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Default What are currently your best saving tips ?

Food SnobŪ wrote:
On May 14, 4:28 am, pete wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2010 18:44:58 -0700 (PDT), Eric wrote:
What are currently your best saving tips you recommend and also
practice, relating
to how you make your money go much further than it used to, whether
it's for
food - weekly living expenses, home and financial investment, etc.

Consume less - don't buy so much food just to throw half of it away


That's good advice.

Turn the heating down - wear a sweater, put another blanket on the bed


Or on a hot day, turn off the AC and post to the NG buck naked.

dump the TV subscription - you don't watch most of it anyway


I've never paid for TV.

lose the smartphone - should be obvious


Don't have one of those either.

don't have kids - probably the biggest single saving you'll ever make


Or have only one.

walk - if you're able-bodied, anything less than a mile should be on foot


When there's time and the weather is nice. Bicycle too.

cancel the gym subscription - you probably never even went once


We get a free one, and I still don't go much.

use gas for heating - turn off the elctric fires


We do that too.

don't wash your clothes after 1 wearing - saves power and they'll last longer


But they get smelly.

use a laptop, not a desktop PC - less power hungry and hibernates better


The screen is too small.

--Bryan


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