We take no vacations and go camping instead. Use coupons like crazy and match with stores sales to maximize savings. I’m Doing Swagbucks now to help with Christmas or other things that I can buy with the amazon gift cards I trade my swagbucks for.
Installed wood stove ( saved way over 1000 bucks this winter on the propane bill ) and get free wood from the local farmers with fallen trees.
2 of our Vehicles are paid off and on one there is a super ridiculous small loan.
Shopped for better insurance on property and vehicles.
Get movies and books from the library instead of cable or going to movies.
Have DIAL UP < GAG > instead of more expensive high speed.
Rarely eat out.
Pay extra extra on existing cards.
Cut wayyyyyyyy down on Christmas and birthdays.
Eat a lot of meat that we’ve harvested.
Will plant a garden this year and I hope that I can start canning some of it.
Clean out house and closets and sell stuff on craigslist that is not useful or needed ( and occasionally on FeePay too ).
Re-use the water bottles from the 24 packs of water bought from the store. Just refill them once or twice with our tap water.
Go to garage sales and flea markets and salvation army on half off days and to the goodwill as well ~
Save the pop and beer cans to take to recycler once or twice a year or as often as needed.
Paid off the tractor quickly once Ovomit got in.
Use garlic & brewers yeast tabs for flea/tick med instead of buying that expensive stuff from the vet. OMG the amount of $ I’ve saved and besides, it’s a natural instead of a poisonous chemical I’m putting on my dogs.
Have my vet mix up heart worm med ( ivomectin solution ) instead of the heart guard pills. Have saved a gob there too~
Drink store brand pop instead of name brand. Saves gobs there too.
I’ve been told that I’m so tight ( as in tight WAD ) that I squeek when I go down the grocery isles LOLOL.
Cut off some options on my land line.
I think that’s close to it.....
hope some of this helps someone.
As far as the land line is concerned, I went all the way down to nothing but the phone. It costs about $10/month. I added long distance and local toll calls through a 3rd party provider (one who is affiliated with a pro-life org and donates a percentage of their profits to them). That costs between 3 and 12/month.
I have to have a cell phone for work since I travel a lot.