Comments on: What’s the easiest frugal thing you do?

By: Moi

Moi — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:39:13 +0000

I do a lot of these things too!
One other thing we do is freeze leftovers into meal sized portions and once every week or two we each choose a meal from the freezer – a lot of those leftovers would otherwise have beeen (eventually) thrown out. We’ve noticed a reduction in our grocery spending since we began this.

By: Stacey Williams Dunse

Stacey Williams Dunse — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:57:14 +0000

We use cloth napkins for every meal. Most days, we use the same ones all day (breakfast and supper). We are a family of 5 so we have at least 2 loads of laundry per day. It doesn’t take much to add the cloth napkins to the load :)
saves lots on paper napkins which we used to spend $5-10 per month on :)
plus, we’re never “out” of napkins at a key moment

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By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:34:22 +0000

The easiest frugal think I did was convince my boss to let me work from home a couple days a week. Saves on gas, lunch, and STRESS!

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By: rocketc

rocketc — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:37:29 +0000

This isn’t for everyone – but, we don’t drink or smoke. Very easy on the wallet.

By: Lynnae

Lynnae — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:48:22 +0000

You guys are all really great! Look for a post with tips from the readers sometime next week! There’s a lot of good stuff here!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:09:37 +0000

There are a few things that are easy for me in regards to being frugal ..

1) Bringing lunch to work. I work a graveyard shift alone and can’t leave, very occasionally I will order a pizza but I have gotten much better about that.

2) Use my PayPal Debit card to pay for everything and get 1% cash back instead of my banks debit card. My credit is not good enough(EEK!) to get a credit card with better rewards, so this is great in that situation.

3) Some people may not get any use out of this or agree with it, but I am a smoker and was spending outrageous amounts of money on cigarettes per month(more than $100). All things considered, I still enjoy smoking and did not want to quite. I instead started packing my own cigarettes. Box of empty cigarette tubes with filters is only $3, a 6oz Tin of tobacco ranges anywhere from $7-$15. My brand is $12. That is enough to make a carton(10 packs, or 200 cigarettes) for $15. The initial investment of a tube injector was only $7 and it’s lasted almost 2 years now. Bonus effects? I smoke less than I used to, instead of almost a carton a week i now go a month with about a carton and a half. Also the tobacco tastes much better in my opinion.

I am always on the lookout for new ways to be frugal too. I love posts like this that are laced with ideas =)

By: Hilda

Hilda — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:53:32 +0000

My easiest frugal thing to do is NOT going to the salon to get a manicure, pedicure and eyebrow wax. On rare occassions where I want color on my nails or shape/’clean’ my eyebrows, I just do it myself.

I’m saving a lot compared to my co-workers who goes to the salon every couple of weeks to get French tips, pedicure, wax, etc to the tune of at least $40 a pop. Let’s see, that’s $40 x 2 (a month) x 12 (in a year) = $960 savings a year! That’s almost 25% of the maximum contribution to a Roth IRA one can make for 2007.

By: boomeyers

boomeyers — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:00:33 +0000

I loved reading the Tightwad Gazette series of books. This was the best help to me to find encouragement and “black belt” tightwaddery.

The most obvious tip is EAT AT HOME! Even if you have to spend a little more at the grocery store to make it more “resturanty”. It is worth it!

Plan your trips! Save on the gas!

At this point, I paid $4.00 for a gallon of milk yesterday. Buying a cow??? A thought??