Why can’t US money be all colorful and interesting? Anyway, today I was reading an interesting post on Techcrunch about LaLa.com rolling out a free streaming music service. I checked it out and fell in love with the concept. If you haven’t heard of it, their core functionality is CD swapping (think P2P Netflix for music). I dig music and typically purchase several CDs a month. Instead of paying $10-$15 per CD, I could use LaLa and get new music for $1.75/album in exchange for trading some old discs that are just gathering dust on my shelf. That’s a good $30 a month I could save – sweet!
I started thinking about my newfound extra cash and thought about how many other money-saving services are out there. Which leads to today’s idea. It’s a site where you can enter in the amount of money you pay each month for various catagories (music, movies, phone, TV, web hosting, video games, etc..), and it would return a list of websites that could help you save money, along with the total monthly savings. Here’s an example of how it might work:
- Music – $40
- Movies – $20 rental, $25 theater
- Phone – $30
- TV – $50 (stupid Comcast!)
- Web hosting – $10 (I heart GoDaddy)
- Video Games – $15
And here would be a sample result
- Music – LaLa.com (save $30)
- Movies – Netflix starter package (save $5)
- Phone – Skype + headset (save $40)
- TV – www.tv-links.co.uk (save $50 - can be used to pay your pending legal bills)
- Web hosting – GAFYD/Office Live (save $10)
- Video Games – No savings here (GameFly would show up if costs were over $20)
Total savings: $135/month
What do you guys think? Let’s hear from you…yes, I’m talking to you…put down that turkey leg and gimme some comments.
