I don’t buy organic anymore.
I don’t buy my favourite bottled water anymore.
I try to stop impulse buying. By focusing on my savings and why I want savings.
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I don’t buy snacks and I don’t buy fast food meals. I’m a creature of habit, but now I think I have that impulse under control. When we go to town I buy my lunch from the Dollar Tree, so that it rarely costs more than three dollars. Lately I have been buying protein shakes and candy to kill my appetite before lunch. That way I’m full and not tempted by buy my lunch at Burger King. Money evaporates when you can’t control your casual spending. I buy my clothes at thrift stores, and I am very judicious about the food I buy. I feel like I am eating as well as the rest of the people here.
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I’m taking the collision off of my vehicle this summer. It has reached the age (six years) where the depreciation is enough that I won’t get enough back anyhow. My wife wants me to keep collision coverage on her vehicle.
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I put out an inquiry in a local group on nextdoor.com when I first moved to town and found three other families in my neighbourhood that wanted to participate. We each take turns driving to the city to save on gas. Everybody eTransfers to the person who is buying the groceries before they go out shopping (we know the cost from reading prices online). Everyone gets a copy of the final bill when we divvy up and we make adjustments for who owes what the following week.
It’s a bit of work but we’re saving thousands per year per family.
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WOW!!! @shutterbug !!! I’m so impressed!!! Way to be super proactive! Thanks for the tip!
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Here’s where we do the bulk of our shopping:
They’re a walk-in restaurant supplier that also sells to the public. You can shop and order online. The staff will shop for you and have everything ready for pickup, which is the route we go. If you look at their meat selection you’ll see that you can buy large chunks of ribeye, etc., and cut them yourself. I’m the one with the meat-cutting training so I do that for the group. I return the items vacuum sealed - they repay me for my supplies every so often. For example, you can save up to 75% by cutting your own steaks over buying them retail.
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When something breaks and I can’t afford to pay somebody to fix it or to replace it. I Google YouTube and see if anybody’s posted a good video on how to repair it or fix it and save a lot of the cost of paying a professional.
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I just save 10 bucks. Five dollar pizza, and cut up some onions and olives and green peppers. I just caught it before it burned.
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Here’s a good article on shaving your grocery bill. I do hit the store every couple of days to look for just about to expire veggies that are 50% off. Great for soups.
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Yeah, I put a huge hole in my wall, about 7 or 8 inches in diameter. I looked up “drywall repair” and discovered I could buy a “drywall repair kit” on Amazon for about $12.00. I bought some spackle for $5.00 and some touch up paint and paint brushes and fixed the hole myself so the apartment manager won’t have the maintenance man repair a whole wall. In fact she never found out about the hole, I could have got a warning letter for punching that hole but she’s none the wiser.
And about 4 months ago I broke my house key off in the lock to the front door. I did a little research and discovered they sell “key extraction tools.” I bought a set at Walmart and got the broken half of the key out myself with a $10 key extraction kit. A locksmith around here would have charged $75-$150 to do it. Not only that, coincidentally my sister had just broken a key off in her side door to her house.at that time. I saved her a $100 by going over her house with my kit and getting the broken key out for her.
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I have been sick all week and wound up ordering a teriyaki beef rice bowl for supper two nights ago as I just didn’t have the energy to cook. It cost me $14. The food cost of making it was about $2 if I had made it myself.
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Wow thats expensive i try to spend at most 10 dollars when eating out if i buy groceries i end up spending 50-60 $ on ingrediants for a meal somehow along with a few additional things yesterday i got pizza hut for 12 dollars and its fed me three times
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I think i just need to make cheaper meals
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I am saving money by cutting things out of our budget. For example, I quit weight watchers which was 2o.99 a month and switched to MyFitnessPal where I do the free version. Instead of paying $57.00 a month for pet insurance I save the money for if my kittens get sick.
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Cancelled Netflix. I found I was rarely using it and I have Amazon Prime Video and Roku TV anyways and I watch YouTube more than anything else. Saving $15.99 a month which is almost $200 a year.
I try not to eat out as often and when I do 90% of the time it is with a coupon or using a deal on their app.
I have a bad soda habit but switched it up by buying Crystal Light on sale which is about half the price of soda so I drink both the soda and the Crystal Light.
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That is cool. Was the hole in a really visible. I am really scared now as years ago my neighbor plumbed in a new sink in our garage. I took it on my self to cover up all the drywall and the plumbing was not deep enough in the wall that I had to patch. I just screwed in new drywall where I could and spackled all over. The house is for sale now and I hope it does not become an issue with the home inspection or somthing as there is a huge hump in the wall. The good thing is that it is completely hidden behind the water heater.
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Yeah, it was in a highly visible place. The hole was the first thing that caught your eye when you walked into my room.
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Is Crystal Light that carbonated and flavored water they sale at a lot of Walmart’s? You got me interested in this. I’m also thinking about cancelling Netflix. It would save me 10 dollars a month, which after 10 months is 100$. Plus most of the content on it sucks.
@shutterbug I eat most of my meals at home. I very rarely buy coffee out. I make all my hot and cold coffee drinks at home.
I try to buy in bulk. Like boxes of Ramen, 24 packs of soda etc.
I only pay for one streaming service, but that might go soon.
Foodstamps are a blessing and huge help.
Every month I try to set aside a certain amount of money that I won’t touch or spend and that goes towards savings.
I buy most of my clothes at the thrift shop.
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Very cool! I don’t have anything like that near me where they sell bulk for deals like that. But I love the concept.
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No, it comes in a powdered form and makes juice. You can find canisters with six packets inside for $3.50 if you’re lucky. Each packet makes two liters. Some of the flavors are orange, fruit punch, grape, lemonade, raspberry lemonade, and cherry pomegranate.
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