garbage bags, gluing carpet scraps to bottom of shoes when soles wear through, straighting and reusing bent nails, using inside of cartons and bags for writing paper, using and re-using tinfoil from food purchases, flushing toliet with used dishwater. Making quilts out of rags. Need more money saving ideas.
2006-11-12 08:05:43 · 6 answers · asked by victorschool1 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Personal Finance
Our check was lost in the mail and I had to save like you.
Use cereal inserts for sandwich bags, keep home no
lower than 64*, www.freecycle.org for free furniture,
make soup from dinner leftovers, look online for homemade
household cleaners, mayo for conditioner for hair, swap
items with friends, carpool, airdry clothes downstairs or
outside, after you take butter from paper, save in baggie
and use to coat pan, use towel instead of papertowels,
refill water bottle after rinsing, make soup and chile from
almost anything(Pot) and freeze for another meal. My sister
cooks all her meals on Sundays and just reheats. Go to
bed earlier, swap newspaper with neighbors and also use
garbage dumps when available. Swap babysitting with
neighbor instead of using sitter.good luck
2006-11-12 08:18:05 · answer #1 · answered by michelle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW!!! You could walk instead of driving. When you do drive always park at the back of the parking lot instead of near the place you are going to save the gas and also get more exercise. Use the wax paper bags that are in cereal boxes for food wrapping instead of buying wax paper. Use only a tiny bit of shampoo when washing your hair, it doesn't take a handful and your hair is better behaved too. Make food at home instead of buying convenience foods. Stretch some of these foods by adding rice. I've never heard of anyone that saves the way you do. It is good to save but you also should consider lifestyle. That is also important. After all you only live once. (I think)
2006-11-12 16:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by papricka w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a manual can opener to open all your cat food cans, you are going over the edge. You can save money and still be reasonable about your life. If you dont watch it you'll be one of those people you read about that died with 300 cats and 100K stuffed in trash bags.
2006-11-12 16:12:01 · answer #3 · answered by landersonjr1958 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
take your dish detergent and pour it into a jar fill the detergent bottle up with water and pour it into the dish water. And everytime after that put more water into your bottle add a drop or two of the detergent from the jar to the bottle and pour into the dish water. You will use less detergent and save money.
2006-11-12 16:10:11 · answer #4 · answered by He_Knows_Me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
save all your soap slivers in an old sock. sew up the sock and use in the shower. Change the sock periodically, you don't want to be nasty, just frugal. Put a couple of bricks in the toilet tank to save water.
2006-11-12 19:07:57 · answer #5 · answered by sexmagnet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gather ketchup packets from restaurants
Clip coupons
The biggest saver is to think all purchases through thoroughly before buying. So much is wasted on split second purchases.
2006-11-12 16:10:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