I've been reading and researching lots of articles about how to live on half of your take home pay. My goal is to do this and to donate the other half of my take home pay. I live on about 64% of my take home pay now, but I would need to cut about $300 more from my monthly budget to get to 50% and then I still need to put some money into savings so I'm not sure how to do that and donate half of my take home pay. I figure I might be able to do this in 3 to 5 years if I am strict and disciplined enough to not take on any more debt and to pay off all credit cards, etc. Of course in three to five years I would be making more money, hopefully, so I wouldn't have to shave as much as $300 off. I hope. I've been reading this book called Giving is the Good Life: The Unexpected Path to Purpose and Joy by Randy Alcorn and it is inspiring me to try to get there, to the 50% mark. I know it sounds kind of crazy but I have a charity that I am passionate about and I donate quite a bit of my money to, and I would like to be able to do this. It's just going to take some work to get there.