very practical, continuing our quest of helping you to save money

by talking about price books. I can explain to you what a price book is, talk about the benefits of having

one, how to build one and share with you some of the surprising results of my own

work in this area.

I've stated recently several times that one of my goals for 2018 is to cut our grocery budget,

our family grocery budget substantially.

My personal target is to see if I can trim out about 2,000 bucks this year off of the money

that we spend in groceries.

Little hard to track sometimes,

because of course we have a pantry,

and I don't have it exactly perfectly figured out.

But that's kind of the mental goal in my head.

I'm going to trim a couple thousand bucks out of our

grocery budget and knock this thing out of the park. In order to do so, I have to go back to the fundamentals. I have to go back to the basics

and pick up some of those things that I have let go. And I think, frankly,

this is something that we find in many areas of our life. When we get out of shape,

we have to go back to the fundamentals. When we start getting fat, let's say that you were fat and then you got

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