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TRICK PEOPLE OBSESSED WITH BRAND-NAMES
My spouse is all about brand-names. He desires Tide – nothing else. Tide is $12 a bottle & Purex is like $7. When they are out of ‘Tide', I go buy Purex & pour it in the Tide bottle. They have had the same bottle of ‘Tide' for about 7 months. They modify packaging now & then so occasionally I still require to buy the actual stuff.
THE ZEN OF CONSUMPTION
Don't buy over you can use; use everything you buy.
HOST A SWAP PARTY WITH FRIENDS
Trade with friends. Hold a swap & give away stuff while you dig through someone else's stuff, . FREE rocks!Financial Forums - Investing, Personal Finance |Finance Online Forums! http://www.financial-ol.com/
KILL YOUR CABLE
Cut loose that sacred cow of budgets: your cable TV. Use sites like www.hulu.com & watch shows on network sites for FREE. Sign up for www.redbox.com & get one free film on Monday. Every week. For FREE.
STICK PENS IN MICROWAVE TO GET LAST INK
When your pen ceases to write, it probably still has a great deal of ink in it that is stuck temporarily. in lieu of throwing it out, stick your pen in the microwave for 10 seconds to get that ink walking again.
BECOME A HAGGLE-MONSTER
Negotiate everything! You have got the money, & they have the service. So always ask if that is the best they can do. I have had plenty of success with the cable company, & when purchasing things at large box electronics store. At J Crew the other day, I revealed they offered student discounts. So my advice is to always try to negotiate. My next target: Verizon Wireless.
PRICEBOOKING
Rough pricebooking. I do know, I do know, frugal types keep actual cost books & note the tiniest fluctuations from store to store on every product. I don't have that kind of time. In lieu, I look to general indicator products I buy often & plenty of stores over in order to gauge which stores are usually the best deal. For example, Kraft Mac & Cheese fluctuates in my area between 50c & 75c a box, but there's one stores of the same chain near me, & one has it between 50 & 60 cents & the other between 65 & 75 cents. Stores in more prosperous areas often jack up prices, so it is worth keeping an eye on that kind of thing.
CREDIT CARDS ONLY IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Credit cards are only for money not on hand, not on-the-spot loans. Use them online, use them in stores in lieu of carrying money, but don't rack up charges you cannot immediately cover. Don't assume that the money will come, because you seldom know when catastrophe will hit as well as a job will be lost, a automobile will require sudden repair, or a medical bill might hit.
DON'T BUY KIDS' CLOTHES NEW
Do not buy kid's clothes, kid clothes, first-hand unless they are a gift or some kind of special memento.
do-it-yourself OR DIE 4EVA
When feasible, make in lieu of buying. But don't be suckered in to spending a fortune on craft tools you don't require. For basic home crafts like knitting, sewing, etc., you can basically get away with a couple of bucks on cheap supplies & tools & then delight your relatives & friends with home-made gifts.
do-it-yourself EYE GLASSES LENS CLEANER:
mix 50/50: Rubbing Alcohol & Sterile or Deionized Water. Pour in to travel hand pump containers.
Eye glasses lens cleaner is 2.99 for 4-oz. Definite, soap & water works, but not if you are our-doors or when it is not available. This recipe is so cheap, & it works great.
CHEAP TEA
When I make a pot of tea (after letting it steep) I pour a cup of tea & then refill the pot again with more hot water (leaving the tea bags in place to continue steeping).
CHEAP WARMTH
It was a long, brutal winter. In lieu of cranking up the thermostat on icy nights my husband & I invested in a nice electric blanket.
GET THIS BOOK
Borrow a duplicate of "The Tightwad Gazette" by Amy Dacyczyn from your local public library. Read, mark, learn & inwardly digest. You may even be able to pick up a free copy from Freecycle.org (another useful site forsaving money & doing nice).
BRUSH WITHOUT TOOTHPASTE
Tidy your teeth with a combination of salt & baking soda. Doesn't taste as nice as toothpaste, but is less expensive & better for your gums (my late husband was a dentist & I owe this one to him – they died at age 89 with all his teeth in his head!)
TURN DOWN THE HEAT
Turn down the thermostat on your water heater. 120 deg F is hot & you save a lot by not heating to 140 deg. F.
