The Secret to Living Well on $20,000 a Year

I like articles like this in Yahoo! Finance. I use them to get ideas about where I can cut corners. I was able to live pretty comfortably last year at around 30-some K. Now that I'm making more, I see that I'm starting to splurge a bit, so have to be careful. I'm putting money in my 401K again, and saving for unforseen expenses. We went to Chicago yesterday for the opera and ate at a BYOB wine place. For $38 we had a great meal for 2 and leftovers (in the old days we would have spent well over $100). Plus, my Yaris fit into a small parking space some behemoth of a car tried to get into. Another reason to get a cheap, small car. :)