I was helping my cousin restructure his company and trying to come up with different ways for him to cut his operating costs. I had already helped him to switch his internet and cable providers and we even found a company that lowered his insurance by about four hundred dollars a year. He was excited about all of the changes that we were making.

I then contacted a friend of mine that sold discount office supplies and asked her if she thought that she could beat the prices that my friend was currently paying. My friend asked me which company that he was currently using for his office supplies and when I told her, she laughed. She told me that my cousin’s current company was the most expensive office supplies company out there.

After changing over to the discount office supplies company that my friend owned, we figured that by making all of the changes that we had, my cousin was going to save at least one thousand dollars every month. He was excited to think that it would probably be just enough to help him to stay in business. If they economy started to turn around and business picked up then that would also help a lot.