What have you done today to save money?

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Uhmmm - I didn't go to town or get on ebay today

 

[thechickenchick]

Some days I do more to save than other days but let me go through my day.

Hung clothes on line.

Made homemade pickled eggs with my own eggs of course!

Made potato salad from my own eggs and also potatoes and onions grown in my garden.

Asked son to hang out in town with a friend after school to save a trip to town. DH will pick him up on his way home from work.

Yesterday I traded a rooster for a huge box of fresh home grown corn, and tonight we are having some for supper.

Made baked beans from scratch instead of buying them, much cheaper, and yummier!

Froze some peas and carrots from the garden.

So much of what I do is habit and I really have to stop and think about it!

 

[kees]

Told my daughter to close the refrigerator instead of standing in front of it to cool her body!

Suzy

 

[Funky Feathers]

Ummm, I only bought a few things from each place I went shopping. Normally I would go crazy! Lol!

 

[journey11]

I bought two whole pork loins at Sam's for $1.38 /lb. (cheapest I've got 'em in a long time) and had them sliced to repackage and freeze.

 

[Sitka]

I used a paper towel as a coffee filter. I first did it in a pinch a few months ago when I ran out of filters, but then realized it does the same job and haven't bought filters since.

 

[StupidBird]

I switched from those bottled shower gels to bar soap, and as the 3 boys' supplies run out, I'll see if replacing those with bar soaps will work. I swear they're addicted to that super-scented stuff.

Running the gas tank to empty sucks in any impurities or water in the fuel that sink to the bottom of the tank. My husband works for an engine company and told me this, yet plays the I Can Make It Further game every time.

Help this by changing the fuel filter more often, also trying not to fill up during or immediately after big storms - in case the station's tank got contaminated. Also use busy stations for fresher fuel.
In addition, I get the oil changed right on every 3,000 as I can. I guess I should switch to synthetic - it worked great on the little car (I would've gotten 250,000 miles on it as I have previous vehicles if it hadn't been totaled) - but is awful pricey to do with a big ol' truck. I change the air filters myself if I remember, but have the shop do it if I'm too busy. It's better than not doing it and messing up the engine. I used to do all that maintenance myself but bad shoulder and a post-1967 vehicle...

I'm searching for the manual for the old riding mower bought last year, it runs fine and I want to keep it that way with out paying $100+++ for annual maintenance at the shop.

After reading all the "I baked bread" posts, I did it too. Downside: it is too good for diabetics and allergics to control themselves around.

Dinner is always "what goes well with --- that we have too much of in the garden?" Last night was a salad of grilled and chopped eggplant, sweet banana peppers, loads of garlic and basil, plus salt, pepper, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Plus grilled beef from the steer in the freezer. Sent leftovers off with the guys for their lunches, the beef cubed on top, plus leftover green bean salad and some store-bought canned pears. I use a Nalgen bottle frozen with water and air space to cool their lunch boxes. And send DS to classes with his coffee thermos too. Hot coffee + instant hot cocoa mix = cappicino-like drink.

I bought the pork loins on sale too, spiced and cooked, sliced cold real thin on the machine and froze in batches for healthy, cheap lunch meat.

The internet is great for recipes for the garden stuff when I can't think of something new to do with green beans, squash, tomatoes, peppers or whatever we have on hand.

I don't think we're SAVING money with the chickens directly, but indirect benefits of therapy and entertainment???

 

[Feathered Wings]

Saved hundreds on clothes for my kids over the years because we never follow whats in.
They got new clothes at the beginning of the school year and they wore those all year.
I have never followed trends or fashion i buy what we could afford.
We had our nice outfits for when it called for them to be dressed nicely.
We only bought clothes when neccesary not when this or that became out of or in style.
My youngest is 17 and he now has a job and buys his own clothes and yes he still buys the bargains.

We had a wood stove put in 16 years ago and have saved thousands on heating.
We get our wood for free removing unwanted trees in peoples yards.

I trade for chickens and birds so no money has to be spent.
You can generally find someone willing to trade

 

[skeeter03]

I can lots of food - specially my own if there is extra
we buy half a cow and put it in the freezer every year - more money up front but at a 1.50 a lb you cant lose
our own chickens
kids clothes are usually whatever is cheapest and I buy stuff on sale through out the year.
Hydro- we keep low come on put a sweater on
we buy our wood for the woodstove by the logging truck load - instead of going back and forth in the bush a bunch of times - should last us over 3 years and we heat our home with wood exclusivly.
Groceries- make alot of my own snacks - and well we just have a budget and we dont get more after the budget is spent (but I'm like a chipmunk I have lots stored in my house could live a month off of it) groceries is twice a month cept for milk and fruit and veges thats once a week.
We very rarely eat out and if we do its usually just fastfood on a reno day
we do all of our own renos and building/fixing up with the help of brothers and friends
I go to town very little cause every time you go into a store to pick up a something you spend more then you should.
lots of little things to save money here and there
I over budget all my bills - round up to the nearest 10 so that after awhile there is some extra money in the account for a day out with the kids or something special.
also we dont have a entertainment budget either - kids can use their imagination and make up games - we spend alot of time at the creek.
The list goes on and on

 

[junebug7334]

barter all the time! NEVER use my clothes dryer!!!!!!!!!!!