The Four Moms:Raising Olives, Life in a Shoe, Smockity Frocks and and Me
This week we are sharing some of our favorite frugal tips.
Here are ten of mine:
This week we are sharing some of our favorite frugal tips.
Here are ten of mine:
1. Just because your kid is now 16, you do not have to let that 16 y.o.. get a driver's license. Our 16 y.o. has her permit, and this has saved us about three to four hundred dollars a year. If she didn't even have a permit, we'd save even more.=)
2. Drink water. You don't have to have cokes, kool-ade, juice, and other flavored beverages. It's cheaper and much healthier to skip the juice. Some people even skip coffee.
3. Use cash instead of plastic. There are people who use plastic but pay it off each month because the plastic offers benefits, like a percentage back, or points toward goodies. Credit card companies do this because they understand the behavior mentioned in this post. Be sure that you're not making it worth their while to give you those bennies. Do the math carefully (the link explains some info you should know to make a fully informed decision).
4. You know how a stitch in time saves nine? If you can sew or iron on patches to the inside knees of little boys jeans, the knees just might last more than one boy.
5. Make it from scratch. You would be surprised at the things you can make yourself.
6. Use baking soda instead of shampoo. While you're at it, clean your face with oil
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7. We finally worked out a home-made dishwaster soap recipe that we really like. It's cheaper than storebought, and it works just as well, and in many cases, better.
8. Recognize the difference between self-improvement and spending. Many of us seek the first through the latter.
9. Change your thinking and your attitudes about what is necessary, fair, what you deserve. The most important frugal tool you can have is not the income you bring in, but the way you think about what you need and what you want- your own mindset and attitude.
10. tithe. If you're a Christian it is not prudent to skip this. You don't have anything that isn't already God's anyway.
What are some of your frugal tips? What do you wish you could cut back on?
2. Drink water. You don't have to have cokes, kool-ade, juice, and other flavored beverages. It's cheaper and much healthier to skip the juice. Some people even skip coffee.
3. Use cash instead of plastic. There are people who use plastic but pay it off each month because the plastic offers benefits, like a percentage back, or points toward goodies. Credit card companies do this because they understand the behavior mentioned in this post. Be sure that you're not making it worth their while to give you those bennies. Do the math carefully (the link explains some info you should know to make a fully informed decision).
4. You know how a stitch in time saves nine? If you can sew or iron on patches to the inside knees of little boys jeans, the knees just might last more than one boy.
5. Make it from scratch. You would be surprised at the things you can make yourself.
6. Use baking soda instead of shampoo. While you're at it, clean your face with oil
.
7. We finally worked out a home-made dishwaster soap recipe that we really like. It's cheaper than storebought, and it works just as well, and in many cases, better.
8. Recognize the difference between self-improvement and spending. Many of us seek the first through the latter.
9. Change your thinking and your attitudes about what is necessary, fair, what you deserve. The most important frugal tool you can have is not the income you bring in, but the way you think about what you need and what you want- your own mindset and attitude.
10. tithe. If you're a Christian it is not prudent to skip this. You don't have anything that isn't already God's anyway.
What are some of your frugal tips? What do you wish you could cut back on?
I really liked what you said about making things from scratch and tithing. All of your tips were great n fact! WE don't use cash but a cash card. I rarely ever have cash and it saves me so much. Whenever I can't look down into my wallet and see money then I know that I have to mind my p's and Q's. Come by my blog sometime. Blessings.
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ReplyDeleteAwesome tips! I think staying away from things that make you want to buy stuff is important too. It seems whenever I'm on Pinterest I just want more STUFF! And Shannon, you're absolutely right - my mom cut her 4 boys' hair and we saved tons!
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