Reply #11: Depends on what level you need, these were mine for a while. [View All]

[Festivito]

Instead of coupons I bought the sale come-ons from the weekly store circulars, checking and buying on the day the next weeks circular(s) would arrive.

Consider you have to save extra if a store is far. $.50 per mile is about right now since most of us underestimate distance when we think we are saving.

Keep an ice chest in the trunk.

Haggle with CC companies.

If you pay your bills late or every other month, increase each payment to the next 10 or 100 dollars higher which will leave you with a small positive balance so when you go two months without they won't be as mad.

Buy name-brand sodapop only when it hits $1/6pack or LESS. Store on basement floor. Or, quit the sugar fizz altogether.

Find hole-in-the-wall restarants. The food is better, cheaper, and bigger. Take leftovers home and reheat it in the next day or maybe two. Ice chest!

Take your own pop in the ice chest. Just buy the fast-food sandwich instead of the dealy-meal. Water is a better life choice, but we all maintain some bad habits.

Buy your bad habits ONLY at the good price. Do without for a few days until the price returns.

Heat/Cool only part of your house. (Won't work if you have kids.)

Use a fan to blow hot air out of your attic at night so the AC won't have to work so hard during the day.

I have a side porch that can heat the house in spring and fall, then closed off each night.

Don't water a lawn. Let it learn to grow roots.

Garage sales are good as long as you are not a pack rat personality without sufficient will.

That's it for now.