"10 WAYS TO KEEP MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET" BY PAUL HABER (BACKSTAGE, JULY 30, 2009)

1. Use social networking websites to promote yourself or your project.

2. Use a good tax preparer: free tax advice at Volunteer Income Tax Assistant program (available through SAG and Equity).

3. Sell your electronics: Craigslist and http://www.gazelle.com

4. Cut the cord on your home phone

5. Dump your home Internet connection: "Starbucks, for instance, gives you two free hours of Internet a day through AT&T... all you need is a Starbucks drink card (not to be confused with a Starbucks credit card) with any amount on it. Register online and you're good to go.

6. Hold meetings at your house.

7. Barter

8. By used books and DVDs.

9. Get rid of your old analog TV: "LCD TV's use far less electricity. (But note that plasma TV's use more.)

10. Save tiny amounts whenever you can.