BUY A $5 ROTISSERIE CHICKEN
My spouse & I buy a $5 rotisserie chicken from the store ($3 if it is one day elderly), & eat the white meat for a dinner. Next, they pick off all the meat they can, & cook the skin, bones, etc in a stockpot or pressure cooker. This garners about 2 quarts of amazing broth, which freezes well. $5 can make the basis for 6 meals in our household.
Even cheaper is frozen chicken, but who has the time!
do-it-yourself BROTH
Making your own broth or stock needs a comeback. They currently have 4 quarts of broth in our freezer, and a gallon of chicken soup made from some other broth, in addition to 2 quarts of chili, all in Foodsaver bags.
SAVE BY DELAYING
Think about the future: most new release movies are between $18-20, wait a couple months & most will drop to $10-12. Walmart's $5 bin!
The obvious one: In case you don't NEED it, or you can live without it, then don't buy it, at least right now. Wait on it & see how badly you require it, & when you have a tiny additional, go for it. That way you are not spending on impulse, you know you require it & it will be worth the money.
DON'T BUY PRE-CUT FRUITFinancial Forums - Investing, Personal Finance |Finance Online Forums! http://www.financial-ol.com/
Don't buy pre-cut fruit, buy the whole fruit. You save a couple dollars every time.
EDITED BLUE-CHEESE DRESSING
In case you like blue cheese dressing, but find the cost in grocery stores a bit much ( a bit blue cheesy), do what plenty of restaurants do- cut it with mayonnaise. A regular sized blue cheese dressing cut with equal amount of regular mayonnaise will literally double the amount you get, & the flavor is much better. I reuse elderly mayo containers to mix a batch up each time I buy a brand spanking new blue cheese dressing.
REFILL YOUR OWN HOT SAUCE
Also, if you are a fan of the hot sauce with the whole peppers in vinegar, you can basically replace the vinegar 5 or 6 times with regular white vinegar, & stash in it the fridge for a few days. The lead to the exact same thing, less $3 for a brand spanking new bottle.
do-it-yourself PAPER TOWELS
I saved a quantity of the cardboard tubes from paper towel rolls. I bought one yards of white cotton flannel (about $8) & cut it in to paper-towel-sized squares. I did a rapid zigzag stitch around the edges of each one (cutting & sewing took about one hours total) & rolled them up onto the tubes. I use them for anything you'd use a papertowel for. When they are dirty, I wash them in hot water with bleach, dry them in the dryer without a dryer sheet (so they will be more absorbent) & roll them onto another tube. I'll seldom buy paper towels again. Cheap, & better for the environment, I think.
TREAT STAINS RIGHT AWAY
Use stain treatment sprays to prolong the life of your clothes. Treat stains right away. Laziness will lose your fave shirt….
PLAN YOUR MEALS
Plan your menu for at least one week at a time. This will prevent you from over-buying. Planning accounts for every penny.
do-it-yourself BREAD
Make your own bread. Not only will you feel tremendous accomplished, but your bread will taste better than anything you can buy. Seriously….store bought bread sucks….Some to my house & have a quantity of my bread. It is going to make you slap your momma & leave home.
CLOTHESLINE
Use a clothesline. If for nothing else, then denims & towels which take FOREVER in the dryer. Saves me about $50 a month.
SERGE YOUR SOCKS
My husband buys long tube socks for work. When his safety shoes' metal toe causes holes in the toe of the sock, they asks me to serge (sew & cut) the toe section off. When they finally become short as anklets, they then makes use of them for rags in the garage. I have been doing this for him for the last 20 years.
do-it-yourself WHITENING TOOTHPASTE
In lieu of a whitening mouthwash, use a 50/50 mixture of hydrogen peroxide ($1.99/32 oz bottle) & water.
USE FARMER'S MARKETS
I like to go to farmers' markets & hunt for deals on definite foods that when bought in moderate bulk can be cheap. Also, in case you get to know the vendors they will often give you a deal in case you come back week after week. Trader Joe's is nice . I fundamentally don't buy any prepared foods whether it is fresh or frozen. That can drive up the cost.http://www.financial-ol.com/thread-13588-1-1.html
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