Trimming your everyday budget can add up to a sizable savings. by Jeff Yeager|Comments: 0. Yellow Dog Productions/Getty Images. 1. Lunches Out Brown-bag your lunch every day at work and you could easily save $25 per week. That's a savings of about $1,300 per year, or more than $50,000 over a 40-year career! 1 of 11.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, the average cost of auto insurance in 2013 was $841 per year, or approximately $70 per month.1 Keep in mind that this is a ballpark figure based on nationally collected data; depending on your situation, it could be more or less.
The average car insurance rate in Texas is $1,510 a year. Your age, your driving record, the model of car you have, the severity and frequency of claims in your neighborhood and other variables are used by insurance companies to figure out the cost of your policy.