Please pay for parking to avoid getting parking tickets.

Well, on the subject of saving money associated with your car there are ways to save on parking costs too.  

This is kind of a no-brainer but over the weekend I had to make a quick stop somewhere and I had no change so I decided to chance it by not putting anything in the meter for what I thought would be a quick trip to run a couple of errands.  I figured in the half our or so it took me to run my errands no one would come by to check the cars, particularly since it was Sunday. Well, I guessed wrong.   

It cost me $50 for the ticket. So in essence I tried to cheap out and avoid a $1.50 parking fee and would up paying $50 instead.  So instead of $ $0.05 per minute I paid $1.67 per minute.  Talk about negative ROI.