When Marissa and Philip Farhat sliced and diced eight of their nine credit cards — with one literally left on ice for emergency purposes — in favor of using cash for their purchases, the couple hoped to save money.
One family swaps credit cards for cash and saves thousands.

“We haven’t had very many luxuries this month. The groceries and the necessities is what we’ve spent our money on, which is good. We don’t need all the other stuff,” Phillip said.

After 30 days, the pair calculated their spending decreased 24 percent when compared to the previous month.

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