1) Instead of going out to dinner with friends, rotate having dinner parties with your friends. Healthier, cheaper, and you have more time to talk to each other.
2) Cut the cord to satellite or cable.
3) Meatless Mondays.
4) Many ethnic recipes are quite cheap to make and are better for you than the standard American dinners. Shop ethnic markets to save even more money.
5) Buying rice, beans, and flour in bulk can save money if kept tightly sealed.
6) Set a 5 minute timer for all showers and baths.
7) If you are waiting for water from a faucet to heat up or cool, keep a bowl or pan under the faucet and use the water for plants, cleaning, or heating to boil water for dinner.
8) Unplug all items that do not need to be constantly plugged in.
9) Sign up for ebates to get cash back on online purchases.
10) Share a netflix account with a friend or sibling or neighbor.
11) If you own a truck or a trailer, calculate if it is worth the money and gasoline to scavenge neighborhoods on large trash day and sell items for scrap metal or to take furniture, repurpose it, and sell on craigslist or at a garage sale.
12) Use your store rewards cards to download digital coupons.
13) Do not buy your kids new clothes for the summer. Used or free (even better) means it doesn't matter if they rip them or get paint on them. Simply turn them into rags for cleaning, or make rag strip rugs for sale on Etsy once they are worn out or outgrown.
14) Do not buy single serving snacks for your kids. You can make your own granola bars, or peanut butter cracker sandwiches, or single servings of chips or goldfish. Wash and reuse the plastic bags once they have been used.
2) Cut the cord to satellite or cable.
3) Meatless Mondays.
4) Many ethnic recipes are quite cheap to make and are better for you than the standard American dinners. Shop ethnic markets to save even more money.
5) Buying rice, beans, and flour in bulk can save money if kept tightly sealed.
6) Set a 5 minute timer for all showers and baths.
7) If you are waiting for water from a faucet to heat up or cool, keep a bowl or pan under the faucet and use the water for plants, cleaning, or heating to boil water for dinner.
8) Unplug all items that do not need to be constantly plugged in.
9) Sign up for ebates to get cash back on online purchases.
10) Share a netflix account with a friend or sibling or neighbor.
11) If you own a truck or a trailer, calculate if it is worth the money and gasoline to scavenge neighborhoods on large trash day and sell items for scrap metal or to take furniture, repurpose it, and sell on craigslist or at a garage sale.
12) Use your store rewards cards to download digital coupons.
13) Do not buy your kids new clothes for the summer. Used or free (even better) means it doesn't matter if they rip them or get paint on them. Simply turn them into rags for cleaning, or make rag strip rugs for sale on Etsy once they are worn out or outgrown.
14) Do not buy single serving snacks for your kids. You can make your own granola bars, or peanut butter cracker sandwiches, or single servings of chips or goldfish. Wash and reuse the plastic bags once they have been used.
